“Writing is easy,” wrote legendary sportswriter Red Smith. “Just sit down at the typewriter and open a vein.” Though most of us no longer sit at typewriters nor face blank pieces of physical paper, there’s nothing more daunting than a blank screen and the notion of putting something meaningful on it. Compound that with the idea of doing that for approximately 200 pages and you begin to realize why a lot of novelists end up…

Looks like you might have an official outlet for your NaNoWriMo book this year. (If you’re not in the know, that’s “National Novel Writing Month,” the popular annual program where folks commit the entire month of November to writing a book from start to finish.) D.C. will be the breeding ground for the winner of this year’s Maureen Egen Writers Exchange Award, issued every year to a poet or fiction writer in a different state,…

What up, DC? Here’s a few last minute big, long, hot, fat content sausages to shove in your mouths. >> Tonight’s cocktail hour talking points: Webb up 4 with 4% undecided, O’Malley and Ehrlich tied, Allen’s people hate bloggers even more than that emo bitchling Jared Leto, and, responding to the self-induced cashiering of his credibility, John Kerry decides there’s no better time to kick off aggressively campaigning for the 2004 Presidential vote than 728…