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Please Write Personal Stories on Your Food Blog

September 4, 2018 by diannejacob 42 Comments

Image for personal stories post.Do you still write personal stories on your food blog? It seems like a subject of great anxiety to food bloggers these days.

When I taught a writing class earlier this year, many food bloggers said they are afraid to write personal stories now. They’ve all read the long, drawn-out posts about cats, children and confessions about depression that end with [Read more…] about Please Write Personal Stories on Your Food Blog

Filed Under: Food Blogging, Writing Tagged With: David Lebovitz, Deborah Perelman, writing good blog posts, writing personal essays

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