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May 18, 20236 min read
Jon Papernick: Israel's Inspiration Got Me Back to Writing
Whenever I spend time in Israel I always feel like a more fully realized version of myself — healthier, happier, part of a historical...
Mar 30, 20235 min read
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...
Mar 23, 20234 min read
SS Turner: The Truth About Living in Rural Australia
After spending most of our respective adult lives’ travelling the world, my wife and I moved to a small rural community in the Sunshine...
Mar 20, 20234 min read
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...
Dec 5, 202212 min read
SS Turner: The Accent Interpreter
A short story Monty Summers was an expert at telling people what they wanted to hear. And what they almost always wanted to hear were...
Nov 23, 20226 min read
Ken Goldstein: I’m Out on Meta
“Someone has to tell me why we keep allowing social media and our very lives as social creatures to be dictated by the most socially...
Nov 21, 20223 min read
SS Turner: A Day in the Life of this Writer
Some people believe writers are enigmatic figures who spend their days drinking alcohol and taking exotic drugs to enhance their...
Nov 9, 202213 min read
John Adcox: The Sword and the Grail
The Sword and the Grail: Restoring the Forgotten Archetype in Arthurian Myth A few years ago, I wrote an essay for a Jungian journal on...