photo courtesy of practicalowl Yesterday, my MC was walking home from her job, exhausted and worried, when she suddenly decided to climb...

I was surprisingly anxious about beginning, but found it neither too hard nor too easy. Maybe that’s what we call “just right?”...

In case there is anyone out there who doesn’t know, NaNoWriMo stands for National Novel Writing Month. It’s an idea, a concept, a...

Canadians do not say such sentences casually. We say it with the same emotion as someone would say, “I won the lottery!” It stays cold...

I’m speeding along at a rapid, first-draft clip, feeling on top of my writing game, when I find myself rather suddenly up against a wall....

So how do you come up with complex, interesting characters? Get them to talk. Engage them in conversation. Ask them questions not only...

First, Chuck gives us a tool that will check your writing excerpt for readability. It gives an amazing level of detail. You will get a...

According to news stories, Hemingway said he re-wrote the ending of this iconic novel 39 times, but I guess he underestimated. I love...

A writer, an editor and a reader walk into an Establishment Pub[lishing] House. The affronted publisher asks, “What’s the story here?” ...

Saturday, June 30th, Third Person Press released its latest publication. Earth—the ground of our being, the dust from which we come and...

Third Person Press is coming out with Unearthed, Volume 3 of The Speculative Elements Series in late June. In a lead-up to this release,...

Since creativity may be useless, nonsensical, playful, wordless, metaphorical, musical, messy, and so on, the practical brain that serves...

Third Person Press is happy to announce that Volume III of The Speculative Elements Series is in the final stage of production. Our...

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Ramsey, a former lawyer, is a full-time writer whose novel, One’s Aspect to the Sun, won second place in the 28th Annual Atlantic Writing...

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There’s also an open mike and, just so that the three-legged entity that is Third Person Press doesn’t become unstable, I’ve been...

“The list of international award-winning contributors in this issue shows how far our magazine has come,” says Stewart Donovan, Professor...

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