An LBC native, Mike Guardabascio has been covering Long Beach sports professionally for 13 years, with his work published in dozens of Southern California magazines and newspapers. He's won numerous awards for his writing as well as the CIF Southern Section’s Champion For Character Award, and is the author of three books about Long Beach history.
Elijah Bates, the editor at the college paper JJ and I worked at, used to say that life was like a story and the people we met were like characters. As writers, we should look for the most interesting characters to write about the same way a novelist would populate a book with characters people […]
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