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

[Capsaicin Addict]

It's both hilarious and saddening how actual writing advice is lost on this egoistic sped. If you listen to Franzen's advice, and you have a story worth telling, you'll end up with a solid novel that will stand the test of time. If you take Wendig's advice, even if you have a story worth telling, you'll end up with easily disposable dreck that will be very quickly lost to the ages.

A little late here, but I'm amused that Wendig, much like a blind, exceptional squirrel, found the nut. Specifically, point 2.

There is NOTHING wrong with making money writing. Pratchett once joked that any time it bothered him that he hadn't won a Hugo, he'd just remember he had to take an account out at a second bank because he'd filled the first one up. Meanwhile, Larry Correia fucking buys part of a mountain in Utah for a new home after writing an urban fantasy series with a pretty obvious self-insert (that being said, it's nice to see someone else's response to supernatural threats is 'more dakka').

Trust me. Heinlein was absolutely right with the most wonderful words in the English language being, 'Pay to the order of...' (and he started writing to cover debts incurred during an unsuccessful run for office).

 

[Sissy Galvez]

A little late here, but I'm amused that Wendig, much like a blind, exceptional squirrel, found the nut. Specifically, point 2.

There is NOTHING wrong with making money writing. Pratchett once joked that any time it bothered him that he hadn't won a Hugo, he'd just remember he had to take an account out at a second bank because he'd filled the first one up. Meanwhile, Larry Correia fucking buys part of a mountain in Utah for a new home after writing an urban fantasy series with a pretty obvious self-insert (that being said, it's nice to see someone else's response to supernatural threats is 'more dakka').

Trust me. Heinlein was absolutely right with the most wonderful words in the English language being, 'Pay to the order of...' (and he started writing to cover debts incurred during an unsuccessful run for office).

N.K. Jemisin has won three Hugo awards and still runs a Patreon. That should tell you all you need to know about what a joke the Hugos are and that diversity winners are not that popular or successful outside of insular cliques.

 

[RodgerDodger]

A little late here, but I'm amused that Wendig, much like a blind, exceptional squirrel, found the nut. Specifically, point 2.

There is NOTHING wrong with making money writing. Pratchett once joked that any time it bothered him that he hadn't won a Hugo, he'd just remember he had to take an account out at a second bank because he'd filled the first one up. Meanwhile, Larry Correia fucking buys part of a mountain in Utah for a new home after writing an urban fantasy series with a pretty obvious self-insert (that being said, it's nice to see someone else's response to supernatural threats is 'more dakka').

Trust me. Heinlein was absolutely right with the most wonderful words in the English language being, 'Pay to the order of...' (and he started writing to cover debts incurred during an unsuccessful run for office).

For those curious, this is Correia’s wonderfully devastating blog entry on the subject of the Woke (Broke) crowd passing around phony awards while e-begging for rent.

https://monsterhunternation.com/201...ord-forrest-but-its-something-i-can-never-do/

 

[AnOminous]

Speaking of being unable to meme, to no one's surprise Chuck is upset that "alt-right" trolls have been hijacking the so-called "dirtbag left"'s incredibly forced attempt at creating a Woke Pepe via the uncreative use of NHL mascot Gritty.

This soy-faced walking beard thinks after giving the alt-right the power to turn everything Nazi just by using it as a meme that they can take back that power. Tough shit. Doesn't work that way. Gritler will end up a Nazi whether you guys like it or not.

N.K. Jemisin has won three Hugo awards and still runs a Patreon. That should tell you all you need to know about what a joke the Hugos are and that diversity winners are not that popular or successful outside of insular cliques.

It might make sense in the context of something like the Nebulas which are chosen by professionals. Sometimes you will have a "writer's writer" more popular among other writers than the public.

The Hugo is supposed to be a popular award, though, with voting literally open to anyone.

Now it's just the Tor Books self-awards.

For those curious, this is Correia’s wonderfully devastating blog entry on the subject of the Woke (Broke) crowd passing around phony awards while e-begging for rent.

Cold. I guess a pile of cold hard cash soothes the burn of not being woke enough to satisfy professional bitches.

This is another one of those industry "wins" where they win the right to fade into absolute cultural irrelevance.

I'm pretty sure there have been more movies based on the writings of dead white guys like Lovecraft or Phil Dick than wokeshit that exists at the peripheries of genre fiction, read by nobody.

 

[Capsaicin Addict]

Cold. I guess a pile of cold hard cash soothes the burn of not being woke enough to satisfy professional bitches.

This is another one of those industry "wins" where they win the right to fade into absolute cultural irrelevance.

I'm pretty sure there have been more movies based on the writings of dead white guys like Lovecraft or Phil Dick than wokeshit that exists at the peripheries of genre fiction, read by nobody.

Sometimes the best revenge is living well.

 

[AprilRains]

It might make sense in the context of something like the Nebulas which are chosen by professionals. Sometimes you will have a "writer's writer" more popular among other writers than the public.

The Hugo is supposed to be a popular award, though, with voting literally open to anyone.

Now it's just the Tor Books self-awards.

Exactly. I'm resistant to the idea that book awards should be governed by commercial success. We already give out an award on that basis. It's called "money".

There is a place for awards based on literary merit as judged by qualified professionals. The Nebulas fill that role very well. I may not agree with all of their picks, but they rarely cause me to shake my head in astonishment at their stupidity. That's not at all true of the Hugos.

I've had acrimonious conversations with members of the Hugo clique. They are unashamed to state that they are pushing an agenda with their votes. They're vapid narcissists who think that their insipid cliches constitute a worldview worth promoting, and that they're doing good in the world by promoting it by any means. They decry the growth of slates in the Hugos (Sad Puppies, etc.), but also don't think there was a problem those slates were addressing.

It might be interesting to see an actual popularity-based award arise in science fiction and fantasy, but I don't think anyone cares. SJWs did to the Hugos what they do to every institution they infest: crawled inside of it like a hagfish slithering into a dying rockfish, occupied its body, and killed it for any purposes other than their own.

 

[Starscreams Cape]

Meanwhile in Chuck's closet:

Spoiler

https://twitter.com/ChuckWendig/status/1063929078426800130 https://archive.fo/AZoWu
View attachment 596112
Reminder, Chuck is a cuck raising someone else's kid, also 42 years old:
View attachment 596113
Chuck Wendig, Proud "Non-Turd":
View attachment 596114

Brought to you by the guy in those amateur pornhub videos filming his wife getting railed by a dude from Craigslist named Lamont and saying "ooooh you like that don't you...sooooo hot...ooooh yea".

 

[LN 910]

You almost convinced me he actually did that there.

 

[RodgerDodger]

Brought to you by the guy in those amateur pornhub videos filming his wife getting railed by a dude from Craigslist named Lamont and saying "ooooh you like that don't you...sooooo hot...ooooh yea".

Have you looked at Chuck? I honestly think you have it backwards. Chuck is the one getting railed by Lamont from Craigslist while the “wife” watches.

 

[Judge Holden]

Lets compare and contrast.
Tolkien

Built whole new histories and languages from ancient mythology and his own originality solely to enrich the stories he told out of sheer love of the world he created and a desire to share his passion with the readers

Wendig and co

Builds whole new histories and languages from lifetime movies and edgelord tween lingo to screech about how they are the bestest writers ever who overthrow some nebulous eeeeevil bigot conspiracy in creative media and that everybody they dont like is secretly a rape-nazi untermensch

 

[Zaryiu]

Lets compare and contrast.
Tolkien

Built whole new histories and languages from ancient mythology and his own originality solely to enrich the stories he told out of sheer love of the world he created and a desire to share his passion with the readers

Wendig and co

Builds whole new histories and languages from lifetime movies and edgelord tween lingo to screech about how they are the bestest writers ever who overthrow some nebulous eeeeevil bigot conspiracy in creative media and that everybody they dont like is secretly a rape-nazi untermensch

...THEY SHIT ON TOLKIEN? I laugh because Tlkien will remain influencial for decades if not centuries while they are already irrelevant

 

[LordofCringe7206]

...THEY SHIT ON TOLKIEN? I laugh because Tlkien will remain influencial for decades if not centuries while they are already irrelevant

They'll shit on basically any of the greats. These people are so smug and up each others asses to the point that they can't even listen to the idea that they aren't the greatest writers of all time.

If there aren't already tweets out there of them saying it, I'm sure we'll eventually see these people criticize the likes of Twain and Hemingway.

 

[AnOminous]

If there aren't already tweets out there of them saying it, I'm sure we'll eventually see these people criticize the likes of Twain and Hemingway.

Twain said nigger sometimes. Hemingway was a fucking white male, and never mind he fought actual capital-F Fascists.

 

[REGENDarySumanai]

They'll shit on basically any of the greats. These people are so smug and up each others asses to the point that they can't even listen to the idea that they aren't the greatest writers of all time.

If there aren't already tweets out there of them saying it, I'm sure we'll eventually see these people criticize the likes of Twain and Hemingway.

They'll shit on anyone that isn't in their own clique. It's just best to ignore them and telling them to fuck off when they attack you. They'd shit on Alexandre Dumas père, despite the fact that he wrote many influential novels during the 19th century, along with being quarter Haitian from his paternal line.

 

[RomanesEuntDomus]

...THEY SHIT ON TOLKIEN? I laugh because Tlkien will remain influencial for decades if not centuries while they are already irrelevant

Has been a while, but it's most likely still going:
People criticised LotR for being "too white", with the only african-looking people being the Olifant-riders that attack Minas Tirith.
There's art of a "more diverse" cast of characters for LotR with african hobbits, mexican Gondorians and so on. It's every bit as stupid and petty as it sounds.

They'll shit on anyone that isn't in their own clique.

They even and especially shit on people of their own clique if they are successfully accused of wrongthink. SJW is a hive that eats its wounded, cause everyone figures tearing those on top down will allow them to ascend on a stairway of corpses.

 

[Zaryiu]

Has been a while, but it's most likely still going:
People criticised LotR for being "too white", with the only african-looking people being the Olifant-riders that attack Minas Tirith.
There's art of a "more diverse" cast of characters for LotR with african hobbits, mexican Gondorians and so on. It's every bit as stupid and petty as it sounds.


They even and especially shit on people of their own clique if they are successfully accused of wrongthink. SJW is a hive that eats its wounded, cause everyone figures tearing those on top down will allow them to ascend on a stairway of corpses.

Oh yeajh i remember Amazon is doing a LOTR version *shudders*

 

[Zbk3VmLfujjzjxBd43tL]

Has been a while, but it's most likely still going:
People criticised LotR for being "too white", with the only african-looking people being the Olifant-riders that attack Minas Tirith.
There's art of a "more diverse" cast of characters for LotR with african hobbits, mexican Gondorians and so on. It's every bit as stupid and petty as it sounds.

Gondorians can be pretty swarthy though. They're basically Middle-Earth Italians/Romans, so some would look Mexican like some Sicilians do, especially since they live so near the Haradrim who are North Africans/Arabs in appearance. IIRC there were black Haradrim too.

>tfw Tolkien-sperging in a thread full of Star Wars sperging

 

[AnOminous]

They even and especially shit on people of their own clique if they are successfully accused of wrongthink. SJW is a hive that eats its wounded, cause everyone figures tearing those on top down will allow them to ascend on a stairway of corpses.

Instead they're all crabs in a bucket waiting to be chucked in the boiling water.

 

[Adolf Von Merkel]

A question about this cow: How he was signed by Marvel? I know that comics books publisher are pretty incompetent signing and scouting new talents, but did he has contact with other marvel author or did Marvel sign that his writting carrer was solid enought?

 

[AnOminous]

A question about this cow: How he was signed by Marvel? I know that comics books publisher are pretty incompetent signing and scouting new talents, but did he has contact with other marvel author or did Marvel sign that his writting carrer was solid enought?

He started out writing White Wolf shit, a fairly prolific source of woke "talent." He also wrote novels prior to Marvel. They may be better than the dreadful shit that constitutes his recent output, and I would almost assume they had to have been.