Guest Post on Digital Book Today: Want to Be Productive? Get Thee to a Coffee...
Fueled by caffeine, surrounded by low chatter and the hum of background music, I am at my most productive. Something about being in a coffee shop just makes me want to get to work. I wrote my first...
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Mentoring at DC Shorts
For the second year, I’m going to be a screenwriting mentor at DC Shorts Mentors. I’ve been a judge for the DC Shorts Screenwriting Competition, won the Film DC screenplay competition and interviewed...
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The Up Side of Down by Megan McAardle
Megan McArdle has failed. By her own admission, she has failed multiple times, from her love life to her career choices. Which makes her the perfect person to write the book on failure. The Up Side of...
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Imperfect Art is Better Than No Art at All
Artomatic, 2008 Artomatic is ten floors of bad art. Held every couple years in an abandoned office building, it’s a multi-week, multimedia arts event held in the Washington, DC area. Artomatic is...
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Tell It Slant: The Unchangeable Spots of Leopards
Literary fiction gets a bad rap. It doesn’t have to be ponderous, inscrutable, unreadable. Literary fiction doesn’t have to mean some doorstop of a book that will be earnestly discussed in quiet voices...
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Defeat Writer’s Block the WordPress Way
If you’re a writer, that first blank page can be daunting. The blinking cursor awaits. What do you have to say? Do you really have what it takes to write a whole book? Yet, the same writer, when put in...
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How to Write a Screenplay: DC Shorts Mentors
I was honored to be a mentor for DC Shorts Mentors, a four-week long workshop on how to write, produce and market films. Each weekend brings a different set of mentors on how to write a script, work...
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Savage Harvest: Among the Cannibals
Carl Hoffman, author of Savage Harvest Humans were made to eat like Paleolithic hunter-gatherers, not farmers. – Chris Kresser, Your Personal Paleo Code Americans are in love with the Stone Age. They...
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Five Places to Write in Washington, DC
Kogod Courtyard at the National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC. If you want to truly write a book, and not just live out some Eat, Pray, Love fantasy, then you need to go to a boring place. That’s...
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Coffeeneuring #1: Peet’s!
Dark roast coffee with my bike and the L Street cycletrack in the background. Coffeeneuring 1: Peet’s (17th and L) Date: October 4, 2014 Distance: Five miles Coffeeneuring has returned! The rules are...
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Next Level Craft at the House of Sweden
InstagramDC recently got a sneak peek at the Next Level Craft exhibit at the House of Sweden in Georgetown. This beautiful embassy along the Potomac played host to an exhibit described as: A mythical...
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Writing the Dreaded Query Letter
Marked-up query letter for DRONE CITY. Can you get a literary agent through a query letter? That was the question I had before attending “Writing the Dreaded Query Letter” at the Writer’s Center in...
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Three Ways to Find an Agent
You’re the next J.K. Rowling, slaving away in obscurity somewhere. You’ve written a book that will change the world. How do you find an agent to get your masterpiece published? At the recent DC Author...
View ArticleVictory Party Wins City Paper Fiction Contest
My short story, Victory Party, won First Place in the City Paper’s Fiction Issue. The annual Fiction Issue sought stellar, unpublished short fiction from local writers. Submissions were judged...
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Victory Party: The Story of a Story
Victory Party in the City Paper My short story, Victory Party, won First Place in the City Paper Fiction Issue. Since then, a number of friends have asked me about the story. Where did the idea for...
View ArticleComing Soon – THE SWAMP
When an errant drone crashes into the White House, it triggers a chain of events that leads to the end of the country as we know it. Welcome to THE SWAMP, my new novel mocks the city that America has...
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Write crap for National Novel Writing Month
In your head, it’s perfect, the Great American Novel, a book destined to be a classic. All you have to do is write it down. But an idea is not a real thing. It’s nothing. Saying you have a great idea...
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Letter from Washington: Things Fall Apart
Every morning, I bike by the White House. Blocked off from traffic, the 1600 block of Pennsylvania Avenue is peaceful and calm. Just after dawn, I slowly pedal by, just me, a few joggers and the...
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Relive election night in Victory Party
In my short story Victory Party, which won the City Paper Fiction Competition, I portray a Washington shocked by the Trump victory – and one person who’s happy about the result. Election 2016 was an...
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The Swamp – Get This Funny New DC Novel
My new novel, THE SWAMP, begins with a bad weather forecast. A meteorologist predicts snow for Washington, DC. But snow turns to rain over the city, for it is protected by a layer of hot air. How much...
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