Careercow Chuck Wendig / Charles Wendig / TerribleMinds - Terrible author, terrible person, ruined Internet Archive's online library

[AnOminous]

What a fucking faggot he is.

Good luck you soyfaced faggot. Fuck around with the Mouse. Find out what happens.

 

[Monster Energy Drink]

If he wasn't a grifter he could write his own space epic. But it's far easier crapping out more self help books full of easy to swallow, infantilized platitudes for his retarded fans.

 

[Squid Diddler]

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I love how you can tell he's making a soyface even behind the stupid mask.

 

[Boston Brand]

If he wasn't a grifter he could write his own space epic. But it's far easier crapping out more self help books full of easy to swallow, infantilized platitudes for his retarded fans.

I mean... I work in thr industry, I read a few books a week, and if you put a gun to my head, I couldn't name a single one of Wendig's other books without Google. And you never see anything other than the Star Wars stuff at bookstores, even secondhand.

That's probably the other thing that bugs him... man got to lay thr foundation of the new EU for one of the most beloved IPs on Earth... and his career is in the same place as it was before: nowhere.

Only now he's a punchline and a punching bag to half the internet.

 

[Karl der Grosse]

He's written about a dozen books that purport to teach you how to write. Think about that for a moment.

 

[Rakdos92]

He's written about a dozen books that purport to teach you how to write. Think about that for a moment.

"The cobbler's children have no shoes"?

 

[Next Task]

"The cobbler's children have no shoes"?

'Those who can, do. Those who can't, teach.'
The usual follow-up is, 'Those who can't teach, teach gym.' But there's got to be a better way to phrase that for Chuck. If for no other reason than he's not exactly gym material.

 

[The Littlest Shitlord]

He's written about a dozen books that purport to teach you how to write. Think about that for a moment.

It sounds like he's trying to convince himself that he can write more than anyone else at that point. I have some bad news for you about that, Chuck...

 

[AnOminous]

If he wasn't a grifter he could write his own space epic. But it's far easier crapping out more self help books full of easy to swallow, infantilized platitudes for his retarded fans.

If he wrote a book on how to write well, he would just point to the absolute swill he writes and say don't do this.

 

[Newman's Lovechild]

I love how you can tell he's making a soyface even behind the stupid mask.

Let's be grateful for small mercies, that there's a mask there at all to contain the cuckonavirus.

 

[Save the Loli]

He's written about a dozen books that purport to teach you how to write. Think about that for a moment.

Wouldn't be surprised if those are his bestsellers and a quick way to spend a few hours and make a quick thousand bucks. He just slaps "bestselling author Chuck Wendig" on the book jacket and some unsuspecting buyer chooses that writing help book over all the others.

 

[AnOminous]

Wouldn't be surprised if those are his bestsellers and a quick way to spend a few hours and make a quick thousand bucks. He just slaps "bestselling author Chuck Wendig" on the book jacket and some unsuspecting buyer chooses that writing help book over all the others.

It can be ridiculously easy to get a "bestseller" on Amazon just by picking an obscure category.

 

[RomanesEuntDomus]

He's written about a dozen books that purport to teach you how to write. Think about that for a moment.

Dobson liked to share tutorials on how to draw stuff, it's an imbecile thing I guess.

I doubt I'll ever going to suffer through one of those books, but I'd be lying if I said I wasn't wondering just what kind of advice an auther as shitty as this clown would dish out.
You can bet your ass it contains a shitload of his "magical skeleton powered by lightning" tier crap.

 

[Karl der Grosse]

"Toss in a bunch of jarring adjectives and adverbs, that's the key to ing your audience! Maybe toss in some bizarrely sexually-charged scenes with robots and young boys."

 

[Second Missing Primarch]

"Toss in a bunch of jarring adjectives and adverbs, that's the key to ing your audience! Maybe toss in some bizarrely sexually-charged scenes with robots and young boys."

Also, hyphens--lots of hyphens. And sentence fragments. Break up your paragraphs--all of them--into lots of little fragments. Colons: use them--and present tense. It makes things more immediate. More cinematic. Like one of those fancy moving picture shows. Did I mention hyphens?

 

[Karl der Grosse]

All those lovely adjectives weebily-wobbling down the page

 

[AnOminous]

Make up incredibly stupid neologisms like "herkily-jerkily." Make the soy grimace in every publicity picture, people love that shit.

 

[Boston Brand]

Wouldn't be surprised if those are his bestsellers and a quick way to spend a few hours and make a quick thousand bucks. He just slaps "bestselling author Chuck Wendig" on the book jacket and some unsuspecting buyer chooses that writing help book over all the others.

Oddly, that's probably a major reason a ton of these Disney Star Wars authors agreed to these awful contracts, a chance to put "best selling author" over thier next book that sells less than 1k copies nationally.

To pick on an easy target, Rececca Roanhorse, who wrote one of the Rise of Skywalker novels. She largely got a publishing deal because she's a Native American with a couple of Hugo nominations and the former Campbell Award. She pumped out a few really lousy YA novels - essentially post-apocalyptic Twilight where everybody is Native - and they've all sold badly enough her publisher was likely one more dud away from dropping her.

One Star Wars novel later, and SFWA's Native diversity hire buys herself another couple years before her publisher drops her because she can point out technically one of her books sold okay. Only because it had "Star Wars" on the cover, but it buys her another couple years.

One thing the woke crowd in spec fiction don't seem to realize is that all the Hugo Awards and Twitter asspats in the world won't keep your publisher from dropping you if your books don't sell.

Wendig is pretty much the same deal. Some schlub who lucked into being the first cheap hire willing to write under Disney. He was a nobody outside of Twitter and he's a nobody outside of Twitter again.

I am going to see if I can dig up a convention interview he did during these Star Wars books... it was enlightening.

 

[Imago]

Back in September I did a comparison of old SFWA vs. new SFWA. Bottom line, the current generation of writers don't need the money. Success is measured in awards and social standing, not sales numbers.

Rebecca Roanhorse fits the profile perfectly. She was adopted by white parents, had a privileged upbringing, went to Yale and got her JD. The tribe she claims to be from disavows her, but she is married to a Navajo making her a true and honest Native American.

The publishers and agents know what they are getting into. They print 5000 books, ship them to libraries and market her to Lucasfilm and Marvel. Their actual cost is low and in return they get someone they can use to promote their imprint. She gets to go on tour as the native science fiction writer.

None of this would matter, except that the publishing is an increasing closed shop. If you aren't a member of the club you never will be.

I mean... I work in the industry, I read a few books a week, and if you put a gun to my head, I couldn't name a single one of Wendig's other books without Google. And you never see anything other than the Star Wars stuff at bookstores, even secondhand.

That's probably the other thing that bugs him... man got to lay the foundation of the new EU for one of the most beloved IPs on Earth... and his career is in the same place as it was before: nowhere.

Only now he's a punchline and a punching bag to half the internet.

The whole Star Wars story group has turned into this. They were sure that they could create a better Star Wars once they burned down the old franchise. Now while Disney is trying to course correct, I'm seeing memes about a force sensitive rock.

Lucasfilm liked Chuck's work enough that they used his creations in their other properties, I wonder if they promised him more work and money before getting shutdown by Disney. It would be great if he could show an email from a Lucasfilm executive promising him compensation that Disney legal didn't know about. I doubt he could enforce it, but it would be something to show he has a case.

Young writers are told to never work for exposure, but that is what Wendig and his friends did. They took the Disney deal and gave away the ownership of their creations for a chance to play in the Disney sandbox. He got the job because he was willing to get screwed.

 

[Boston Brand]

Back in September I did a comparison of old SFWA vs. new SFWA. Bottom line, the current generation of writers don't need the money. Success is measured in awards and social standing, not sales numbers.

Rebecca Roanhorse fits the profile perfectly. She was adopted by white parents, had a privileged upbringing, went to Yale and got her JD. The tribe she claims to be from disavows her, but she is married to a Navajo making her a true and honest Native American.

The publishers and agents know what they are getting into. They print 5000 books, ship them to libraries and market her to Lucasfilm and Marvel. Their actual cost is low and in return they get someone they can use to promote their imprint. She gets to go on tour as the native science fiction writer.

None of this would matter, except that the publishing is an increasing closed shop. If you aren't a member of the club you never will be.



The whole Star Wars story group has turned into this. They were sure that they could create a better Star Wars once they burned down the old franchise. Now while Disney is trying to course correct, I'm seeing memes about a force sensitive rock.

Lucasfilm liked Chuck's work enough that they used his creations in their other properties, I wonder if they promised him more work and money before getting shutdown by Disney. It would be great if he could show an email from a Lucasfilm executive promising him compensation that Disney legal didn't know about. I doubt he could enforce it, but it would be something to show he has a case.

Young writers are told to never work for exposure, but that is what Wendig and his friends did. They took the Disney deal and gave away the ownership of their creations for a chance to play in the Disney sandbox. He got the job because he was willing to get screwed.

Splendid breakdown, but I would argue the publishers actually DO think this crap will sell... right up until there are several thousand unsold Roanhorse novels they bled money trying to push.

That and the ones who aren't already rich survive off grant money and Patreon. Most of these shmucks are bleeding money faster than thier publishers.

Gotta say its nice to see someone else here who keeps up with the sorry state of the spec fiction industry today.