At a March writing workshop with food bloggers in Liz Schmitt’s San Diego home (Photo courtesy of Averie Sunshine of Averie Cooks)
Reinvention keeps me in love with my career. It gives me the ability to shape my work into what interests me. So far I’ve had lots of inventions, since graduating from journalism school decades ago. I’ve been a
- newspaper reporter and editor
- magazine editor
- interactive book editor
- freelance writer
- website designer
- book author
- book collaborator
- manuscript editor
- blogger
- teacher
- speaker.
And I’m just getting started. It’s a privilege to work this way, and I know it. Not everyone gets to go off in new directions.
But you probably do it too as a food writer. Your career might include cooking teacher, caterer, photographer, food stylist, and writer-of-other-content-that-actually-pays-decently (a broad category). Or maybe it’s the other way around: you have a day job, and food writing is [Read more…] about In Love with Reinvention
