R P Gibson
Bio
British writer of history, humour and occasional other stuff. I'll never use a semi-colon and you can't make me. More here - https://linktr.ee/rpgibson
Stories (52/0)
In Writing All You Have Is Your Voice
I've had my writing rejected more times than I care to count. But that's life. Some of those articles and stories, I freely admit, were not up to scratch, some might not have been a good match, and many simply didn’t make it because the publications get so many submissions the bar is extremely high.
By R P Gibson2 years ago in Motivation
Buying a Pet To Fill My Empty Heart
Finding my days were empty and filled with nothing but the excruciating tedium of my own company, I bought a pet. I read online that pets help fulfil human’s base social needs when another person isn’t there to do it. Also, animals require much less effort than people. You can treat animals terrible and they’ll think no worse of you, as long as you keep them fed and rub their bellies once in a while.
By R P Gibson2 years ago in Fiction
That's The Way Your Parents Did It
It was another silly argument, and there had been a lot of those recently. They always seemed to land on your days off, which gave you the impression that she just didn’t like being around you all day. You were helping her make dinner, and you apparently did something wrong.
By R P Gibson2 years ago in Humans
Rain On Your Wedding Day
Jahan fanned himself with a newspaper he found lying on a bench and took his shirt down another button. Out the corner of his eye he caught the headline, the weather warnings: the record breaking heat wave. It was all fairly unnecessary reporting on something like the intensity of the sun, he thought to himself, looking up.
By R P Gibson2 years ago in Fiction
- Top Story - December 2021
Let's Talk Turkey About Substance Dependence
In a modern context, this is something you do to cut something out entirely. We say “going cold turkey”, which means we are giving up some drug or otherwise addictive and harmful substance entirely (like Twitter). Not cutting back, not gradually reducing, not replacing with something else (like Facebook), but stopping altogether.
By R P Gibson2 years ago in FYI
Creative Writing In The Second Person
You open a book nowadays, and 99 times out of 100 it seems the author has taken to a narrative voice and it’s all I, I, I in the first person. When it isn’t, there’s a third person narrative: the all knowing, perhaps unreliable narrator looking on, describing the action to the reader, in the minds of the characters.
By R P Gibson2 years ago in Humans
Fill Your Boots With Anything You Like
To fill one’s boots is to take as much of something as you want, such as when dinner is served at an all you can eat buffet. You’d ‘fill your boots’ (often said as ‘fill yer boots’) and take as much as you want — help yourself — don’t hold back, and so on. Basically, it is both a phrase of encouragement and an invitation to over indulge.
By R P Gibson2 years ago in Education