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- Mar 30, 2023
- 5 min
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...
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- Mar 20, 2023
- 4 min
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...
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- Jul 18, 2022
- 2 min
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...
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- Jun 23, 2022
- 2 min
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...
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- Jun 3, 2022
- 4 min
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...
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- Dec 7, 2017
- 4 min
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...