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Free Phone Call
Thinking about your food writing? As in, how to make it more real and vivid? Or how to improve the quality of your commitment to it?Contact us to set up a free consultation. We want to talk with you, and 20 of our minutes are yours for the asking.
We also offer free one-hour conference calls for students once a month. That’ll be a whole bunch of us on the phone together, and we will announce the topic far ahead of time. Contact us with topics that will be especially useful to you.
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Rates
Welcome — the doctor is in! We offer a menu of services to writers at all levels. Even if your prose is in fine health, we want to help you notch it up to peak performance. You will appreciate our competitive pricing. If you select two or more classes, we are pleased to make you an introductory offer of a 10% discount.
Food Writing Classes
Our 1-hour classes for groups are offered at $30 per person, and we offer the same classes, one-on-one, with lots of custom features, at $90.
Writing Doctor Services
Our doctoring services, for individual writers only, are priced at $90 per hour. And we’re fast. If you have an especially big project that you want us to price either by the page or by the job, we will be happy to give you an estimate, and we will stick to it. We’re ambitious for you, and will put our shoulders to the wheel to make good things happen.
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Food Writing Prompts: Your Own Desk is a Prompt
by Elatia Harris
So many great writers need their writing rooms to meet precise specs. E.B. White preferred a rough-hewn, minimalist space, with nothing but a typewriter. Virginia Woolf needed lots of green around her, and took some serious kidding about it from her sister. I have noticed that a writing room is almost never gender-neutral, even when the writer is going for a low-key, orderly space that gives little away. There’s something I need, that I’ll give up things I like to get: a window. Looking at photos like the National Trust photo above, of Vita Sackville-West’s writing table at Sissinghurst, I always notice — does the writing table face a window, or a wall?
Which leads me to wonder — how much of a writing prompt is your desk itself? It has four corners, like the ancient Chinese idea of the Universe. Within that space, you can put anything you have that helps. When you look up from your work, are you still seeing with the mind’s eye? What could you arrange to see, physically, that would give you the most of what you needed to keep writing?
Elatia Harris is a writer and consulting editor in Cambridge, Mass. She is most often at work on books and articles about food, wine and travel. Contact her at elatiaharrisATgmailDOTcom or via text at 617-599-7159.
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About The Rambling Epicure
Founded by Jonell Galloway in 2009, The Rambling Epicure started out as a Geneva-based international food chronicle, the first online journal to follow global food trends and news. It gathered the voices of notable food writers and artists from around the world to treat various interests, including a mindful, responsible approach to real food shopping, cooking, and eating, as well as food politics, history, art, literature and philosophy.
Expanding on that work, in May of 2014, The Rambling Epicure joined forces with the Cambridge-based writer and teacher Elatia Harris, chef/owner of Lucy’s Mom’s Cuisine. Jonell and Elatia re-visioned The Rambling Epicure as a hub for food writing in all its forms, with offerings to writers at every level. If you are a professional writer, a student, or a food writer-in-waiting, join our community for the pleasure of it and for our menu of affordable and innovative services to writers.
Check out our food writing discussion board in our Facebook group, The Rambling Epicure, Mastering the Art of Food Writing.
Get access below to our monthly food-writing newsletter, and a quick but satisfying food quote every now and then.
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About Jonell Galloway
About Jonell Galloway
I’m Jonell Galloway. I grew up on Wendell Berry and food straight from a backyard Kentucky garden.
The library and my grandparents’ garden and table were my favorite hangouts as a child, and the rest of my life has evolved around them. My house is like an overflowing library, and the “fruits” of my kitchen delight the palates and noses of our family, neighbors and friends.
I had a vision of promoting the loves of my life, food and writing, so I founded the non-profit website The Rambling Epicure in 2009.
My viewpoints about food and writing are mine and are only influenced by my reading, travels and first-hand knowledge. I believe in real food grown in a caring, loving environment without industrial processing. I don’t promote anything – no restaurants, no writers, no brand names – that I don’t truly believe in.
The people I frequent often have the same philosophy, but that is not exclusive. Many are writers and artists who uphold similar ideals and seek similar goals; many are fellow travelers in life.
If you’d like to become part of my world and share my personal food and travel adventures, you can follow me here:
Facebook LinkedIn Google+ Twitter Culinary Travel Original TRE
Food writing and word mastering have always been my line of work. The Rambling Epicure promotes the best food writing by the best writers in the field. In May 2014, respected writer Elatia Harris and I joined to form a food writing community: The Rambling Epicure, Mastering the Art of Food Writing, where you can follow our very active Facebook discussions, writing, and reflections on writing. Our community is inhabited by people like you who want to become a food writer, who seek to improve their food writing, or who are already professional writers in search of a like-minded community, and others who simply like reading food literature.
Click here to follow us. The Rambling Epicure, Mastering the Art of Food Writing
If you’d like to receive the new Rambling Epicure newsletter focusing on food writing, let us know.
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Writing Doctor Services
Writing Doctor Services
Welcome — the doctor is in! We offer a menu of services to writers at all levels. Even if your prose is in fine health, we want to help you notch it up to peak performance. You will appreciate our competitive pricing.
Our doctoring services, for individual writers only, are priced at $90 per hour. And we’re fast. If you have an especially big project that you want us to price either by the page or by the job, we will be happy to give you an estimate, and we will stick to it. We’re ambitious for you, and will put our shoulders to the wheel to make good things happen.
Individual Doctoring
Your manuscript may only need a little discussion, a light edit, proofreading, and — whoosh! Show it to us, and we will make recommendations, gratis. If in our opinion you need substantive editing, we’ll say so.
Editing
Our copy editors check for content, overall structure, structure within paragraphs, clarity, style and accuracy of research work, and citations. They can also check that your manuscript is in line with in-house style requirements.
Developmental Editing
Writer support for ensuring a manuscript’s structure and broad direction. This may require adjustments in tone and significant adaptation. This is a baggy category — we won’t know what you need until you show us. Ask us for a quote.
Proofreading
We offer full proofreading services for manuscripts that have already been revised and edited. This covers grammar, spelling, punctuation, and other details that may have been overlooked in anticipation of sending out your final manuscript.
Writing
For all ghostwriting and co-authoring projects, please contact us directly.
Translation
We translate menus and other food-related texts from and to all romance languages and English.
Formatting
Formatting of your manuscripts in word processors or on blog platforms when technical requirements prove it to be overwhelming.
Classes
Writing Basics 101, Beginning Writing, Essentials of Food Writing, Editing and Revising Your Own Manuscript, Word Processing 101, How to Start a Food Blog, Building a Social Media Presence/Branding. For experienced writers: Crafting an Online Presence, Ebooks. 101. Click here for more detailed information, or go to the Writing Doctor section. If you have more questions, click here to write us
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University Programs
Food Studies Writing Programs in Universities
Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts U.S.A.
NYU, Steinhardt, New York City, U.S.A.
University of Gastronomic Sciences, Bra, Italy
University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia, graduate certificate in food writing
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The Rambling Epicure History
The Rambling Epicure is a daily international food chronicle, and the first online journal to follow global food trends and news. It was founded by Jonell Galloway (LINK to TRE About) in 2009.
Based in Switzerland, The Rambling Epicure innovated by joining the voices of food writers and artists from around the world to promote a mindful, responsible approach to real food shopping, cooking, and eating. Then as now, big interests around here are food politics, sustainability, safety, history, and the art, literature and philosophies that accompany accompany those concerns.
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Writing Doctor
Writing Doctor: This Pen is for Hire
How’s your prose?
Let me find what ails you, and set you to “writes”. Whether through modest adjustments or major overhauls, let’s get your prose in good health!
You are a food blogger, but your dream is to become a food writer. Writing is a craft, and like all crafts, it takes time and patience to learn. Think of it as a house. You start with a solid foundation, with a frame and a floor, but you have to finish the building so you can house your family.
Working with a writing coach is like adding a roof, insulation and siding to suit the climate you live in. The climate can be compared to the market or the type of writing you aim to do. You have to hone your writing to that market and meet the expectations of publishers and of your audience. Writing free of spelling and grammatical errors is not enough.
The longest part of your “house” is the finishing work: painting, trim, doors, cabinets, etc. “Finishing work” is the long series of steps you follow to produce a final draft. It includes proofreading, developmental editing and copyediting.
Making your way to the perfect final draft is not so different from getting fitted for a tailor-made dress or suit. You choose the fabric, cut, color, etc., but that is just the beginning. Each draft is like a fitting. Some of them will work; others won’t. Just as your dressmaker doesn’t hesitate to take out the basting stitches and start again, you mustn’t hesitate to rework, add, cut, or even throw a draft in the bin. It’s part of the process.
Like most people, you have the basic tools to become a writer. Take the first step and build on your writing skills. Learn how to find your inspiration, find the right time and spot to work, get organized, and set goals. Find your voice and let it speak through your writing. Learn to be kind to yourself as you perfect your craft and to tap into your creativity at any time. Add to your skill base. Become the food writer you’ve always dreamed of becoming.
If you’re a beginning writer or a food blogger, you probably need to polish your writing skills. From proofreading to mentoring, to developmental or copy editing, let me be your Writing Doctor and get you to the finish line!
See also Food Blogging 101: 10 Writing Tips for Beginning Food Writers, How to Start a Food Blog, Why Start a Food or Author Blog?, Food Blogging 101: 10 Steps for Starting a Blog
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