Okay, now for some lodging.

[randomness]

I'm feeling a little overwhelmed by the pile of restaurant business cards and menus in front of me so as a change of pace I'll do a few lodging listings until I get tired of that.

Comments

[whitebird.livejournal.com]

You have been very restaurant busy today. Are you snowed in?

Also, you're an excellent restaurant reviewer, have you tried to go, well, professional at it? If not, why not?

[r-ness.livejournal.com]

You have been very restaurant busy today. Are you snowed in?

Nope. I'm just confronted with an enormous pile of menus and business cards, and feel determined and productive today.

Also, you're an excellent restaurant reviewer, have you tried to go, well, professional at it?

There are at least three reasons why I haven't:

1) There are at least four people on my friends list whose food descriptions I have read who I know write better prose about food than I do. From this I conclude that my food writing, while adequate, isn't any great shakes. (But thank you for the compliment, nonetheless.)

2) I lack focus. Not necessarily the sort of focus that gets me to sit down and write, although I sometimes lack that kind of focus, too. Instead, I'm thinking that I lack geographic or thematic focus. It's all well and fine for me to write these scattershot restaurant posts of places all over the world. But in the real world its more useful to have someone concentrate on a single city, or even a single neighborhood. That focus I lack, and I sense I would find that constraining.

3) Restaurant reviewers don't make a lot of money, except at the high end. Writers in general make crap. And while I like writing these posts, I don't kid myself that I'd make real money if I tried doing this for a living. I'd be glad to sell them, but I doubt I'd make back the cost of the food. :)

So that's why I'm working on my Mandarin, and planning to go to business school. Maybe someday I'll be writing bilingual posts about places I've eaten on expense account. That'd be fun.

Anyway, that's a much longer reply than I think you'd probably expected. :)

[whitebird.livejournal.com]

Whereas I've read more ... lyrical food porn posts, yours appeal to a much broader audience while still being individually interesting and competently detailed.

And there's lots of different venues for reviews, such as travel magazines, which would be more interested in geographical variety.

Just a thought. It's your life, live it the way you want, doing what you want, cause so far from what I've seen, you're pretty darn successful at that already!