Before trying to steal home he will have achieved competence in reaching third. A device like alliteration must be used cautiously. In abundance, it becomes tiresome. Overdone, it interferes with understanding. It will make effective use of alliteration easier to understand if we consider it not so much as the repetition of a letter as the echo of a sound.
Subtle alliteration uses half steps, as in music.
You can avoid it by enlarging your vocabulary, not only in the number of words you have at the tip of your pen, but in the diameter of the words so that you know the many meanings they have. The first word that occurs to you may not be the best word. It may be very good, but a better may present itself when you invite it. Don t, however, allow -the desire for a perfect word to become a passion which interrupts your flow of thought. Get your ideas on paper, and then polish up what you have written.