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Thought Thinkers Submission Guidelines
Updated guidelines for the publication
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Thought Thinkers is a varied publication and there are few subjects that are off the table entirely. We don’t particularly care to read erotica or any self-help and earnings advice. Stories written by Chat bots, too, are frowned upon here. If your phrasing looks suspicious, I’ll likely run the piece through an AI detector. Beyond the erotic fiction and the robot-written drivel, though, the floor is yours!
Send us your weirdest stories and your least sensical poems. We want hilarious satire and depressing sob stories. We want to laugh and then cry afterward. Then we want to read some rollercoaster of a memoir about that time you and your Grandma went to Amsterdam. Did you and your Grandma do that? If so, we want to hear about it! We welcome poetry, prose, fiction, memoirs, essays, op-eds, and just about anything you can throw our way!
Becoming a writer for Thought Thinkers
Don’t worry, I won’t make you fill out an application. You can simply comment that you’d like to be added as a writer. Feel free to be inventive, though. The more ingratiating, the more creativity points you earn.
Okay, not really.
Editing and inclusivity
With the rebranding of “Three Minute Thoughts” to “Thought Thinkers,” I’ve decided to rethink some of the submission guidelines for the publication. Mostly, I’ve reconsidered how the editing process will work.
I’ve decided to implement what’s essentially an opt-in system for editing. It seems to be a common sentiment among Medium users that they don’t always enjoy having liberties taken with their work before it’s published. So with that in mind, if you’d like your work edited, simply leave a note on the top of your submitted draft specifying that.
Otherwise, I’ll assume you’d like your work published as is. I’ll give a quick read through for any glaring errors, but beyond that, I’ll try to keep my role as editor minimally invasive and try to keep my role as publisher as expeditious as possible.
One of the most incredible things about Medium is how diverse the community of writers here is. Being so diverse, though, our proficiency in the English language can vary widely. Grammatical conventions and spellings between countries may differ. Additionally, the way that each of us uses Medium may not always be the same as everybody else. Its purpose can even change for us over time as we find our footing as writers.
Many people view Medium in the same way that they view the most high profile of newspapers — publishing only their very best content after weeks of meticulous proofing. Others, though, are simply looking for a place to post their casual blog entries. The variability in what we want from the platform can sometimes make the task of editing into something a little confusing.
I’m not here to step on anyone’s toes, and given the tension that can sometimes arise between the editors and the edited, I’d prefer not to do any toe-stepping unless explicitly requested. If Medium paid editors handsomely for their grammar rigidity, I might feel a little differently. But when it’s no given that editing is welcome or appreciated, I don’t see what value there is in providing the service voluntarily. I’d rather spend the time writing — or doing some serious thought thinking of my own.
With that out of the way, I’ll look forward to reading the thoughts you’ve all been thinking!
P.S. We have a Discord server now:
