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Writing

Do You Write Memoir or Self-Help? Life at the Inflection Point

by Joel Friedlander on May 6, 2013 · 28 comments

Writer’s Tools: Moving Up From the iPad to a MacBookAir

by Joel Friedlander on April 24, 2013 · 26 comments

Why Even a Novelist Should Know How to Write Strong Copy

by Joel Friedlander on February 6, 2013 · 11 comments

Book Design, Internet Marketing and the Nature of Human Consciousness

by Joel Friedlander on January 28, 2013 · 10 comments

6 Winning Ideas for Self-Publishers Straight from “Downton Abbey”

by Joel Friedlander on January 7, 2013 · 8 comments

3 Ways to Supercharge Your Writing This Year

by Joel Friedlander on January 4, 2013 · 19 comments

Manuscript Critiques—A Help or a Hindrance?

by Joel Friedlander on December 14, 2012 · 26 comments

3 More Ways Google Supercharges Your Searches

by Joel Friedlander on September 24, 2012 · 13 comments

Storytelling is Us

by Joel Friedlander on August 20, 2012 · 25 comments

10 Quick Tips to Get Your Manuscript Ready for Publication

by Joel Friedlander on June 25, 2012 · 22 comments

Video: Dan Blank of We Grow Media on Challenges for Authors

by Joel Friedlander on January 4, 2012 · 6 comments

Dear Author: Deciding on a Voice

by Joel Friedlander on December 15, 2011 · 7 comments

Giving Thanks, Yet Again

by Joel Friedlander on November 23, 2011 · 5 comments

15 Things You Probably Don’t Know About Me

by Joel Friedlander on November 3, 2011 · 23 comments

Book Designer Travel Day

by Joel Friedlander on October 14, 2011 · 4 comments

NaNoWriMo: The Right Rite of Passage for Writers

by Joel Friedlander on October 13, 2011 · 32 comments

How to Get Started Mind Mapping Your Book (and everything else)

by Joel Friedlander on October 10, 2011 · 36 comments

Writers: How to Open With a Bang!

by Joel Friedlander on October 5, 2011 · 12 comments

What is a Writer’s MVP?

by Joel Friedlander on September 27, 2011 · 14 comments

Scrivener: The Ultimate Multitool for Writers

by Joel Friedlander on August 10, 2011 · 27 comments

Tom Evans and The Art and Science of Lightbulb Moments [Video]

by Joel Friedlander on July 19, 2011 · 4 comments

7 Distraction-Free Writing Environments for Authors

by Joel Friedlander on July 4, 2011 · 25 comments

My Monospaced Life

by Joel Friedlander on June 8, 2011 · 22 comments

The Completely Backwards Way to Amazing Self-Publishing Success

by Joel Friedlander on June 6, 2011 · 30 comments

Twenty-Five Ways for Writers to Take Action

by Joel Friedlander on June 3, 2011 · 23 comments

Failure, the Road to Success

by Joel Friedlander on May 16, 2011 · 15 comments

How to Get A New Perspective—Move the Furniture

by Joel Friedlander on May 10, 2011 · 9 comments

Blogging and Books: Four Questions from Nina Amir

by Joel Friedlander on April 23, 2011 · 10 comments

Big Sale at Borders San Rafael: The Tribe Moves On

by Joel Friedlander on April 11, 2011 · 13 comments

What I’m Writing Today, Is That What We’ll Be Studying Tomorrow?

by Joel Friedlander on April 1, 2011 · 5 comments

Author Blogging: Guest Posting and an Invitation

by Joel Friedlander on March 21, 2011 · 46 comments

Nonfiction Authors: How You Can Be A Hero To Your Readers

by Joel Friedlander on March 1, 2011 · 0 comments

Competition

by Joel Friedlander on February 26, 2011 · 6 comments

How I’m Going To Book My Blog—And You Can Too

by Joel Friedlander on February 2, 2011 · 45 comments

The Busy Life

by Joel Friedlander on January 29, 2011 · 0 comments

This Week in the Blogs, January 16 – 22, 2011

by Joel Friedlander on January 23, 2011 · 3 comments

The Death of Book Design

by Joel Friedlander on January 22, 2011 · 27 comments

Pitchapalooza Comes to Book Passage in Corte Madera, California

by Joel Friedlander on January 20, 2011 · 5 comments

Can Self-Publishing Lead to a Traditional Publishing Contract?

by Joel Friedlander on January 14, 2011 · 14 comments

Review: The Essential Guide to Getting Your Book Published by Arielle Eckstut and David Henry Sterry

by Joel Friedlander on January 11, 2011 · 2 comments

I Am My Keyboard

by Joel Friedlander on January 8, 2011 · 16 comments

Review: #Book Title Tweet by Roger C. Parker

by Joel Friedlander on December 16, 2010 · 18 comments

The Law of Attraction for Skeptics

by Joel Friedlander on December 11, 2010 · 2 comments

Blogging and Life: Should You Write to a Deadline?

by Joel Friedlander on November 22, 2010 · 19 comments

eHousework

by Joel Friedlander on November 20, 2010 · 4 comments

Distraction

by Joel Friedlander on November 6, 2010 · 12 comments

Writers: What Are You Doing This November?

by Joel Friedlander on October 26, 2010 · 11 comments

10 Writing Exercises to Free Your Mind

by Joel Friedlander on October 23, 2010 · 7 comments

The Big Problem With Blogging Your Book

by Joel Friedlander on October 15, 2010 · 20 comments

1000 Words

by Joel Friedlander on October 9, 2010 · 10 comments

The Writer’s iPad: Apple’s Pages Does Words & Layout

by Joel Friedlander on October 7, 2010 · 9 comments

Writer For iPad by Oliver Reichenstein & Information Architects

by Joel Friedlander on September 27, 2010 · 37 comments

Fish Story

by Joel Friedlander on September 25, 2010 · 1 comment

UNsubscribe Today!

by Joel Friedlander on September 18, 2010 · 7 comments

18 Ways to Think About Creativity

by Joel Friedlander on September 4, 2010 · 13 comments

Now

by Joel Friedlander on July 31, 2010 · 4 comments

Fire

by Joel Friedlander on July 24, 2010 · 2 comments

Self-Publishers Start Here: Authentic Writing

by Joel Friedlander on July 22, 2010 · 4 comments

How Freewriting Saved My Life

by Joel Friedlander on July 20, 2010 · 15 comments

Mr. Green

by Joel Friedlander on July 17, 2010 · 0 comments

How Authors Can Use Article Marketing: Ezinearticles.com Metrics

by Joel Friedlander on July 15, 2010 · 8 comments

But Before That . . .

by Joel Friedlander on July 10, 2010 · 9 comments

Top 5 Reasons Authors Shouldn’t Blog Their Books

by Joel Friedlander on July 9, 2010 · 28 comments

Writing’s Next Frontier: Twitter Fiction

by Joel Friedlander on July 8, 2010 · 10 comments

How Authors Can Use Article Marketing: Linking Strategies

by Joel Friedlander on July 7, 2010 · 5 comments

Dinner

by Joel Friedlander on July 3, 2010 · 5 comments

How Authors Can Sell More Books with Article Marketing: Sourcing Content

by Joel Friedlander on June 28, 2010 · 4 comments

How Self-Publishers Can Sell More Books with Article Marketing, Part 2

by Joel Friedlander on June 23, 2010 · 2 comments

Green Lake

by Joel Friedlander on June 19, 2010 · 3 comments

Rise of the Content Creators

by Joel Friedlander on June 18, 2010 · 10 comments

How to Blog for Authors and Writers from Joanna Penn

by Joel Friedlander on June 17, 2010 · 1 comment

Indie Publishing in Australia: Sally Collings’ Red Hill Publishing

by Joel Friedlander on June 15, 2010 · 9 comments

Expert-ease

by Joel Friedlander on June 12, 2010 · 5 comments

Creative Commons: What Every Self-Publisher Ought to Know

by Joel Friedlander on June 11, 2010 · 17 comments

Creativity—The List of Lists

by Joel Friedlander on June 5, 2010 · 4 comments

Car Writer

by Joel Friedlander on May 29, 2010 · 11 comments

Fair Use, The Rights of Personality, and Unintended Consequences

by Joel Friedlander on May 20, 2010 · 14 comments

Authors Are Blogging, Are You?

by Joel Friedlander on May 17, 2010 · 26 comments

Belief

by Joel Friedlander on May 15, 2010 · 13 comments

Author Platform: New Free Copywriting Resource from Brian Clark

by Joel Friedlander on May 11, 2010 · 3 comments

Creativity

by Joel Friedlander on May 8, 2010 · 5 comments

Scribe: Supercharge Your Search Engine-Oriented Writing

by Joel Friedlander on May 4, 2010 · 7 comments

Into the Heart of Writing: Writing for Your Life by Deena Metzger

by Joel Friedlander on April 29, 2010 · 5 comments

Nonfiction Authors Are Keyword Naturals: Case Study

by Joel Friedlander on April 26, 2010 · 2 comments

Unleash Your Creativity Now: How to Freewrite

by Joel Friedlander on April 20, 2010 · 40 comments

Off-Topic: Ice Cream

by Joel Friedlander on April 10, 2010 · 2 comments

Writing For Your Life: Old Friend From Far Away by Natalie Goldberg

by Joel Friedlander on April 6, 2010 · 12 comments

Off-Topic: Sense Us

by Joel Friedlander on April 3, 2010 · 9 comments

How Nonfiction Self-Publishers Can Become Keyword Naturals

by Joel Friedlander on March 29, 2010 · 22 comments

Off-Topic: 4 x 4s

by Joel Friedlander on March 27, 2010 · 2 comments

Self-Publishing Pro and Con(temptuous)

by Joel Friedlander on March 26, 2010 · 20 comments

TheBookDesigner.com News You Can Use

by Joel Friedlander on March 24, 2010 · 4 comments

Getting Started with Scribd.com

by Joel Friedlander on March 22, 2010 · 14 comments

Off-Topic: Grill Day

by Joel Friedlander on March 20, 2010 · 1 comment

7 Reasons Not to Self-Publish—Is This You?

by Joel Friedlander on March 12, 2010 · 42 comments

How to Copyright Your Book

by Joel Friedlander on March 11, 2010 · 17 comments

A Google Toolbox for Authors

by Joel Friedlander on March 10, 2010 · 15 comments

Off-Topic: Pizza

by Joel Friedlander on March 6, 2010 · 6 comments

Author Platform: What Are You Waiting For?

by Joel Friedlander on March 2, 2010 · 64 comments

7 Scenarios for Successful Self-Publishing

by Joel Friedlander on February 25, 2010 · 13 comments

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