Text Box: Coffee Houses Text Box: Scouting Text Box: Q: Why do you go to a public place to write? “Writers are a community. We gravitate toward one another . . .” —Musa, a screenwriter Q: How can you think around all these people? “It forces me to focus. I enter a zone. This is my office. I have a few offices in this neighborhood.” Text Box:

I went looking for writers at coffee houses in my neighborhood one morning.  First I stopped at Doma. 

 

The two girls by the window looked friendly so I asked if they were writers,  but they laughed and said no.  (The other shadowy figures didn't respond but I know they heard me.)

They weren't at Ametller. It was empty and the girl working there said she wasn't sure if writers went there or not. 

Text Box: I asked at Jack's . . .

So I walked . . .

Doma

 

on Waverly and Perry Street

Ametller

 

on Waverly and Christopher Street

Jack’s

on 10th  Street

past Waverly and Waverly . . .
Text Box: to Joe’s . . .

. . . it was packed!

The man watching  me take his picture told me not to worry about it.
Oval Callout: don’t worry about it

  The man on the left said

 a writer had just left. . . .

around the corner . . .
Text Box: “Joe's has a vibe . . .” — some guy