Sarah E. Moffett

[For those that have read Growing Up Moffett, you are familiar with the members of my family. For new readers, allow me to explain that I am inexplicably close to my family, my father fixes, my mother listens, and my siblings and I are best friends. This would be a cheesy Disney movie if it […]

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William Burroughs would have loved where I was last night.
 Sitting on 14th & T Street at Cafe Saint-Ex last night, I was inspired. Maybe it was the ambiance of honking, irritated drivers, the disheveled, swaying Happy Hour participants or the amount of Jim Beam in my “Kentucky ice tea,” but the evening felt like the end […]

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Dear Publisher,
The second book is underway. After months of collecting stories, trips to visit relevant locations, and intense existential soul searching, I have managed to produce a whopping five pages. Granted, most of it is a letter to my mother apologizing for the noodle incident, but the remainder of it is genius.
Why so few pages you […]

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 ”It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything. I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning.”
Thus saith Rainer Maria Rilke. Or in my case, the diversionary tactics from writing book two continue. I am beginning to engage in such productive behavior as drafting a letter to John […]

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It seems that while some writers cannot put two sentences together as they live and breathe, others can do it from their graves. For instance, perhaps you have heard of Monsieur Alexandre Dumas. You know, famous French author, penned The Count of Monte Cristo, The Three Musketeers, and approximately 300 other novels with the assistance […]

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Washington, D.C. was beautiful on Saturday. Serenely gorgeous. The wind kept the trees in constant motion, the heat took a hiatus for the shockingly cool temperatures of 67 degrees, and the world stood in awe as breakfast was, for once, quickly obtained at Mancini’s. It was blissful in light of the previous week’s “joyful” legal […]

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“Who is the greatest story teller you have ever heard?”
Each time this question was asked on book tour, I paused, smiled, and gave a two word response. It was the one question to which I didn’t have to contemplate the answer. When asked for an example of this unknown legend, I liked to quote the […]

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The literary world is buzzing. For once it is not wizards and vampires that are grabbing the columnists and publicists attention, but a fifty-six year old manuscript prosaically dubbed, On the Road: The Original Scroll.

In other words, hi Jack. You’ve been missed.
Yes, yes, I know July was officially Jack Kerouac Awareness Month, or thus saith […]

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“Can’t you organize mud wrestling in the Tidal Basin or something?”  It wasn’t a college co-ed who offered this question up.  No, no, it came from a slightly more respectable source.  My publisher.  Well, sort of.
Let me start at the beginning.  Recently, I’ve been receiving the same questions over and over.  In an effort to […]

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“No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader.  No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.”
~Robert Frost
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