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Joshua Rigsby is a writer, tea-drinker, and planet 9 enthusiast based in Southern California.
Joshua Rigsby is a writer, tea-drinker, and planet 9 enthusiast based in Southern California.
For someone we claim dislike so much we seem to reference him all the time. In political discussions especially. There is no better way to score cheap points with your base than to draw some kind of tangential connection between your…
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Last week I wrote about how to respond when someone gives your writing a bad review for reasons that have nothing to do with the quality of your work. Basically, once you recognize that your reviewer has personal issues with…
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This is the first in a series of posts about what to do with bad reviews. I welcome your recommendations in the comment section below. IT WILL HAPPEN TO YOU All writers everywhere have gotten bad reviews. Whether it’s…
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I’m researching Berlin in the 1980’s for an upcoming writing project. Many people who grew up after the collapse of the USSR (like myself) are only vaguely aware of the historical context surrounding the Berlin Wall. So, I’ve put together…
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Writing a press release can be intimidating. Google is choked with suggestions on PR templates, formats, press release services, and distribution companies. How are you supposed to know what to do? Someone recently asked me for press release suggestions to…
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At the beginning of last year I wrote a post about how it seems like everyone has an inexplicably strong set of feelings about New Year’s Resolutions. Not much has changed since. Some decry Resolutions as an act of futility…
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If you own or operate a blog in the English-speaking world it’s required by law of all Current & Former Members of the British Empire that you compose a post within the first two (2) weeks of the year to…
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I recently watched the documentary “Jiro Dreams of Sushi.” It’s a great film (available on Netflix). Beautifully shot, well-constructed, nicely edited. I highly recommend it for anyone who loves sushi, Japanese culture, and/or people who take craft seriously. It’s the…
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I finished a large writing project recently. This puppy has taken me years to get through. Lots of rewrites. Lots of frustration. Self doubt. Yada yada. It was done, I felt good about it. I shipped it. Then I got…
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Arguably some of the most dramatic nautical events of the 19th century were the famous “tea clipper races” that pitted merchant companies against one another in a bid to see who could bring tea from China to London the fastest….
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