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Food Writing Competition

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Food Writing Contest

We are seeking food-related fiction and non-fiction entries for our First Annual Food Writing Competition. We want to highlight what can be vividly done in very few words. You have wanted to try your hand at the greatest possible concision, have you not? This is your chance to be rewarded for that. Winners will be published on Mastering the Art of Food Writing, and qualify to compete for inclusion in the first annual Food Writers to Keep an Eye On 2015 eBook we plan to publish in 2016.

Entries should be a maximum of 500 words, and may treat any food-related subject. This covers the full spectrum of food and travel writing: memoirs; short stories; reviews; poems; travelogues; essays; guidebooks entries; lifestyle; adventure; destination features; history; and, anthropology. Not sure that’s you? Write us to ask.

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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.

Writing Doctor Services

Published by Jonell Galloway + Friday, August 1, 2014 Permalink 0

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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Food Writing Classes

Classes Offered

The 16 classes below cover a lot of territory. Taught in one-hour units, they speed your path to mastering the most important and challenging aspects of food writing today. Matters of style, content, and being current. More intro coming…

Basics 101

Even though people say you’re a great storyteller, do you feel you let them down when you write rather than talk? It’s no secret — writing confidently and often is key to writing well. Using the grammar and punctuation that editors require for their publications is a supreme confidence builder. This is a “best foot forward” class for writers-in-training who want to arrive on the scene with all the specs.

Beginning Food Writer

Already writing about food, and searching for your truest direction? The scope of food writing is far bigger than it was a decade ago, and you may find what you’re looking for by considering how that expansion applies to you. This course shows you a systematic method for transitioning from general writing to food writing, and teaches you how to find both your voice and the best form for manifesting your gifts. Take this course and follow it up with “Essentials of Food Writing.”

Essentials of Food Writing

Have you decided that food writing is definitely for you? Worthy not only of all your skills, but of your learning some new ones too? This class is for you if you are a committed writer who wants to adapt your voice and style to food writing. There is a strong emphasis her on mapping out a body of work. Not quite ready? Take “Beginning Food Writer” first.

Editing and Revising Your Own Manuscript

As writers, we are often so close to our text that we can no longer see how to perfect it. This class focuses on achieving the crucial editorial distance that allows you to create your best work. You will learn to use technical tools to help you work faster, and to ensure that you send a perfect manuscript to potential editors and publishers. Recommended for writers who also take “Beginning Food Writer” and/or “Essentials of Food Writing.”

Word Processing 101

Word processing skills are essential for almost any profession, and in particular for writers. This class teaches all the basic skills you’ll require in the food writing profession. Recommended to writers who opt for “Editing and Revising Your Own Manuscript.”

How to Start a Food Blog

For food writing students and professional food writers alike, a food blog and online presence are difficult to make headway without. Both will help you build a readership and a platform, which is something publishers and editors take very seriously. It ensures them that you already have a following. This class will guide you through the entire process, from choosing a platform, setting up your blog, maintaining it, and getting the word out to the public through social media and effective search engine optimization.

Social Media without Blogging

Some writers don’t want the mammoth technical difficulties that food blogging entails. This class teaches you how to build a social media presence and a brand, without keeping up a blog. You will be surprised to see yourself commanding an increasingly large following. If you know for a certainty that you don’t want to blog, take this course to find out how not to miss out on that account.

For Experienced Writers — Crafting an Online Presence

Research Methods for Non-academics

How to Conduct an Excellent Interview

How to Write About Food for Kids

When Food Writing Overlaps with Ag Writing

Problems in Wine Writing and How to Avoid Them

Bioscience for Food Writers

Culinary Literacy for Food Writers

Sustainability for Food Writers

Ebook Overview

Now that indie publishing is an unlimited new world, you may not be looking for an agent or a publisher. You may be looking for a profitable niche, or a route to paper publishing that involves building an online platform first. You hold more of the fate of your work in your hands than ever before, and you may want to find out whether the driver’s seat, in e-publishing, is where you want to be. Join this class for an overview of up-to-the-minute realities that will be decisive for you.

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The Rambling Epicure is a food writing community full of resources. Many are free. Join us, and explore them. Through our classes, programs, and one-on-one work with clients, we are a full-service network of support for food writers. Would you like to talk with us about what we could do for you? Say hi, with a brief intro, using the form above, and email us LINK an sample of your work so that we can give you our best estimate.

And, for a good time in good company, join our food writing forum on Facebook at The Rambling Epicure, Mastering the Art of Food Writing. You will make some excellent connections there.