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David Biddle: Winding Down with Spring Training: Last Thoughts for Writers

I wrote about baseball’s spring training season in The Story Plant blog a few weeks ago. In that piece, I pointed out that writers don’t...

David Biddle: Spring Training and Working Hard

I spent the best 15 years of my life coaching city rec league baseball teams that my three sons played on. All three eventually became...

Damone Bester: Living for the Weekend

I’m tired of “living for the weekend.” There was a time in my life when I’d fire up the car on Friday after a long work week and scream...

Tom Avitabile: Gun in the Drawer

The audience settles. House lights dim. The curtain opens. The stage lights come up. On the stage, an opulent den. Big cushy leather...

SS Turner: Top 5 lessons I’ve learnt two months into being a published author...

So you’ve finally published your novel after two painstaking years of work, and you set off on the adventure into the unknown of being a...

Peter Seth: "Many Years Later" Great First Lines

The Parks Department in my nice little town in southern California trucks in snow from the nearby San Gabriel Mountains to Memorial Park...

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