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Getting it Write is a collection of some of the author's favorite unpublished (mostly) essays, poems, one-act plays, and humor pieces from his 40-year-plus freelance writing career. Subjects include dogs, lounge singers, hats, baseball, lumber yards, fishing, music, and Celtic lore. The book begins with a short piece about how Metzger more or less stumbled into his writing and teaching careers after a simple misreading of a comment by a Chico State fiction-writing professor, and also includes the very first essay that he wrote for his freshman composition class at Marin Community College. Most of the plays in the book have been performed before live audiences, including for Chico's Blue Room's new-works festival (one won the audience award for best script) and for Chico's Bloomsday festivals, the annual international celebration honoring James Joyce's novel Ulysses. Most of the humor pieces were rejected by stuffy publications such as The New Yorker, with apparently no sense of humor themselves ����. Some of the poems are serious, others playful, including a limerick about the San Francisco Giants and two ""riddle poems.""

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Stephen Metzger has worked as a freelance writer since the early 1980s. He has written numerous travel books, a detective novel, and a memoir and is the co-author of the popular college composition textbook The Writer's Way. In the 1980s and '90s he was a regular contributor to a wide range of skiing, travel, and in-flight magazines. He taught English and journalism at California State University, Chico, from 1980-2010 and composition at Butte Community College from 2010-2018. His daughter Hannah teaches at Inspire School of Arts and Sciences, in Chico, CA, and his daughter Gina teaches fourth grade at Emma Wilson Elementary School, also in Chico. Stephen has two grandchildren, Zoey and Parker, and lives in Chico with his partner, Jan Hill.

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