writing tips

Waging War on Wordiness: Tips for Writing More Powerful Prose

August 7, 2012 By Nancy Baggett 13 Comments

I’m just back from teaching two 30-minute “Writing Lab” how-to sessions at the BlogHer-2012 conference in New York City. About 5,000 bloggers (mostly women) who ...

Ms Grammar Lady’s Writing Rules for Punching Up Your Prose

January 15, 2011 By Nancy Baggett 3 Comments

Scratch the surface of many writers and inside you’ll find a language geek. Lurking within me is Ms Grammar Lady, a closet English teacher yearning to leap out ...

Tips for Writing a Cookbook—Make Recipe Intros Tasty

September 15, 2010 By Nancy Baggett 10 Comments

Drizzling icing over a cake. I'm not the first cookbook author (and won't be the ...

Welcome to KitchenLane! It’s a comfortable place where I create, thoroughly test, and photograph recipes for my cookbooks and blog. All my recipes are original, not adaptations from others. I trained as a pastry chef, so many offerings are desserts and baked goods. Some are also healthful, savory dishes I contribute to healthy eating publications. My recipes are always free of artificial dyes, flavorings, and other iffy additives, which I won’t serve my family—or you! Instead, dishes feature naturally flavorful, colorful ingredients including fresh herbs, berries, edible flowers, and fruits, many from my own suburban garden or local farmers’ markets. Since lots of readers aspire to write cookbooks, I also blog on recipe writing and editing and other helpful publishing how-to info accumulated while authoring nearly 20 well-received cookbooks over many years.