#Chuck Wendig

[keepcalmandwritefiction]

The allure of AI entices those people who fetishize ideas but dismiss the work. They're the people who tell writers, "I'll give you the idea, then you write it, and we'll split the profits." For them, the vision is everything, and the work is just an annoying obstacle. But the WORK is everything. The work is how a thing happens, where it's made, where skill is put to work. AI in creativity is for the people who have no skill, no work, no effort, no ethic. They just want to push a button.

– Chuck Wendig

#fiction #fiction writing #writeblr #the writer life #chuck wendig #anti ai #kcawf original #image description in alt text

[weaver-z]

Since Chuck Wendig, an already-wealthy best-selling author, is behind the suit to destroy the Internet Archive for lending out a handful of copies of his books, I think now is as good a time as any to say that he writes like he's actively being lobotomized at his computer.

Edit: Turns out he's not one of the authors behind the suit; early in the pandemic, he said some anti-digital library stuff, but he's since changed his tune. I retract my first statement (that he's damaging our knowledge base online) but not my second (that he writes with the grace of a pile of dishware shoved down a flight of stairs).

#chuck wendig #fuck this guy forever

[jondoe297]

#chuck wendig #mahmud asrar #patrick gleason #art #writing #no to ai art #no to ai generated images #no to ai generated art #no to ai #anti ai #art news #artists on tumblr #create don't scrape

[avengerscompound]

Steve Rogers & Bucky Barnes

A Year of Marvels: July Infinite Comic (2016)

#marvel #avengers #marveledit #comicedit #steverogersedit #captainamericaedit #buckybarnesedit #wintersoldieredit #steve rogers #captain america #bucky barnes #the winter soldier #i'm tagging this #stucky #even though i don't ship comic stucky #just to spite one specific tumblr user #year of marvels: july infinite comics #616 #marvel comics #chuck wendig #juanan ramirez #avengerscompoundedit

[belethlegwen]

- Chuck Wendig, Gentle Writing Advice

#writing #writing advice #Chuck Wendig #gentle writing advice #book quotes #quote #book quote

[novlr]

“A story is not a vignette. It has a beginning, middle and an end. It is not merely a snapshot in time.” — Chuck Wendig

#chuck wendig #author quotes #writers #creative writing #writing #writing community #writers of tumblr #creative writers #writing inspiration #writeblr #writerblr #writing tips #literature #writing advice #writers on tumblr #author #writer #writers and poets #on writing #writers corner #writing stuff #let's write #helping writers

[flagboi-whotookit]

I'm sure *someone* other than me will enjoy this.

#poll #the stupendium #yttd #your turn to die #quinbobin #quinbobin needs more tumblr content #chuck wendig #/neg

[a-bucky-a-day]

| A YEAR OF MARVELS -JULY- INFINITE COMIC #1

By Chuck Wendig and Juanan Ramirez

#comic panels #bucky barnes 616 #bucky #marvel comics #616 winter soldier #winter soldier 616 #bucky barnes #Juanan Ramirez #chuck wendig #bucky comics #year of marvels

[birchblood]

Emily remembered seeing a documentary once about strange foods, and in it, they spoke of ortolan buntings: tiny, vulnerable songbirds who were captured and put in limitless darkness, their response to which was to gorge themselves on seeds and grain, which doubled their size. The birds were then drowned in brandy, marinated in what killed them, and later roasted and eaten. When eating the sad little brandy-drowned birds, diners covered their heads with cloth so that God could not see their cruelty.

from Black River Orchard, by Chuck Wendig

#black river orchard #chuck wendig #literature quotes

[rustbeltjessie]

Let us speak a little about voice.

There exists a mode of writing advice that is very business-focused, very much about what is your PLATFORM, what is your BRAND, but I’ve always thought that this sounds perfectly awful. Brand is a sigil of ownership that gets burned into a cow’s hide to keep it from straying. Brand is a fence you’re not supposed to leap. But voice? That’s different. That’s about who you are as a writer—how you sound, how the words align, what ideas and compulsions those words convey, it’s the you that slithers in between the punctuation and paragraphs. It’s the vibe the reader gets—the way you get into them, a song they can’t unhear, a fingerprint into their viscera.

—Chuck Wendig, from his introduction to Eric LaRocca’s The Trees Grew Because I Bled There

#quotations #chuck wendig #on writing #voice #branding #typography #eric larocca #the trees grew because i bled there #recently read #this HIT me #i have been thinking/writing so much about brand vs. voice when it comes to my own writing/art this year #and this pretty much sums it up

[booksandpepper]

🎃 a quick stop at the pumpkin patch 🎃

Is this not the most Halloweenie thing to do during spooky season? Of course I couldn’t resist picking up some decorative pumpkins and for pumpkin carving. Who’s going to make a Jack-O-Lantern this year? 🎃

#bookstagram #books #bookworm #booknerd #booknerds #bookworms #bookaholic #booklover #booklove #Reading #bibliophile #reader #reviewer #blogger #The Book of Accidents #Chuck Wendig #pumpkin patch #October #Spooktober #Halloween #pumpkins #pumpkin carving

[inabooknook]

Black River Orchard by Chuck Wendig

This book was so perfectly fall, it's hard to describe how happy it made me. It is a story of a man who finds an heirloom apple tree and decides to graft it onto other apple trees in order to regrow the heirloom varietal. However, in classic Chuck Wendig style, this is not really about apples. This book is about the evil incarnate in humans, and how this apple changes them. The tale was clearly well-researched, and the characters were so interesting and I found myself in many of them as well. As someone who loves the idea of apple-picking and tasting interesting and new apples, but also how they came to be in our country, this book was the perfectly spooky fall / Halloween book to read and at the perfect time as well. I would highly recommend this book to anyone looking for something to scare you just enough this fall!

This ebook was provided by NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

#chuck wendig #reading #books #spooky #halloween #horror #halloweencore #book review #netgalley #black river orchard #book reviews #book recommendations

[the960writers]

#being an author #author events #Chuck Wendig

[epilepticsaints]

#chuck wendig #hachette #internet archive

[sarahhudgins]

I'm spending the evening curled up with a spooky book (Black River Orchard by Chuck Wendig). Will I stay up late to finish these last 200-ish pages? Probably. Will I be made at myself in the morning for not going to bed at a reasonable hour? Most definitely.

#200 pages to go has become my only 100 pages left #I always do this to myself #Happy Halloween to me #probably won't be eating apples for a while #haunted apple book #chuck wendig #black river orchard #booklr #bookworm #reader problems

[semper-legens]

187. The Book of Accidents, by Chuck Wendig

Owned: No, library Page count: 525 My summary: Nate's father is dead. Good, the bastard deserves it - but he's offered Nate the house, for the high price of a single dollar. His empathetic son is struggling in school, his wife needs a space for her art, so why not? But not all is as it seems. Oliver's new friend knows a little more than he should. Maddie's making things she can't explain. And Nate's seeing things in the woods... My rating: 5/5 My commentary:

Sometimes, you can judge a book by its cover. And this book has a particularly good cover. I had no idea what to expect going into The Book of Accidents - vaguely supernatural horror, yes, but beside that I wasn't sure what else. And what I found was a book with bleeding edges; a book about fear and trauma and mundane horror writ large that will stay with me for, doubtless, quite some time. It was interesting, it was thought-provoking, and I just wanted to sink into it and stay there for quite some time. Reader, if any of this sounds appealing to you, I would urge you to get out there and read this book blind before continuing. It's that good a book.

Our main characters are three - Nate, recently moved from the police to Fish and Wildlife after the death of his father; Maddie, an artist who finds herself unconscious of the art she creates; and Oliver, their unusually sensitive and vulnerable son. Their relationships are messy and strong. Nate is unsure of himself and trying his best to be the dad that his father could never be. Maddie is burying secrets and repressing her memories and trying her best to protect herself from her past. Oliver is figuring out who he is, and in the meantime discovering the depths of that question's answer. None of them are perfect, all of them make mistakes, but they're all making smart choices, even if they turn out to be the wrong ones, which is key to my enjoyment of a horror story. Nate coming to terms with the abuses he suffered and trying his hardest to break that cycle of abuse is a really strong story - at every turn he's offered the opportunity to slip and become just like his father, he is stopping and removing himself and not making excuses for bad behaviour. Maddie's the most out of the loop of the supernatural happenings, at least at first, but she manages to keep her head and keep her family together while still dealing with her own stuff. And poor Oliver is a good example of how kind and empathetic characters do not have to be weak. His strength is his big heart, and the way he can literally feel the pain of others.

Speaking of pain, this book is largely about trauma. All of our characters have experienced it in one way or another. Antagonist Jed survived the accident that killed his wife and daughter, an accident he caused. Nate was abused. Maddie was adjacent to serial killings in her community. Jake, our villain, is an alternate version of Oliver from a world where Nate ended up just as abusive as his father. How the different characters respond to trauma is a major theme. Nate keeps his trauma close; Oliver can heal trauma and pain, Maddie blocks it out of her memory, Jake weaponises it, and Jed grieves over it. None are, necessarily, presented as the right or wrong approach (other than Jake). It's how that healing affects the character that matters. Nate finds himself forgiving his father - or, at least, a version of his father who is trying to make amends. Maddie finds her past and uses it to save the day. Meanwhile Jake is consumed by it, and Jed falls apart over the guilt not just of what he did then, but what he does over the course of the narrative.

See, one thing I find interesting here is how the narrative uses metaphor and analogy. There's that element of the metaphor also being literal. Oliver is literally an empath who can experience other people's feelings, as well as being a sensitive kid. Maddie's art is literally a release for her and others. Jake literally uses the titular record of deaths and injuries to bring pain to the land. The serial killer is literally visited by a demon. I kind of like that in horror, bringing the analogy close to the skin while also treating it with a layer of truth. It blurs the line between the real and the supernatural; the heart of the story is still these characters working through their pain and trauma, it's just abstracted with this supernatural overlay. I cannot recommend this book enough, it's a gripping read, and I find myself loving it the more I think about it.

Next, we take to the ocean, with a mermaid, a witch, and the sea.

#The Book of Accidents #Chuck Wendig #bookblr #book blog #book blogger #5