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Why Pickles, and also, Why Blog at All?
I can hear you asking. I can hear the incredulity whirring behind your crinkled eyebrows. Why, exactly, would someone restart a blog? A blog? A web-log? You say. Seems a bit old fashioned, doesn’t it? This form of communication peaked about twenty years ago. No flash. No pizzazz. Virality is unlikely. This is not monetizable… Continue Reading →
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How to Make Money Through Freelance Writing: Finding Your Niche
I hope this article gives you a few tools for your writerly tool chest, despite its somewhat uninspiring title. If you are knowledgeable and passionate about a topic, people will pay to read your stuff. Set Your Sites First, you need to assess your expertise. Most people know plenty about at least one topic,… Continue Reading →
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How getting your child to sleep on a plane is not unlike passing through the stages of grief
It starts out pleasant enough. We wake up at 2 freaking 30 in the morning to catch our black eye flight to the other side of the continent where my family is anxiously waiting to meet our bouncing baby girl. A black eye flight is one in which you have to wake up so early… Continue Reading →
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Learn to Get Burned: Overcoming Your Fear of Rejection
If you are serious about this writing thing, you are going to have to show your writing to people. Stop being precious about it. Stop being scared of rejection. Every writer gets rejected. Deal with it. Here’s how: Crawl Rejection is toughest to take when you are getting started. You are probably already doubting your… Continue Reading →
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Why The Book is Better Than The Movie
Inevitably, every time a new film adaptation comes out, people get up in arms about how it’s not like the original book. The characters are vapid, the world is two-dimensional, the plot was watered down, etc. Often, it’s not just reader/movie-goers who are upset, but the authors of the original works themselves. This is understandable.… Continue Reading →
I’m Joshua Rigsby
I like to write about writing, parenting, 19th century tea clipper races, and pickles. Read on.
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Why Pickles, & also Why Blog at All?
A fair question. I’m not really sure the answer. I like the backhanded tautology of it. A pickled cucumber is just a pickle. Not that deep. Just mildly funny. I’m not sure what to tell you.
Joshua Rigsby
Joshua Rigsby runs a bookstore in a small town. He has written for Thrillist, The Los Angeles Review of Books, Southern California Public Radio, and the Atlantic.
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