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Third Person Press has announced an extended deadline for its next anthology, Unearthed–Volume 3 of The Speculative Elements series. Writers have until the end of February to polish your story. Make sure to read the full guidelines here to improve your chances of acceptance. The stories MUST be speculative and you MUST have some connection [...]
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We here at Third Person Press are thrilled to announce the publication of Airborne, Volume II of The Speculative Elements Series. Third Person Press is an independent publishing venture based in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. Third Person Press, founded by Sherry D. Ramsey, Julie A. Serroul and myself in 2007, is interested in promoting speculative [...]
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Last time, I wrote about the benefits of quantity as a beginning writer. The more you write, the more experience you gain, the more you know, the easier the process becomes. Practice, practice, practice. But, of course, that’s not the whole story. Improvements in quality come mainly from repeated revisions. That doesn’t mean endless revisions. [...]
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Some people don’t want you to know this, but writing is like most things*: the more you do it, the easier it gets. Way back in the 90′s when, for the first time in my life, I decided to take writing seriously, I signed-up for classes. One of my teachers, an assistant professor of literature [...]
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This is a reprint from my creativity zine, The Practically Creative Quarter…with a few changes. While in the process of writing an article about using the non-dominant hand in journaling as a way to reach the R-mind, I had an epiphany. I realized that my icon and ‘short-hand’ talk of R-mindfulness, based on Betty Edwards [...]
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A couple of weeks ago, I posted info about Mike Stackpole’s Chain Story project. Since then, three new boffo stories have come online. Check out: Emerald Guardians, Rigel Ailur – Rigel Ailur’s other stories include “Brigadoon” in the Star Trek anthology Strange New Worlds 10 and (writing as Kris Katzen) “Kaboom, Ka-bye” in the Origins [...]
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In honour of my granddaughter, Cadi who will be five on Wednesday. 2007 — One June day while in Maine, I pick up my two-year-old granddaughter, Acadia, so that her daddy can have a little time alone. He’s her single and sole parent. I live a very long day’s drive away but come as frequently [...]
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Where do story ideas come from? The short answer is: anywhere. Neil Gaiman, on this oft-asked question, writes that he tells people, “I make them up…Out of my head.” But neither of these answers are immediately helpful if your inspiration has dried up or you are a beginning writer who just doesn’t know yet what [...]
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When I became an editor for Third Person Press, I had no idea what a vast improvement being this role would make to my own writing. Poring over dozens of stories in the last few years has honed my ability to spot errors in my work as well as others. If I had one piece [...]
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[singlepic id=7 w=320 h=240 float=left]Getting a writing project to the completed draft stage is delightful, but there’s a downside. If we were visual artists or dancers or actors, we could show off all our hard work. There would be an audience or viewers or, at the very least, we could hang it on the wall [...]
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I have a close friend who has compared herself unfavorably to me in terms of creativity ever since we were girls. According to her, I’m creative and she isn’t. But I never bought it. She’s a elementary school teacher and I’ve seen the way she tackles a challenging situation in her classroom. She goes at [...]
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Take the time to check out successful writer, Mike Stackpole’s newest project. It’s called The Chain Story and combines collaboration, networking and organization to collect an ever-lengthening chain of adventure stories from a burgeoning list of talented writers. The stories are virtually linked by virtue of being ‘told’ to the assembled at The Wanderer’s Club, [...]
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