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Jul 7, 2015

Five travel books that helped me write my own

There is no writing without reading: Without these five books, I might have been able to write my first one, but I would have been missing some major inspiration — not to mention some beautiful examples of writing about place:

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Five travel books that helped me write my own
Five travel books that helped me write my own
Travel

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Jun 6, 2015

How to Survive the Morning After a Bad Review

Imagine your first book is about to be published. Imagine you’ve spent the past three (or four, or ten) years pouring your soul into a manuscript you know isn’t perfect but is the very best you can produce right now. …

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How to Survive the Morning After a Bad Review
How to Survive the Morning After a Bad Review
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May 24, 2015

Once you’ve been to paradise, should you go back?

“It’s a very beautiful place, a magical place. I remember when we were looking for locations with my scenographer…We arrived here and…

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Once you’ve been to paradise, should you go back?
Once you’ve been to paradise, should you go back?
Travel

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Mar 31, 2015

From Blog to Book, Part 6: In Production & in Limbo

What happens in those mysterious months between the day you deliver your manuscript (huzzah!) and publication day? 1. Your sense of completion begins to evaporate when you realize that someone is copy editing your manuscript (focusing on grammar and factual errors). 2. Your sense of completion vanishes altogether when your…

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From Blog to Book, Part 6: In Production & in Limbo
From Blog to Book, Part 6: In Production & in Limbo
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·Mar 13, 2015

From Blog to Book, Part 1: How I Found My Agent

How did I find my agent? The short answer: Belief, persistence, and a willingness to eat a lot of beans. Vague, I know. And not very helpful, either. Let me explain what I mean. About 18 months after I started my blog in Buenos Aires, Taxi Gourmet started to get…

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From Blog to Book, Part 1: How Did You  Find Your Agent?
From Blog to Book, Part 1: How Did You  Find Your Agent?
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Mar 5, 2015

From Blog to Book, Part 2: How I Wrote My Nonfiction Book Proposal

If I’ve learned a single thing over the course of writing my first book, it’s that complacency has no place in the process. It’s a bit like running a marathon over a hilly course. Once you crest the first hill, you have about five seconds to enjoy your triumph until…

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From Blog to Book, Part 2: How I Wrote My Nonfiction Book Proposal
From Blog to Book, Part 2: How I Wrote My Nonfiction Book Proposal
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Feb 26, 2015

From Blog to Book, Part 3: How I Got My Book Deal

By the spring of 2011, four years after I’d started the Taxi Gourmet blog, I’d moved to Berlin, I had a literary agent, a lot of good press, and a book proposal that was all bones and no soul. Short of writing the whole book beforehand, I couldn’t figure out…

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From Blog to Book, Part 3: How I Got My  Book Deal
From Blog to Book, Part 3: How I Got My  Book Deal
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Feb 22, 2015

From Blog to Book, Part 4: How I Wrote My First Draft

This is Part 4 of a 5-part series about how Taxi Gourmet, the food/travel blog I created in 2007, led to Driving Hungry, the book (Pantheon/Random House, 2015). Stage 1: Panic It didn’t take long for the euphoria of signing a book contract to transform into panic and anxiety about…

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From Blog to Book, Part 4: How I Wrote My First Draft (Or, 8 Stages to a Manuscript)
From Blog to Book, Part 4: How I Wrote My First Draft (Or, 8 Stages to a Manuscript)

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Feb 6, 2015

From Blog to Book, Part 5: A Poem is Never Finished — Revising the Manuscript

From Blog to Book, Part 5: A Poem is Never Finished — Revising the Manuscript “A poem is never finished,” wrote W.H. Auden. “It is simply abandoned.” This became my mantra as I went through the process of revising Driving Hungry. I don’t remember when I was forced to…

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From Blog to Book, Part 5: A Poem is Never Finished — Revising the Manuscript
From Blog to Book, Part 5: A Poem is Never Finished — Revising the Manuscript

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Layne Mosler

Layne Mosler

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Author. Writing coach. Born in California, living in Berlin and Bulgaria. https://laynemosler.com

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