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Great stuff, and not just for food writers. I'll be taking this advice.

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Same!

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Y’ALL! I’ve been sitting here for a year and a half without starting my newsletter and these tips are super helpful. Thank you!

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Thanks - very helpful to hear what these expert writers are saying and suggesting. One point I would like to add... If your audience is international, then write your recipes using international measurements, temperatures, terms, etc.

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Thanks for this Jack. I suddenly realised this lately and have started using both metric & US measurements even though I am quite biased and believe the more accurate metric should be the gold standard.

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I am so with you on that Lerato - the whole metric system for cooking seems much more accurate in my opinion...but I do come from a restaurant perspective where accuracy is key when recreating recipes on a daily basis. Plus, I like to explain to my readers that certain ingredients vary a great deal depending on where you are... For example, a cup of flour (assuming people measure it the same way) can weigh 125 grams in America, but a cup of European flour may weigh 140 grams - that's a big difference....and also means a cup is not necessarily the same!

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Going through this program and learning from my fellow Food Fellows was an honor and a privilege--both to learn new strategies and to find that many newsletter writers go through the same struggles!

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So glad to hear this, Scott!

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great advice, I had been doing many of these things but have chosen to take a break and retool so that I can move forward more strongly.

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Thank you once again for lots of useful advise. The one I will definitely follow: create a spreadsheet and plan 3 - 4 months of newsletter content in advance. I sometimes share vegan recipes but consider being vegan a subset of being concerned about the environment, being an animal (or better, ALL beings) lover, being worried about global warming. Which means I can write just about anything... So some planning is a good idea.

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I learned so much from this food intensive and from my fellow writers! What a joy it was to learn from one another.

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I love food...

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This was one of the best and most useful learning experiences I have enjoyed as a writer. Converging with my talented cohorts and being mentored by a diverse pool of writers was really inspiring and beneficial for the growth of my newsletter.

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It was our pleasure, Lerato <3

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Thanks, all, for the booster shot - hearing a diverse suite of methods and approaches was super helpful!

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Wonderful to hear about the variety of writers and their tips, thank you for sharing! 🙌🏽

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THANK YOU for all your great advice!

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I love food! 🤗

A List Of Movies Depicting The Greatness Of Food: A Varied And Delectable Movie Diet!

https://moviewise.substack.com/p/a-list-of-movies-depicting-the-greatness

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I love this quote by Ayscough: "“I think our biggest opportunity, as Substack writers, is to present access to subjects that conventional mass media overlooks, or is ill-adapted to cover. To ask the geeky questions. To get readers excited about the small, the obscure, the hyper-local, the foreign, the rare. This is, by nature, exclusive material.”"

I recently was looking at submitting an essay I had originally written for my Substack for a non-fiction contest. As I read the draft, I was so surprised and delighted by the INTIMACY in its tone, as though it weren't a classic essay but a secret letter shared with close friends. I think Substack has changed my writing more than I ever thought it would be able to -- and I agree with the above one hundred percent. Independence changes your writing in ways BEYOND just giving you permission to write about whatever you want.

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Thanks for sharing I’d be really interested to know if there is a similar fellow or programmer for health writers?

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Thank you so much for all the support and good advice--I'm a newbie food writer, just populating content and beginning to post. And I so appreciate this community!

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