“Creativity needs time. We’re all dying. Fuck stagnation. High-five creation.” — Chuck Wendig Stagnation Copy Share Image
“I would straight up fuck a snowman right now, she says. Just to cool down. - Miriam Black” — Chuck Wendig Dark humor Copy Share Image
“Showing it off—and not caring who cared—was a sign of strength. So now she trembles.” — Chuck Wendig Copy Share Image
“She treats herself as if she is a divine worm born of sand and stone.” — Chuck Wendig Divine Copy Share Image
“If you want to find the way forward, then stop looking for maps and start walking.” — Chuck Wendig Copy Share Image
“Do that and the carbs will only drag you down, make you mentally foggy. Stick with protein while writing. By the way,… — Chuck Wendig Bacon Copy Share Image
“Story should be a descent -- the feeling that there is an intense gravity to the narrative that draws you down, down,… — Chuck Wendig Advice Copy Share Image
“competitive exclusion (n) 1. a situation in which one species competes another into extinction.” — Chuck Wendig Copy Share Image
Remember: a story is not a vignette. It has a beginning, middle and an end. It is not merely a snapshot in… — Chuck Wendig Copy Share Image
“Grade school – elementary and up – is like being dropped in a dunk tank filled with starving piranha. And they never get full.” — Chuck Wendig Education Copy Share Image
“Writers are made -- forged, really, in a kiln of their own madness and insecurities -- over the course of many, many… — Chuck Wendig Insecurities Copy Share Image
You can feel good about failure. Failure means you did something. You finished the story even if it wasn't what you'd hoped.… — Chuck Wendig Failure Copy Share Image
“A lady should be respectful," is all he manages through gritted teeth. He pitches the towel in the corner. Miriam snorts. "That's… — Chuck Wendig Copy Share Image
Writing advice is not the product of an equation. "If you do X, then Y will occur" is false in this instance.… — Chuck Wendig Advice Copy Share Image
“Chewbacca’s back home, looking for his family. Luke’s searching the galaxy for old Jedi teachings. Han Solo’s got nothing to smuggle, nowhere… — Chuck Wendig Copy Share Image
“And oh, could he smell them. It wasn't just the stench of body sweat. It was the rancid odor of human meat.… — Chuck Wendig Copy Share Image
“Dynamite’s not a scalpel. It’s not even a fire axe. It’s precise like a hand grenade. You don’t control an explosion so… — Chuck Wendig Copy Share Image
“Life is equal parts strange and beautiful and horrible, and we’re tossed into it without a map or an instruction guide. Poems… — Chuck Wendig Life Copy Share Image
Write like you write, like you can't help but write, and your voice will become yours and yours alone. It'll take time… — Chuck Wendig Copy Share Image
Read your work out loud. Don't give me that look. Read your work aloud. Don't argue. Don't fight. It will help. I… — Chuck Wendig Copy Share Image
“This city is a keg of cordylleum about to go BOOM. Part of her is proud: This is her operating at a… — Chuck Wendig Copy Share Image
Storytelling is an act of cruelty. We are cruel to our characters because to be kind is to invite boredom, and boredom… — Chuck Wendig Copy Share Image
Question the Chestnuts. Chestnuts: the new name for boobs? No. NO. Why would you even say that? Get your mind out of… — Chuck Wendig Adverbs Copy Share Image
You've got all these characters and yet, you're hovering over one character like a fly over a stinky diaper. Realize that you've… — Chuck Wendig Along for the ride Copy Share Image
“It was his idea, this run. Somehow, the remaining factions of the Empire are still fueling their war effort even months after… — Chuck Wendig History Copy Share Image
“Today is a day of celebration. We have triumphed over villainy and oppression and have given our Alliance—and the galaxy beyond it—a… — Chuck Wendig Celebration Copy Share Image
Writing is the act of creation. Put words on page. Words to sentences, sentences to paragraphs, paragraphs to 7-book epic fantasy cycles… — Chuck Wendig Aesthetic Copy Share Image
“He wasn't supposed to feel this way. He didn't even want to feel the way he did for the dog, for Creampuff--… — Chuck Wendig Dog Copy Share Image
Nobody becomes a writer overnight. Well, I'm sure somebody did, but that person's head probably went all asplodey from paroxysms of joy,… — Chuck Wendig Copy Share Image
“The Rebellion was gone, and a new government grew swiftly—if clumsily—in its place.” — Chuck Wendig New government Copy Share Image
“He’s built like a brick shithouse made of a hundred smaller brick shithouses.” — Chuck Wendig Copy Share Image
“Coffee Fuck you, coffee IS TOO a virtue. Do not deny me this. Do not dare!” — Chuck Wendig Coffee Copy Share Image
“Failure has to be illuminating: an instruction manual written in scar tissue.” — Chuck Wendig Failure Copy Share Image
“This is not a book of writing advice. It’s not here to help make you a better writer. Rather, it’s here to… — Chuck Wendig Book Copy Share Image
