About

I help smart people tell their best stories.

Hi. I’m Chip. I’ve been helping creatives turn their smarts into awesome print, web, radio, and film content for more than two decades.

In college I studied creative writing, literature, art history, painting, and sculpture. I was super fortunate to know and work with Lucille Clifton and Carol Mavor.

In the early 2000’s I founded a dev agency that built custom web-enabled business tools. We worked with companies like O’Neill and Motorola, and education providers like the University of California.

Then I became the Marketing Manager for an elearning startup; and finally was the US Brand Manager for an international training provider. We worked with Microsoft, GE, and HP, among others.

In all of these positions, I wrote web content, ebooks, articles, blog posts, and advertising copy.

And I moderated more than 500 live webinars with SMEs across marketing, advertising, and tech.

I also worked in indie film as an art director, writer, director, and props builder. I worked on projects alongside Alfred Molina, Cicely Tyson, Louise Fletcher, Lauren Bacall, Hayden Panettiere, Katharine Towne, David Arquette, and more.

I sold one screenplay, optioned two more, and consulted on scripts for producers and writers.

My articles on storytelling have been cited or published by Script Magazine, the BlueCat Newsletter, IndieWire, JohnAugust.com, Bleeding Cool, ScriptTips, Scriptchat, Wikipedia, Script Outline, and No Film School.

For two decades, I was a featured creative at CONTACT, an interdisciplinary conference of social and space scientists, writers, and artists to encourage serious, creative speculation about humanity’s future.

Today I’m a freelance writer working from the beautiful Blue Ridge mountains of Virginia. My focus is helping amazing clients create non-fiction and fiction books, screenplays, and scripts for eLearning.

I’ve written hundreds of training courses; written or consulted on screenplays for producers, writers, and game developers; and written six novels, five non-fiction books, and three picture books.

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