The Pickled Cucumber

Hi, I’m Joshua Rigsby

I’m a writer and a bookstore owner. I enjoy tautologies.

ABOUT THIS WEBSITE

Y Pickles, Tho?

A fair question. I write about writing and books and life and 19th century tea clippers. None of that is particularly related to briny vegetables. I just like the idea that a pickled cucumber is a pickle. I enjoy the backhanded humor of it. I like to fuck with people. I’m not sure what to tell you.

Things I’ve Written

Pretty Good Books

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How to Make Money Through Freelance Writing: Finding Your Niche

Joshua Rigsby

August 29, 2013

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 […] Continue Reading →
How getting your child to sleep on a plane is not unlike passing through the stages of grief

Joshua Rigsby

July 9, 2013

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 […] Continue Reading →
Learn to Get Burned: Overcoming Your Fear of Rejection

Joshua Rigsby

June 20, 2013

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 […] Continue Reading →
Why The Book is Better Than The Movie

Joshua Rigsby

June 17, 2013

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, […] Continue Reading →