Chuck Wendig Quotes
Remember: a story is not a vignette. It has a beginning, middle and an end. It is not merely a snapshot in time.
You can feel good about failure. Failure means you did something. You finished the story even if it wasn't what you'd hoped. Failure means you're learning. Growing. Doing.
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.
Repeat the mantra: Writing is when I make the words. Editing is when I make them not shitty.
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…
On the worst day of writing, the work is instructive. On the best day, the act is transcendent.
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?
Storytellers think they're writing for the audience. They're writing, in a way, to hurt the audience.
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.
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.
Story should be a descent -- the feeling that there is an intense gravity to the narrative that draws you down, down, down.
Question marks are shaped like hooks for a reason: they will hook the reader and drag them deeper into the story
