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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
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weaver-z · 1 year
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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).
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jondoe297 · 4 months
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avengerscompound · 1 year
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Steve Rogers & Bucky Barnes
A Year of Marvels: July Infinite Comic (2016)
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belethlegwen · 10 months
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- Chuck Wendig, Gentle Writing Advice
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novlr · 19 days
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“A story is not a vignette. It has a beginning, middle and an end. It is not merely a snapshot in time.” — Chuck Wendig
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flagboi-whotookit · 1 month
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I'm sure *someone* other than me will enjoy this.
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a-bucky-a-day · 7 months
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| A YEAR OF MARVELS -JULY- INFINITE COMIC #1
By Chuck Wendig and Juanan Ramirez
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birchblood · 5 months
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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
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rustbeltjessie · 7 months
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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
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thefandomentals · 6 months
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Take a (short) writing break and check out Cat's picks celebrating @nanowrimo 's 25th Anniversary!
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booksandpepper · 2 years
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🎃 a quick stop at the pumpkin patch 🎃
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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? 🎃
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inabooknook · 8 months
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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.
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the960writers · 8 months
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epilepticsaints · 1 year
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sarahhudgins · 6 months
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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.
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