by Joel Friedlander | Aug 20, 2012 | Self-Publishing, Writing
Author Henning Mankell, writing in the New York Times last year related how he came to live much of the time in Mozambique. Listening to old men sitting on a bench talk, he speculates: It struck me as I listened to those two men that a truer nomination (name) for our...
by Joel Friedlander | Jul 19, 2011 | Interviews, Writing
I had the great pleasure last week to interview Tom Evans @TheBookwright. Tom is an author and a bit of a renaissance man who also creates apps for iOs, consults with authors and has a background in engineering. But I think of Tom as an expert on creativity, and...
by Joel Friedlander | Oct 27, 2010 | The Joel Friedlander Archives
Ed: A slightly different version of this review of one of my favorite books on writing appeared earlier this year on World’s Strongest Librarian. If You Want to Write: A Book About Art, Independence and Spirit was originally published in 1938, and revised in a...
by Joel Friedlander | Oct 23, 2010 | Writing
For two years I wrote with a few other writers every Thursday evening. We were taught, and then continued on our own, with the practice of freewriting. Over the months, it became apparent that to keep out of patterns, to keep our inspiration fresh, we had to use...
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...