“If you want to find the way forward, then stop looking for maps and start walking.” — Chuck Wendig Road Copy Share Image
“She treats herself as if she is a divine worm born of sand and stone.” — Chuck Wendig Divine Copy Share Image
“Showing it off—and not caring who cared—was a sign of strength. So now she trembles.” — Chuck Wendig Cared 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
“Creativity needs time. We’re all dying. Fuck stagnation. High-five creation.” — Chuck Wendig Stagnation Copy Share Image
“Now she thinks to go at this all by herself: a rogue element.” — Chuck Wendig Element 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
“Where there’s smoke, there’s usually fire,” Solo says before adding quietly, “Usually an electrical fire near the hyperspace drive, which Chewie always… — Chuck Wendig Fire Copy Share Image
“The thing worth noting with manipulators is, curiously, once you realize what they are, they become strikingly easy to manipulate. —” — Chuck Wendig Manipulate 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
Remember: a story is not a vignette. It has a beginning, middle and an end. It is not merely a snapshot in… — Chuck Wendig Ends 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
“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 Lady 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
“Always quick with the wit. It's your defense, isn't it? Little girl doesn't want the world to know how sad she is,… — Chuck Wendig Little girl 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 Wielding 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 Agents 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 Derivatives Copy Share Image
“Mon Mothma walks among the wreckage, attendants on each side of her: Hostis Ij to her left, and Auxi Kray Korbin on… — Chuck Wendig Republic Soldiers 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 Cannibal 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 Dynamite 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
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
Characters exist in a flat line until we challenge them - sometimes they challenge themselves, sometimes they're challenged by other people, by… — Chuck Wendig Accidents Copy Share Image
“Stories are like wine; they need time. So take the time. This isn’t a hot dog eating contest. You’re not being judged… — Chuck Wendig Creativity 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 Assets Copy Share Image
“Here are the two states in which you may exist: person who writes, or person who does not. If you write: you… — Chuck Wendig Advice Copy Share Image
In my mind, only one inviolable precept exists in terms of being a successful writer: you have to write. The unspoken sub-laws… — Chuck Wendig Carousels Copy Share Image
The easiest way to separate yourself from the unformed blobby mass of "aspiring" writers is to a) actually write and b) actually… — Chuck Wendig Aspiring writers Copy Share Image
“The décor makes Miriam want to dry heave – it's all down-home country fun with a curious fixation on roosters. Katey hangs… — Chuck Wendig Rooster Copy Share Image
“(Lies are like leashes. Tug them just so, and all who believe them will comply.)” — Chuck Wendig Lies Copy Share Image
“Put differently, harden the fuck up, soldier. (And beard the fuck on, while we're at it.)” — Chuck Wendig Harden Fuck Copy Share Image
“Ah. I like my coffee like I like my men. Hot, black, and coming down my throat.” — Chuck Wendig Coffee Copy Share Image
“Rebellions work. We’ve seen it. We’ve helped make it happen.” — Chuck Wendig Revolution Copy Share Image
“(When you believe in magic, it is easy to see all the universe as evidence of it.)” — Chuck Wendig Magic 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
