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Straczynski cut his teeth writing plays, having several produced at Southwestern College and San Diego State University before finally publishing his adaptation of " Snow White " with Performance Publishing.

Several other plays were produced around San Diego, including " The Apprenticeship " for the Marquis Public Theater.

During the late 1970s, Straczynski also became the on-air entertainment reviewer for KSDO-FM and wrote several radio plays before being hired as a scriptwriter for the radio drama Alien Worlds.

He also produced his first television project in San Diego, " Marty Sprinkle " for KPBS-TV as well as worked on the XETV-TV project Disasterpiece Theatre.

While in San Diego he became a journalist for the Los Angeles Times as a special San Diego correspondent and also worked for San Diego Magazine and The San Diego Reader.

In 1981 he landed a contract with Writer's Digest to write a book about scriptwriting.