Three Minute Thoughts is Open for Submission
A Brief Message from the New Editor in Chief
As of 05/03/23, “Three Minute Thoughts” transitioned into the “Thought Thinkers” publication. For updated guidelines, click here.
Hey there! I wanted to briefly address everyone and introduce myself as the new owner of the Three Minute Thoughts publication.
Three Minute Thoughts is a varied publication and there are few subjects that are off-limits entirely. That said, please no graphic sex/violence, cryptocurrency or articles about Medium itself and how much we’re making through it. Income is not a suitable discussion for the dinner table! Didn’t your mom teach you anything?
Even though Three Minute Thoughts is the name of our publication, your four, five and six minute thoughts are more than welcome! We’d hate to exclude any of your deeper, longer thoughts just for taking more time to communicate. Where’s the fun in that? Hell, give us your nine minute thoughts!
What’s most important is that we publish pieces that people would want to read. That’s not so complicated, right? Although I guess that’s sort of subjective.
Anyway! I think most of us can agree that each of our pieces should be shooting to offer something original. They should be novel, creative and provide something genuine. Robot-written listicles about achieving happiness can find another home.
Additionally, edit your work. I promise you I feel like an asshole when I need to put on my grammar nazi hat. I take no pleasure in telling people that words in titles need to be capitalized. But not all of them! The rules of English can be a little confusing. I may or may not have looked up whether the word “be” needed to be capitalized last week, I admit it. It does.
So edit your work. Use Grammarly. Ask your friends for proof reads. Look up on google if certain words need to be capitalized. Learn that semicolons have defined functions; they are not just cool-looking sentence ornaments. Writing is a growing process and at the end of the day, it should always be fun. But we can all improve as writers by shooting for a certain level of excellence and creativity in the material we publish.
So without further ado: submissions are now open!
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!
Okay, now that I got that out of the way… who am I you ask? Who will be filling the role that Gideon 6ix✍️ so kindly bestowed upon me?
Well, My name is Ben Ulansey. I’m a 26 year old writer from Philadelphia. For a little more about myself, feel free to read this bio I posted!
You know what costs just over 3/5 of a gum ball per day? Supporting the aspiring writer whose article you just finished! Additionally, by the powers vested in me, I’ll grant you unlimited access to the work of all the writers on this platform. All you have to do is sign up through this link here! Can you spare the equivalent of just over 3/5 of one gum ball per day? 🧐
