I started food and travel blogging 5 years back, and I
started my personal blog www.mylifemystories.com
10 years back ,so when Blogchatter asked the question “where do you see your
blof 5 years from now?” I was taken aback. I hadn’t thought about ‘taking my
blog’ anywhere. I guess 5 years from now I would still have a blog, or a
website or whatever they are calling it 5 years from now.
And then the guys at blog chatter started asking even
tougher questions, like ‘How do you add value to the lives of your readers?’
and ‘ have you decided on taking up a project on your blog, something that
could potentially change people’s perspectives and things like that?’ and then
the real questions on ‘how influential are you ?’ came in, and they didn’t just
mean the ‘influencer ‘ tag , whereing we calculate how many followers and such
that you have.
The month of December blogchatter wanted us to pick a
‘project ‘ for our blog, and for the longest time , I thought ‘ I blog about food and travel, I write what
I like and I hope my readers like that too, but honestly, how am I adding value
?’
I planned to sit this one out, but then I went back to the
time when I started my food blog. Even though I had been blogging for 5 years
by then, I still found that I had a lot to learn about writing about food, in a
way that it made a connection with my readers. That’s when I had searched and
found my bible of food writing “ will write for food by Dianne Jacob”.
Now, two years back, I wrote to Sameer Malkani of food
bloggers association of India, that I wanted to write an Indian food writing
book, one which explained food writing principles, but with Indian words,
phrases, Indian masalas, and masaledaar writing. I was by then getting quite
tired of the ‘ Food is bae’ kind of phrases, because frankly Indians, don’t use
‘bae’ to describe food, ‘bae’ as in ‘abbae’ is used when someone cuts in front
of your car, and nearly takes the rear view mirror off, that’s when you go , “ Bae ! Andha hai kya ?”
But writing a book, back then seemed a daunting task, and
after an energetic start, I realised that I had bitten off more than I could
chew.
I have recently started re reading parts of “will write for
food” and I decided to try something fun (as well as something that will add
value to my readers readings) .
Have you guys seen the movie, Julie and Julia? It was
originally a blog, which got made into a movie, A girl named Julie, decided to
cook every recipe from Julia Child’s cookbook and blog about her journey.
I have decided to read a hundred Indian food blogs ! Just the way we celebrate Indian cuisine, it
is time now to savour our Indian food writings and encourage our food writers
as well. I also will be sharing food writing tips, and have fun to do exercises
that you can try at home, and on your blogs. You can tag me with
#Indianfoodwriting in my “Let’s write about food “ project .
By the end of this month , I hope all my readers are writing
with more focus and flair, and I can make a small contribution to the community
of food writers and food bloggers in India. End of December I will publish the
entire list of food blogs I have read in the month, so if you want to be on
that list and want me to visit your blog, leave the link of your blog in the
comments below.
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