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by Joel Friedlander on May 8, 2010 5 Comments

Did you ever see the 1996 movie Phenomenon? It starred John Travolta as small-town car mechanic George Malley. Here’s the IMDB.com summary: The main character observes a strange light on his birthday at a bar. The following days he becomes very intelligent and puts the intelligence to good use in his community. When word gets […]

Filed Under: Writing Tagged With: creativity, Duino Elegies, Forrest Whitaker, John Travolta, Kyra Sedgwick, Phenomenon, Rainer Rilke, Writing

Unleash Your Creativity Now: How to Freewrite

by Joel Friedlander on April 20, 2010 80 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 institutional copy for many years. Instructional manuals, sales letters, […]

Filed Under: Social Media, Writing Tagged With: creative writing, creativity, freewriting, Natalie Goldberg, Suzanne Murray, Writing, writing block, writing practice

Self-Publishing Basics: Four Ways to Publish Your Book

by Joel Friedlander on October 13, 2009 37 Comments

Okay, you’ve sweated over your manuscript, you’re finished with your re-writes, and it’s time to leave the dark of the writer’s solitude for the bright wide open world of readers just waiting for your book. But how will you get your book into print? How will you publish? Not so long ago, “getting published” meant […]

Filed Under: Self-Publishing Tagged With: book publishing, cooperative publishing, Self-Publishing, vanity press, Writing

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