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

damian said:
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Wendig being fired lit a fire on the asses of a lot of "professionals" who enjoy shitting on their respective fandoms. One hilarious interaction was a Comicbook.com journo threatening that there would be consequences for Marvel firing Wendig:
https://twitter.com/chasemagnett/status/1051158406860611585 (https://archive.fo/JTalY)
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He’s so baby faced I wonder if he got his parent permission to post his little threats:
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There's no way that headshot isn't airbrushed, swear to God this grown man ran that pic through one of those Japanese filter apps. Fucking LOL
 
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mindlessobserver said:
You just don't understand--its not that he is a bad writer--you are a bad reader!
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Iceland Heavy said:
I mentioned this in the Star Wars thread as well but Wendig writing in present tense sort of makes sense when you realize more recent YA novels like Divergent or the Hunger Games are written in it too. Which just leaves it to whether Disney mandated it as some sort of typical corporate boardroom market trends thing or he actively decided to try and ape tumblroid YA fare.
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To be fair, I don't think he's aping Hunger Games or Divergent, as they're first person, not third. Even in present tense, first person and third person work differently. I also don't think Disney mandated it, as he seems to have been writing in first person and present tense since before he was on Disney's radar.

After I wrote my earlier post in this thread, I Googled to see if he'd written anything about his stylistic choice, and it turned out he had (archive). Basically, he believes it's more cinematic and urgent than past tense. I don't agree with his reasoning, but I also haven't read his work beyond what's contained in this thread, so I can't really comment.

I don't think I'd like his writing, but that has more to do with his affected infantilism (wibble wobble, thready thread thread, references to poo) and painfully forced pop culture references (my kid's poop is like a thing from Star Wars, this writing style is my Space Jam).
 
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MrLobe said:
I don't think I've ever seen a writer more in love with hyphens.
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On top of that, he's interchangeably using an em dash, an en dash, and double hyphens. Wtf is up with that shit? That is not how you dash.

Skelter Helter said:
After I wrote my earlier post in this thread, I Googled to see if he'd written anything about his stylistic choice, and it turned out he had (archive). Basically, he believes it's more cinematic and urgent than past tense.
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That's bullshit and he's an idiot. It's immersion-breaking. Some actually good writers can use the effect of it successfully, although it is more advised for the short story form, but it's generally just bad writing, like passive voice.

Someone who hasn't yet risen above fanfic-tier awfulness has no business trying fancy shit. He needs to get his basics down first. It's sad someone like this actually gets paid to squat and squeeze out this garbage.
 
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Skelter Helter said:
After I wrote my earlier post in this thread, I Googled to see if he'd written anything about his stylistic choice, and it turned out he had (archive). Basically, he believes it's more cinematic and urgent than past tense. I don't agree with his reasoning, but I also haven't read his work beyond what's contained in this thread, so I can't really comment.
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His YA books have good reviews and some of the ideas in them are at the least creative. I haven't read them and I can't find samples of them anywhere but I doubt they're much worse than your standard YA sci fi fare.

His Star Wars stuff is absolute crap, but he very well could just be phoning it in for a paycheck. If Disney offered me cash up front to fart out a crappy EU novel which will sell no matter the quality then I can't imagine I'd try that hard either.
 
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mindlessobserver said:
My autism is triggered. Chuck! Prepare you antifa ass for the grammar nazi!
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It's a little late to stop you before you get too carried away, but the text you're correcting is the synopsis of the comic from the Dynamite Entertainment website, which means that Wendig almost certainly didn't write it. I mean, it's possible that Dynamite has authors write their own blurbs, but it's extremely unlikely.

Also, without being a dick and correcting your corrections, I'll just say that the synopsis is mostly grammatically sound, with departures that are pretty consistent with a certain style of copywriting.
 
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On top of that, he's interchangeably using an em dash, an en dash, and double hyphens. Wtf is up with that shit? That is not how you dash.
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Yeah, it's like using "speech marks" or 'inverted commas', or whether or not you capitalize certain words - it doesn't matter too much, as long as it's consistent. If he just used a standard hyphen with a space on either side every time, it might not be 100% correct, but it's overlookable. Almost.
 
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I think the biggest thing about soy-boys like Chuckles here is that they really do live in a bubble

The social media bubble; they might have a few casual acquaintances around in real life but most of their socializing is done on-line. This is their downfall.

While they can console themselves that all those Twitter followers are like friends and each asspat is a token of their enduring (lol) friendship but in the end they are not. They are hollow mealiness pixel on a screen.

If I start acting like a pompous ass my friends would sit me down and bitch-slap me until I realized the error of my ways; That's what friends do for each other.

These soy-boys live in a self contained bubble. They never meet anyone who would think differently and if they did BLOCK! And they continue on blissfully unaware of how twisted they are becoming.

Too bad BLOCK! doesn't work in the real world eh Chuckles?
 
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"Worst People" must be a Wendigism, akin to the Chipmanisms "Wasteland Ghoul" or "Obsolete People". Why can't he just call them Deplorables like his master Hillary did?

Speaking of her, how the hell did he not get lynched by Team SJW for having his Hillary Clinton-looking white woman be the hero and his Thrawn-knockoff black woman be the villain? Isn't that doubly offensive since not only is the black woman a villain, but she works for the Empire which you aren't allowed to like since they're literally Nazis?
 
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