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by Jane Friedman

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[Electric Speed] The cream doesn’t always rise

Electric Speed is a biweekly newsletter that shares resources for creative people (since 2009!), brought to you by Jane Friedman. Sign up here. A note from Jane The best quality books are not the ones that typically sell. The most talented writers are not always well known. The worthiest information rarely spreads the farthest. Or: The cream does not necessarily rise to the top. This is a message I repeat across my classes and writings, not to discourage people, but to reassure. It applies to...

1 day ago • 6 min read

Electric Speed is a biweekly newsletter that shares resources for creative people (since 2009!), brought to you by Jane Friedman. Sign up here. A note from Jane One of the best literature classes I ever took was called Shadow Literature. It focused on texts that subtly expressed the Jungian theory of the shadow self, or the parts of ourselves that we find unacceptable (whether emotions, thoughts, or personality traits). While the shadow self isn’t inherently negative, it’s what we repress or...

15 days ago • 5 min read
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Electric Speed is a biweekly newsletter that shares resources for creative people (since 2009!), brought to you by Jane Friedman. Sign up here. A note from Jane I’ve had a trick shoulder for a decade now, the result of a pinched nerve that was never treated properly. Due to a mixture of laziness and hopelessness, I gave up on achieving normalcy. Recently, someone questioned why I wasn’t seeing a therapist for it. So I began reflecting on why I’d given up on healing. When it comes to a few...

29 days ago • 5 min read

Electric Speed is a biweekly newsletter that shares resources for creative people (since 2009!), brought to you by Jane Friedman. Sign up here. A note from Jane One of the best ways to improve any social media experience is to ask more questions. I’m not talking about questions meant to spark emotional responses, boost following, or juice the algorithm. I mean posing one-on-one questions to others posting updates, or posing questions to people who respond to your own updates or material. Even...

about 1 month ago • 5 min read

Electric Speed is a biweekly newsletter that shares resources for creative people (since 2009!), brought to you by Jane Friedman. Sign up here. A note from Jane Recently I met a speaker and writer, Paul, who has a successful email newsletter called Ripples. I loved the story he told me about how his newsletter started. As Paul was building his business, he worked with a consultant who asked how he secured new speaking gigs. Paul didn’t know, but the consultant told him he should figure it...

about 2 months ago • 5 min read

Electric Speed is a biweekly newsletter that shares resources for creative people (since 2009!), brought to you by Jane Friedman. Sign up here. A note from Jane As I wrapped up my undergraduate degree in creative writing in the late 1990s, I decided to apply for a Fulbright. I can’t remember if I was encouraged to apply, or if I sought it out for myself. Either way, I didn’t have the slightest idea what to research or study—but I sure liked the idea of being a Fulbright scholar. Rather than...

2 months ago • 6 min read

Electric Speed is a biweekly newsletter that shares resources for creative people (since 2009!), brought to you by Jane Friedman. Sign up here. A note from Jane Process, not outcome. I am forever looking for new ways to express this sentiment, to help creative people retain their focus and reduce anxiety. If you’re only interested in the outcome and hate the process, that’s quite problematic for a writing career. I recently stumbled on an interview that expresses this beautifully, with the...

3 months ago • 6 min read
Jane Friedman's Electric Speed newsletter

Electric Speed is a biweekly newsletter that shares resources for creative people (since 2009!), brought to you by Jane Friedman. Sign up here. A note from Jane When selling our house in Virginia, we worked with a real estate agent who often shares the following advice: Every once in a while, sleep in the spare bedroom and see what happens. (Or: go inhabit the dormant spaces of your home.) I wish I had followed his guidance. Over the holidays, a guest made the unfortunate discovery that our...

3 months ago • 7 min read
Jane Friedman's Electric Speed newsletter

Electric Speed is a biweekly newsletter that shares resources for creative people (since 2009!), brought to you by Jane Friedman. Sign up here. A note from Jane The older I get, the more I seek out second opinions. Recently I needed to find a new orthodontist to make me a replacement retainer. My usual solution for these problems is a Google search. I browsed orthodontists based on website quality (personal quirk of mine), proximity to my home, and seeming openness to my situation. I thought...

4 months ago • 6 min read
Jane Friedman's Electric Speed newsletter

Electric Speed is a biweekly newsletter that shares resources for creative people (since 2009!), brought to you by Jane Friedman. Sign up here. A note from Jane There’s only one Christmas movie I’m likely to watch every year because it’s the first one I recall from my childhood: The Christmas Carol with George C. Scott. My dad recorded the TV-only special when it aired, then pulled out the VHS tape every Christmas to replay it for me. (Meaning: I will also forever remember these commercial...

4 months ago • 5 min read
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