FAQ

What is the purpose of The Lunch Break Blog?

Reading and Writing! We hope thelunchbreakblog.com becomes a daily respite to get your mind off work and focus on new ideas. Most of all, we hope you enjoy your lunch. You're invited to our table; grab a seat at thelunchbreakblog.com.

We're a professional community designed to enrich the lives of readers and writers, creators and enthusiasts. We believe that an open exchange of ideas is important to our intellectual development as well as necessary for our daily nutrition. We also promote writing as an art form that needs daily practice. Whether it is rhetoric, poetry, personal essays, or short stories, the lunch break blog hopes to be a platform for its appreciation and resurgence.   

Join us to grow in intelligence and share laughter around the metaphysical lunch table.

How did this site get started?

The dream of a lunch table where everyone can share and comment on daily musings, strong opinions, sharp wits, and comical measures is what drives us.

To accommodate our dream, we began a small wordpress blog with only a few members in the beginning of 2009. After a few short months, we were surprised by the large jump in the number of readers and contributors and by the high standard of writing fostered by our site.

A growing readership, combined with the professional nature of the essays and other content, compelled us to leave the limitations of wordpress and to create a unique and worthy web presence that includes you and your contributions.

How do I join?

Sign up for a login name at The Lunch Break Blog! We want you to become a contributor which lets you submit your own posts to be edited and read by our community, enter fun contests, and to participate in our discussions. As the website develops and gains new people and new perspective, thelunchbreakblog.com will offer even more features to its viewers.

Why join?

Lunch time and break time have become sacred in this fast-paced world. The Lunch Break Blog offers the opportunity to continue the types of dialogues that start during a shared meal, a coffee break, or an exchange at the water cooler. Think of us as a home that welcomes creative exchange shared with quality and respect.

You'll be part of an educated, articulate community of open-minded individuals who love to read, write, and comment. Everyone involved on the site will be subscribers, thus insuring the checks and balances of open feedback.

What are the benefits of the website?

• Be part of a culture that, with your help and influence, can grow and evolve to become a widely-known and well-respected worldwide web presence.
• Write to entertain, persuade, and inform for an interested, educated, global audience.
• Enter monthly writing contests for a chance to win prizes
• Read and comment on others' essays and ideas.*
• Promote your products (literary or creative) by linking your essays to other web sites.
• Share your enthusiasm by buying merchandise that celebrates your appetite for thelunchbreakblog.com
• Content will be reviewed by a panel of editors that will ensure substance and style and provide limited proofreading services to maintain a quality site

How to support the site?

You can help us with our mission by supporting the advertisers you see on the site. We also get a small portion of any money you spend on Amazon by connecting and purchasing the products through the link on the page. We have many products to purchase under Zazzle link and a portion of the money will return to the site. Most importantly, if you feel we are performing and satisfying a need, consider giving us a monetary donation. The best way you can serve us is by telling your friends and letting us grow to help enrich the world and the web through thought provoking, humorous, and poignant prose and poetry.   

Who runs the website?

The editors are a team of three professionals in the field of English and Literature. You may have already been introduced to their different personalities and philosophies by reading the many posts from Nick Carraway, James Dugan, and Patrick Edmonds on the site. These three members put most of the time and effort in to making sure thelunchbreakblog.com is up and running for your enjoyment. However, the site can not really function unless each viewer takes an active role in being a reader, writer, commenter and marketer. You are the number one factor in the success of this website!