The Melting Teapot

I'm very excited to be attending an all-day writer's workshop tomorrow at Seattle's beautiful Fairmont Olympic Hotel:  Food Writing for Food Lovers, with Diane Jacob (well-known blogger and author of Will Write for Food).

Tomorrow's Schedule:

Food Writing Basics
The types of food writing
How to edit your own work
The role of "voice"
Using simile and metaphor
Writing exercises

Lunch
by Georgian Room Executive Chef Gavin Stephenson

Interviewing
Exercise in pairs
Extracting the best details for your writing

Food Blogging
Engaging your reader
Getting and leaving comments
How to stand out in a crowd

Cookbooks
Recipe writing
The publishing business

This is a Foodportunity Expression Writing Workshop, put together by Keren Brown, aka Frantic Foodie. It will be the second time I've been to a fun event thanks to the Frantic Foodie blog.  I actually started my Melting Teapot blog because of an event she publicized, the Walrus & Carpenter night time oyster event (see O Frabjous Day or I Am the Walrus to read all about it).

I'm looking forward to finally meeting Keren, and to spending the day immersed in writing.  It's been a few years since I focused on teaching and the profession of writing -- it will be good to get back to it, exploring things from a new, non-academic angle.