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Should I quit my job and write full time?
This question bothers nearly every writer with a regular job and serious ambition. The allure of a life devoted to filling your mind with the world of your characters and […]
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On Watching My Daughter Trying To Walk
It’s something else to watch my kiddo trying to walk. To see the progression from wiggled arms, to an epic, slow-motion, rotisserie roll over, to crawling, to galloping, to […]
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A Quick Guide to Online Writing Gigs
There are good ways to search for online writing work, and there are frustrating ways to search for online writing work. You can quickly find yourself spinning your tires trying […]
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Freelance Writing: Improving Your Chances of Getting Published
By far, the most difficult part of the freelance writing life is finding and winning assignments with editors. Depending on your level of experience, and the size of your rolodex, […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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, […]
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Goaltending: The Path to A Happy Writer Life
If you want to get the most out of your writing life you need to know where you’re going and how to get there. Otherwise you will continue wandering in […]
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How Do You Know If You’re a Writer?
Ah, the question that has plagued humankind since cuneiform was first smudged into clay. It manifests itself into all forms of existential hysteria. Am I really a writer? Does this […]
About Joshua Rigsby
Joshua Rigsby runs an independent bookstore in a small Georgia town. His writing has been featured on Thrillist, Atlas Obscura, Southern California Public Radio, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and The Atlantic.
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