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Today I\\u2019m thrilled to have Herb Freed on the show. Herb started his adult life as an ordained rabbi and became the spiritual leader of Temple Beth Shalom in Lake Mahopac, New York, at the same time producing and directing three shows at the Maidman Playhouse in New York City. Eventually, he resigned his pulpit to become a movie director. Today we\\u2019ll be speaking about his book Bashert, which is out now.

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In this episode Herb and I discuss:

• When you\\u2019re writing based on true events, which elements do you change for the book? Which things do you keep the same? What are some of the considerations that drive these choices?
• Why tell a story as a novel instead of a memoir, if it\\u2019s based on true events? What do you need to consider when you are deciding between telling the absolute truth versus the conceptual Truth?
• Write about things you are passionate about. Write the story you can\\u2019t not tell.
• How screenwriting can shape a novel writer\\u2019s process. What skills transfer over? What aspects don\\u2019t translate?

Plus, his #1 tip for writers.

About the Author

Herb Freed started his adult life as an ordained rabbi and became the spiritual leader of Temple Beth Shalom in Lake Mahopac, New York while producing and directing three shows at the Maidman Playhouse in New York City. Eventually, he resigned his pulpit to become a movie director. He has directed and produced 15 feature films most of which have had psychological, spiritual and/or social themes in spite of their commercial categories. He is best known for Graduation Day, a horror film, and Tomboy, a teenage romp, as well as the psychological drama Haunts, and CHILD2MAN, a story of survival during the Watts riots. You can find out more about Herb Freed at herbfreed.com

Bashert

Would you recognize your soul\\u2019s complement in another? Beyond the bliss of actually finding your soul mate, there is a belief that the universe hinges on predetermined people finding their other half, their bashert, to maintain cosmic balance. In Bashert (Bellrock Press; February 14, 2017) author, screenwriter, director and former rabbi Herb Freed immerses us in the heady intoxication and thunderous losses of what it really means to be bashert.

Dan Sobol and Marion Gladstone meet by chance at a screenwriter\\u2019s event in Los Angeles. He\\u2019s a rabbi turned director known for his cinematic television commercials; she\\u2019s a writer and film editor who is recovering from a tabloid-headline screaming Hollywood divorce. From the moment Marion hears Dan\\u2019s voice, she knows\\u2014and so does he. It\\u2019s bashert.

But when did the course of true love ever run smooth? Dan and Marion are soon partners in business as well as life, traveling the world to create movies. He directs, she writes and edits, and life becomes an amazing adventure\\u2014until Cancun. There, among the ruins of the Mayan civilization, Marion has an eerie premonition that has the potential to change everything.

Drawing upon his own personal experience, Freed spins a tale unflinching in its examination of life, but weaving along the edge of magical realism. From the bright lights of Hollywood to Mexico, Israel, Paris and the dreamy exhilaration of Jamaica, Bashert is a love story about transcending life, loss and the boundaries we mistakenly place on our lives and our hearts.

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