Chuck Wendig

“Leadership can mean defiance.”

— Chuck Wendig

“Easy-peasy, George-and-Weezy.”

— Chuck Wendig

Write til your fingers bleed.

— Chuck Wendig

Enter the story as late as you can.

— Chuck Wendig

“The Empire must fall.”

— Chuck Wendig

“A HUG IS LIKE VIOLENCE MADE OF LOVE.”

— Chuck Wendig

“Naughty business, this Empire.”

— Chuck Wendig

“All hail the light, the dark, and the grey.”

— Chuck Wendig

“I would straight up fuck a snowman right now, she says. Just to cool down. - Miriam Black”

— Chuck Wendig

“Creativity needs time. We’re all dying. Fuck stagnation. High-five creation.”

— Chuck Wendig

“Showing it off—and not caring who cared—was a sign of strength. So now she trembles.”

— Chuck Wendig

“Did you just say shrug instead of actually shrugging?”

— Chuck Wendig

“Now she thinks to go at this all by herself: a rogue element.”

— Chuck Wendig

“Put differently, harden the fuck up, soldier. (And beard the fuck on, while we're at it.)”

— Chuck Wendig

“(Lies are like leashes. Tug them just so, and all who believe them will comply.)”

— Chuck Wendig

“Rebellions work. We’ve seen it. We’ve helped make it happen.”

— Chuck Wendig

“Story should be a descent -- the feeling that there is an intense gravity to the narrative that draws you down, down,…

— Chuck Wendig

“competitive exclusion (n) 1. a situation in which one species competes another into extinction.”

— Chuck Wendig

“Vampires are slicker than goose shit on a glass window. Suave. Sultry. I'm neither of those things”

— Chuck Wendig

“Do that and the carbs will only drag you down, make you mentally foggy. Stick with protein while writing. By the way,…

— Chuck Wendig

“It's probably the only attraction in Shartlesburg, Pennsylvania, a town whose name Miriam finds so funny she, well, nearly sharts every time…

— Chuck Wendig

“The Empire needed no new weapons. It built the greatest weapon in the history of the galaxy. Twice. It did not need…

— Chuck Wendig

“Question marks are shaped like hooks for a reason: they will hook the reader and drag them deeper into the story”

— Chuck Wendig

“Things happen in this life. Sometimes they're good things, and sometimes they're bad things. You have to come to terms with the…

— Chuck Wendig

“Most people don't die young, at least not here in America. Tragedy is unavoidable, but in this country, it doesn't usually come…

— Chuck Wendig

“Gotta have a head like a wrecking ball, a spirit like one of them punching clown dummies that always weeble-wobbles back up…

— Chuck Wendig

Writing advice is not the product of an equation. "If you do X, then Y will occur" is false in this instance.…

— Chuck Wendig

“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

“Use the words that live inside your head. And if the words that live inside your head are those of a sentimental…

— Chuck Wendig

“If you're being skewered by a unicorn, the secret is: tell the unicorn he doesn't exist. If you do that, he'll disappear…

— Chuck Wendig

“The shelves had been stripped bare and battered to Hell, as if some super-important Christmas toy release had come and gone and…

— Chuck Wendig

Story matters. Writing is important. Stories make the world go around. Many things begin as words on a page. It matters to…

— Chuck Wendig

Question the Chestnuts. Chestnuts: the new name for boobs? No. NO. Why would you even say that? Get your mind out of…

— Chuck Wendig

“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

Characters exist in a flat line until we challenge them - sometimes they challenge themselves, sometimes they're challenged by other people, by…

— Chuck Wendig

Storytelling is an act of cruelty. We are cruel to our characters because to be kind is to invite boredom, and boredom…

— Chuck Wendig

“Here are the two states in which you may exist: person who writes, or person who does not. If you write: you…

— Chuck Wendig

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

The easiest way to separate yourself from the unformed blobby mass of "aspiring" writers is to a) actually write and b) actually…

— Chuck Wendig

“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