Sharing thoughts in a blog or anywhere in public for that matter is a double edged sword. While spouting your impressions and feelings you run the risk of sounding vain or being misunderstood. Try as you might to be succinct in getting your point across with something you feel is obvious and without need of further explanation- that’s not
always the case for the reader and learned that first hand last week.
Author: alanlake
500 Words #13
500 Words #12
From Page To Heart
An open book with words still warm from reading. That’s the goal here. To publish a manuscript that takes you from page to heart and back. It’s more than writing though. In order for that happen besides luck, it’s understanding how it’s done by developing relationships and connections and marketing and all the other crap I’ve never cared about.
500 words #11
Eclipse
20 stories in and I’ve yet to hear anything like this. Missed an eclipse because I was with my new subject now brother, Hassan- but what he told me was equally significant.
500 Words #10 –
Stomach Full Of Wonderful
In writing about the food that interested me most, that resonates deeper and vibrates at a higher level- it was more home cooked than hip cheffed. Meals in homes not restaurants. Home Cookin’s global course is of its own making, ending up including numerous newly arrived that are now citizens of our world.
500 words #9
Cast of Characters
Hearing peoples’ stories humanizes them. Often their accounts are stranger than fiction. Each chapter is an intimate profile of everyman/everywoman subjects’ lives in addition to some of their prized recipes that they graciously share.
500 words #8
Man Plans
And Gods Laugh
Useful self publishing information from Kickstarter to help independent authors.
500 words #7 –
Jazzfood
Food reminds me of music and I cook like I play. Once I was good enough for other people to ask me about my cooking I coined a term defining it: “Jazzfood” i.e. solid technique coupled with tasteful improvisation.
500 words #6 –
How I Do What I Do
Doing what you love as a career is a pleasure denied to most and the difference between existing and living.
Assorted arts, foods, cultures, music, books and travel nurtured me as a kid. It’s my comfort zone and get my mail there. Being a culinary sherpa, menu bully, non-fiction writing, pattern clashing, funky drummer comes naturally.
500 Words #5 –
Zoom Call Connections
Melissa 1 has an ongoing zoom call amongst her authors every other week and invited me to sit in for an hour of knowledge and support from people in the same situation. So many good ideas, and so much good will I’m writing about it only moments afterward while still fresh in my mind. Smart […]
500 words #4-
Food As Connection
The thought of working extended periods of time out of town haslost its appeal and the day to day reality of running restaurants,hotels or theaters is not one I’m interested in any longer. Notready to retire, in order to utilize 4+ decades of culinaryknowledge I write about food, and cooks in particular. Growing up in […]