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Suzanne Murray

Unleash Your Creativity Now: How to Freewrite

April 20, 2010 31 comments

I started writing as a freshman at SUNY Buffalo quite a while ago. The coolest kids I knew were in English, and the coolest of them all seemed to be writers. That’s where I wanted to be. But once I went to work I wrote only insitutional copy for many years. Instructional manuals, sales letters, [...]

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7 Scenarios for Successful Self-Publishing

February 25, 2010 13 comments

I’ve been having a regular correspondence with my friend and writing instructor Suzanne Murray about the relationship of writers to publishing, and how to best understand the situation they face today. Recently, Suzanne sent me another question: Why would a writer want to self publish? And what kind of work is especially suited to self [...]

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How to Get Out of Your Own Way: Suzanne Murray on Freewriting

February 23, 2010 1 comment

Several years ago I returned to writing after an absence of many years. Hard to believe now, but I had found other channels for creativity over the years—as a designer, a teacher and a cook—but the central importance writing had never diminished. There was only one problem: I didn’t enjoy writing. Oh, I had written [...]

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Dear Suzanne: 7 Things Writers Need to Know Today

February 4, 2010 4 comments

My friend Suzanne Murray leads writing workshops, acts as a creativity coach, and leads literary trips to Ireland. I was fortunate to work with her for over a year. In the near future I’m going to introduce Suzanne to you more formally through an interview, but today I wanted to share some correspondence we had [...]

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