by Joel Friedlander | Sep 4, 2010 | Social Media, Writing
Where do ideas come from? You don’t know? That’s okay, nobody else knows either. But what can we say about creativity? I have 18 thoughts for you. You are absolutely unique, and what you have to offer the world cannot possibly be duplicated by someone...
by Joel Friedlander | Jul 20, 2010 | Social Media, Writing
Freewriting . . . Unimpeded and nonstop writing to a prompt and for a set time, in which you give yourself permission to write “whatever comes” . . . saved my life. Well, it didn’t perform CPR, but it saved my life anyway. My imaginal life. You see,...
by Joel Friedlander | Jul 10, 2010 | Writing
On Saturdays, I often use this space to go off-topic, leave books and publishing behind for a day, and turn my attention in other directions. Enjoy. Today you know me as a blogger and book designer. But before that I worked as the Branch Manager of Mortgage Point, a...
by Joel Friedlander | Jul 9, 2010 | Marketing, Social Media, Writing
Do you think authors should blog their works in progress? I think, in a lot of cases, it’s a really bad idea. Sure, you can write a book from a blog, and there are kinds of books that lend themselves to being assembled in pieces from blog writing. Books you...
by Joel Friedlander | Jun 26, 2010 | Self-Publishing, Social Media
Seth Godin’s got this great idea of “shipping:” getting something out the door, and not just something you’ve done a hundred times before but a genuine effort at producing something new, doing something you haven’t done before. Do-ing....