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Science is trumped by ignorance when the ignorant are given a vote.Chuck Wendig
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We’re here to change the world, not participate in its tedium.Chuck Wendig
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Leadership can mean defiance.Chuck Wendig
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We think the future is robots and hovercars and maybe it’s really here.Chuck Wendig
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Failure is an instruction manual written in scar tissue.Chuck Wendig
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All hail the light, the dark, and the grey.Chuck Wendig
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You can’t be friends with a droid.Chuck Wendig
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Question marks are shaped like hooks for a reason: they will hook the reader and drag them deeper into the storyChuck Wendig
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Here are the two states in which you may exist: person who writes, or person who does not. If you write: you are a writer. If you do not write: you are not. Aspiring is a meaningless null state that romanticizes Not Writing. It’s as ludicrous as saying, “I aspire to pick up that piece of paper that fell on the floor.” Either pick it up or don’t. I don’t want to hear about how your diaper’s full. Take it off or stop talking about it. .Chuck Wendig
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Story should be a descent -- the feeling that there is an intense gravity to the narrative that draws you down, down, down.Chuck Wendig
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Personal opinion time: some of the bravest, strangest, coolest stories right now are being told in the young adult space. It's stuff that doesn't fly by tropes or adhere to rules -- appropriate, perhaps, since young adults tend to flick cigarettes in the eyes of the rules and don't play by social norms as much as adults do.Chuck Wendig
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The writer is editor, marketer, blogger, reader, thinker, designer, publisher, public speaker, budget-maker, contract reader, trouble-shooter, coffee-hound, liver-pickler, shame-farmer, god, devil, gibbering protozoa.Chuck Wendig
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He's heard tales of the Clone Wars -tales spoken by his own father. He knows how war goes. It's not many wars, but just one, drawn out again and again, cut up into slices so it seems more manageable.Chuck Wendig
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All under the pretense of military application.” He pouts. “No pretense about it. Remember, the Internet was a military application. And now look at how it’s changed our culture.Chuck Wendig
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Vampires are slicker than goose shit on a glass window.Chuck Wendig
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Vampires are slicker than goose shit on a glass window. Suave. Sultry. I'm neither of those thingsChuck Wendig
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A HUG IS LIKE VIOLENCE MADE OF LOVE.Chuck Wendig
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She gets on her tippy-toes and kisses him. Long, slow, deep. The kind of kiss where you can feel little pieces of your soul trading places as mouths open and breath mingles.Chuck Wendig
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Storytellers think they're writing for the audience. They're writing, in a way, to hurt the audience.Chuck Wendig
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You’re a raptor who sees all his people as defenseless little flit-wrens–and you’ll save them, if only they give up the fanciful notion that they can lead themselves, that they can protect themselves.” “You understand nothing.” “Meanwhile, ” Sinjir says, really leaning into it now, “your opponent is a woman who wants to give democracy to the entirety of the galaxy. Freedom for all. Oppression for none.” “It’s naïve.” “It may be. But at this point, I’m going to side with her precious naïveté over your authoritarian bluster. .Chuck Wendig
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It starts with my mother…. Boys get fucked up by their fathers, right? That’s why so many tales are really Daddy Issue stories at their core, because men run the world, and men get to tell their stories first. If women told most of the stories, though, then all the best stories would be about Mommy Problems.Chuck Wendig
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That’s why we gotta do good things now. Make good decisions. Try to move the rudder long before the boat ever gets near the iceberg, right?Chuck Wendig
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On the worst day of writing, the work is instructive. On the best day, the act is transcendent.Chuck Wendig
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Where there’s smoke, there’s usually fire, ” Solo says before adding quietly, “Usually an electrical fire near the hyperspace drive, which Chewie always warns me about…Chuck Wendig
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Repeat the mantra: Writing is when I make the words. Editing is when I make them not shitty.Chuck Wendig
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No, I just mean … I’m not into … this.”“ This?” Her scowl deepens and her teeth bare. “AlieChuck Wendig
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Your best authorial self is always one about to ruin the story.Chuck Wendig
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She treats herself as if she is a divine worm born of sand and stone.Chuck Wendig
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The Empire must fall.Chuck Wendig