Calling all food writers … Michael Ruhlman recently conducted an interesting interview with Judith Jones, who edited Julia Child’s Mastering the Art of French Cooking, on the present state of food writing in the U.S. Fascinating stuff. I got to hear Jones speak at a food writing conference at BU last winter. If you’re in …
Oct 31, 2007 Editors, News you can use
Are you the type of person who always has a long list of to-dos? Do you manage to check off items fairly easily, but never feel like you accomplish much despite being “busy”? Or maybe you’re a writer who has a lot of projects on the burners, but you rarely complete them to your satisfaction?
If …
Oct 30, 2007 Cool tools, News you can use, Self improvement
(Reprinted from Writer’s Digest)
by Linda Formichelli
The business article came out great, but I was stuck for an ending. Finally, I hit upon the conclusion: “Follow these tips and boost your bottom line.” Perfect! Snappy, fun, alliterative. Just one problem — I had used that same phrase to end my last five business articles.
My sense of …
Oct 28, 2007 Advice, Observations, Writing
LinkedIn is a professional networking site that works on the “six degrees of separation” principle: Find someone you want to meet, and chances are you know someone who knows that person. You invite friends and colleagues to “link” to you, and then all their contacts are your contacts, too. LinkedIn is free unless you want …
Oct 21, 2007 Cool tools, Networking
I’ve been a subscriber to Marcia Layton Turner’s free monthly e-zine, Become a Six-Figure Writer, since the spring, and I’ve gotten a lot of good tips and advice from it. I rarely recommend e-zines, but this one is really quite useful — and with only one issue a month, you’ll actually look forward to reading …
Oct 19, 2007 Advice, Cool tools, Marketing, Writers
