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

[Flexo]

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Thank you for the citation sir. I can't give you the rating so here is your well earned:

 

[Megaroad 2012]

I feel like musicians have accepted that nobody buys albums anymore and just upload their videos to Youtube so they can get ad revenue. Kindle actually has a similar thing where you can borrow somebody's book and they get paid per page read.

How much is an author being paid per page?

 

[The Cum Consumer]

How much is an author being paid per page?

Varies, but less than a cent usually

https://www.writtenwordmedia.com/kdp-global-fund-payouts/

 

[Megaroad 2012]

Varies, but less than a cent usually

https://www.writtenwordmedia.com/kdp-global-fund-payouts/

Man I approached this conceprt with too much optimism

 

[The Cum Consumer]

Man I approached this conceprt with too much optimism

Writers don't make as much money as most people think they do. To get onto the NYT Bestseller's list, you need to have sold about 3000 copies in one week, and that's often rigged by authors who buy their own books. For every Harry Potter is 1000 better books that never got a fighting chance.

 

[AnOminous]

Varies, but less than a cent usually

https://www.writtenwordmedia.com/kdp-global-fund-payouts/

That's not as bad as it sounds. At a penny a page per read, to get a penny a word, you'd only need as many readers as you had words on a page. And then you'd be paid linearly by whatever multiple of that you got. Say you have 500 words on a page. With even 500 readers, you'd be getting a penny a word, and with 5,000, a dime. If you got 100,000 readers, you'd have $2 a word, a quite respectable rate. At even half a cent it isn't bad at all, at least if you can get read.

 

[[Redacted]-san]

I don't know why Chuck thought it's a wonderful idea to mess up the archive library, fricking dumb butt. At least I'll get books in the form of pdf files.

And I'll never understand when individuals say stupid/untrue crap on twitter and then they lock their accounts after the whole entire world calls them out. That was kind exaggerated but I hope you guys get what I'm saying.

 

[Jaimas]

Ever noticed how the vast majority of modern male writers are complete soy fags? Is it because only soy boys are still retarded enough to think they can make a living off writing in the age of movie streaming and YouTube? Or is it because publishers refuse to work with anyone who could be threatening to their SJW status quo?

No, it's the race to the bottom:

One of the downsides of Progressivism as a whole is that many of its advocates cling to an ideology of moral absolutism - you are either good or bad, and you are only good if you agree with the cause, and tell everyone else that you do. Because of this worldview, Progressives trend towards viewing someone who agrees with the cause to be more moral than someone who doesn't, irrespective of all other factors. Because of this, they have an infamous tendency towards cronyism that puts even 1990s-era neocons to shame.

This, in turn, is one of the reasons that if a particularly rabid Progressive gets into a position where they have authority, they tend to appoint people who agree with them politically. In many cases, this is how Social Justice types take over an organization - one gets into such a position of note - often as a diversity hire - and then appoints their friends to other positions over people who are actually qualified, and eventually, control the whole organization top to bottom as the others leave in disgust/are driven off/are removed from their position to be replaced with "the right kind of people."

This behavior isn't limited to corporate structures or message boards; they do this anywhere they are able. If they get into a position on a community with an ability to ban people, this can result in the community immediately leveraging its influence to specifically oppress its ideological opponents, as one often sees on say, ResetERA. When this happens, the race to the bottom, the most egregious part of this ideological Autism, starts to manifest.

As explained above, they consider someone whether or not someone is a believer to be more important than whether or not someone has unique skills or talents. In writing circles, this means that writers with actual talent who happen to not believe in Progressive dogma will be intentionally kept down and/or driven out, while substantially less skilled and talented writers who happen to support the ideology will get promoted. Gradually, the community becomes home to people who are demonstrably worse at writing, but are much more willing to prop up the agenda, and since everyone who disagrees has no chance of getting promoted, this ensures that the only people who are getting hired are the same caliber of bumblefucks that spend every waking hour shrieking about Social Justice talking points.

Basically Chucky boy only has a career because his buddies have strategically locked anyone more talented out of the system.

 

[DavidFerrie]

Not sure if anyone has brought this up on the thread, but traditionally, 90% of published books lose money, and 99% of all published titles are currently out of print. The "potboiler" -- a proven money-making title or popular author -- is relatively rare, but a vital part of any publisher's stable if they want to stay in business.

As a nonfiction author myself (no powerleveling, sorry), I can also tell you that unless you can spin off workshops, classes, expert-witness fees, paid online-materials, etc., from the title, you'll usually end up not making anything beyond the publisher's advance. Novelists usually don't have even these options, unless they're clever and lucky enough to merchandise their materials as consumer tie-ins -- a field that's pretty much closed to people that work corporate-copyrighted stuff like the Star Wars franchise.

As some of you have pointed out, Chucky got a seat at the Geek Culture table almost solely because of his widespread presence on the early Netz, and his failure to monetize it, or adjust his perceptions and work over a thirty-year period, is his own damned fault.

 

[Jarolleon]

Friendly reminder that there is no strong evidence to indicate any kind of causative relationship between lower copyright infringement and higher purchasing. In fact, there is evidence of a correlative relationship between higher "piracy" and higher sales, indicating a symbiotic relationship. I was originally going to post a link to the study but I found so many different ones on the first page of the search alone that if you care enough to check sources you'd probably find it more edifying to go exploring yourself.

That sounds a lot like both piracy and purchases correlate with interest in the work. Or does that study measure piracy as a ratio of pirated:purchased copies?

 

[Flexo]

I've seen this firsthand over the decades. Paperback books have always been printed on shit paper, but hardcovers used to be done on nice acid free archival stock paper. The last decade or so the quality has noticeably dropped. I've seen new hardcovers begin yellowing and foxing after only a few months in ideal storage conditions.

A lot of good quality stuff could end up being lost in the next few decades.

At this point you have to wonder why not just make most books eBooks and then let people choose to order printed out works if they wish.

For a lot of cheap reading (like light novels) I've gone full eFormat just to save on shelf space, but for research things, and stories that I really, really enjoy, I like ordering a physical print copy now and then.

 

[Vining]

It's nice to see that the hatred for Cuck Wendig expands beyond /sw/

 

[Creep3r]

Just in case anyone's interested, pages from Chuck's books are scattered throughout this thread for the sake of analysis and criticism. Any chance he would be petty enough to send a DMCA over that if he knew?

Would it be fair to share more pages for constructive criticism?

Also @Curt Sibling any chance of a sequel to this piece?

 

[Nappy]

I was using the Internet Archive library to read the Elvis Cookbook and the HillBilly cookbook, fuckin Wendig and Neil Gaiman (who's been a massive dick lately despite saying 10 years ago that piracy of American Gods boosted sales) had to shit all over it.

 

[AnOminous]

I was using the Internet Archive library to read the Elvis Cookbook and the HillBilly cookbook, fuckin Wendig and Neil Gaiman (who's been a massive dick lately despite saying 10 years ago that piracy of American Gods boosted sales) had to shit all over it.

All that Scientology takes a lot out of a guy.

 

[Yamma Damma]

At this point you have to wonder why not just make most books eBooks and then let people choose to order printed out works if they wish.

For a lot of cheap reading (like light novels) I've gone full eFormat just to save on shelf space, but for research things, and stories that I really, really enjoy, I like ordering a physical print copy now and then.

Technically they already do via crowdfunding. While there's no guarentees the campaign will be successful, it's at least an option when publishing companies are being picky dicks. Which is always.

I was using the Internet Archive library to read the Elvis Cookbook and the HillBilly cookbook, fuckin Wendig and Neil Gaiman (who's been a massive dick lately despite saying 10 years ago that piracy of American Gods boosted sales) had to shit all over it.

Don't worry, he's letting trannies write his Sandman show on Netflix so he too will be broke and a joke soon enough.

 

[Odie Esty]

do we actually know if wendig is making money off of individual copies of his star wars shit? that seems like something that would be a one time fee with bonuses that ran out long ago. In which case, he did all this forliterally no reason.

 

[ditto]

do we actually know if wendig is making money off of individual copies of his star wars shit? that seems like something that would be a one time fee with bonuses that ran out long ago. In which case, he did all this forliterally no reason.

I assume one of the reasons he got work was that he worked for damn cheap. Maybe doesn't even get much of an advance and relies on royalties.

 

[The best and greatest]

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Jesus fucking christ every word drips with narcissistic self-indulgence I can practically smell the smug self-satisfied ego through the screen. Tell me you wrote this as a joke. This can't be real.

 

[Karl der Grosse]

LOL, you can open any of his books to almost any page and find writing just as bad. He is just a terrible writer.