Layne Mosler·Aug 21, 2024On writing: Contemplation as PreparationCan zooming out bring us closer to our own creativity?
Layne Mosler·Jul 7, 2015Five travel books that helped me write my ownThere 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…
Layne Mosler·Jun 6, 2015How to Survive the Morning After a Bad ReviewImagine 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…A response icon1A response icon1
Layne Mosler·Mar 31, 2015From Blog to Book, Part 6: In Production & in LimboWhat happens in those mysterious months between the day you deliver your manuscript and publication day?
InCuriosity Never Killed the WriterbyLayne Mosler·Mar 13, 2015From Blog to Book, Part 1: How Did You Find Your Agent?The short answer: Belief, persistence, and a willingness to eat a lot of beans.A response icon1A response icon1
Layne Mosler·Mar 5, 2015From Blog to Book, Part 2: How I Wrote My Nonfiction Book ProposalIf I’ve learned a single thing over the course of writing my first book, it’s that complacency has no place in the process.
Layne Mosler·Feb 26, 2015From Blog to Book, Part 3: How I Got My Book DealBy 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…
Layne Mosler·Feb 22, 2015From Blog to Book, Part 4: How I Wrote My First Draft (Or, 8 Stages to a Manuscript)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…
Layne Mosler·Feb 6, 2015From 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.”
