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Every blogger can write. But very few can write really well. That's OK. What it takes to be a great blogger is some knowledge, clarity of thought, and a little practice.
"You write great social media posts and blogs, but still don't get the best feedback from your readers?
No matter how creative and inspired you are, there are always a huge number of posts that cover similar points. How can you become the best one?"
How We Got Started
Like most good stories, Dallas Food Nerd started around a table of wonderful food.
On Valentine's weekend in 2011, two social mediaites (Elysa and Rory) were invited to go on a food tour of five fabulous Dallas dining spots, hosted by a major car brand and local restaurants. The couple spent the day restaurant hopping with several other food bloggers, indulging in chocolates and souffles.
credentials on their virtual resumes, they felt like a food blog was definitely in order. What better way to share their love of food and drinks with others on social media? In that sugar coma filled afternoon, they purchased the Dallas Food Nerd website domain, created a logo and began promoting the new brand among their friends and the local food blogger community.
Sharing Our Passion For Food With Others
While Elysa and Rory founded the blog back in 2011, they quickly grew the group by adding a few friends and acquaintances who also shared a passion of food-related storytelling. You might even know someone like this yourself… those people whose cameras "eat first"! Our group of writers is now about 20 people, mostly living in Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas. (We'll share more on the expansion later.)
As a community of people who share a love for food and storytelling, we review new restaurants and menus, test out kitchen gadgets, write product reviews. We tell our stories by writing blog posts, Tweets, Facebook posts, Instagram posts/stories, and lately, Instagram Reels, too.
Where is blogging taking you? If you are like me you start off targeting a specific niche and then focus all your efforts learning everything you can about the niche. While doing this you also find that an essential step for success as a blogger is communicating your message. You search the blogging sphere to find blogs with high readership; analyzing them to determine how the blog is able to successfully communicate their message. The task is never ending, because attracting and retaining readers is critical.
There are many elements of business writing you need to master before you can call yourself a skillful business writer. No matter what your profession is, you can always use some improvement in this aspect. The following 10 tools will help you start building business writing skills from the basics.
I love our group blogs. Rhobin always comes up with great topics and usually I find them thought provoking, things I may never have considered. This month it's "How has writing rewarded you? What has it cost you?"
ane Green. Writer. Londoner transplanted to America 21 years ago. Mother of six. Former art student. Author of 21 novels and one cookbook. Mostly tired.
When did you first WANT to write a book?
When Freya North wrote Sally and I thought, hang on, I could do that too. I was a journalist on the daily express at the time, and had read Nick Hornby's High Fidelity and realized no-one was doing this for women. Little did I know that Helen Fielding was in her flat a mile away crafting Bridget Jones's Diary.
When did you take a step to start writing?
I was already a journalist. Nick Lloyd left as editor of the express, and the new editor had me writing about giraffes instead of relationships. It was clearly time to make a change. I very stupidly left my job, and gave myself three months to write a book AND get a publishing deal. Miraculously, there was a bidding war for my first book, about two days before that time period was up.
How long did it take you to complete your first book from the first idea to release?
I think a year.
How long did it take you to complete your latest book from the first idea to release?
About three years, but it is historical fiction, set in the sixties in London and Marrakech, and required intensive research, including moving back to London for a bit. Read more.....
Often, movies and television can teach us as much or more about writing technique as books can because their streamlined structure makes it easier to isolate and identify certain writing strategies. Mad Men viewers can learn a great deal about character from watching the show.
Actually, while many might want to believe we are capable of becoming like Shakespeare, inspiration is not the only important factor in becoming an effective essay writer.The conventions of the English language are much more formulaic than many might believe. In fact, writing an effective essay could be just as easy as counting up to five.