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

[RomanesEuntDomus]

This is what you get when an author forgets that words mean something and he just wants to sound smart and artsy, by combining contradictory concepts and unmatching descriptions. The fuck's a gravelly lilt supposed to sound like? I don't know and neither does Cuck. All that counts is that it makes a nice combination of words.
It is nonsensical.

Pratchett, being the master of witty nonsense, described the color of magic (only visible to wizards and cats) as a fluorescent greenish yellow-purple, which makes no sense whatsoever, which highlights that the color itself is supernatural and thus surreal and you can't imagine what it looks like if you haven't seen it yourself. It's like describing the color "red" to a blind person.
In Pratchett's writing, it's a deliberate joke, in Cuck's writing, it's supposed to mean something when it in fact doesn't.

You can imagine a face with a laserscalp and a patchy beard. And you can imagine feminine eyes and pouty lips. But you can't imagine both at the same time for the same face. The moment you do, it'll turn into something that is more akin ot a carricature than a supposedly "manly and pretty face". It'll look more like this:

(Puripuri Prisoner from One Punch Man).

I've read a few samples of Chuck's writing and for the life of me, I can't understand what the appeal is.
His writing style of present-tense short sentences doesn't read fluent, it seems jerky, badly paced, pretentious and above all, his use and choice of words is boring and lame.

Or, to take a page from the Cuckmeister himself:

His writing. Present tense. All in present tense. It is not fluent or fun to read. Not at all. No. Way too jerky. Badly paced, too. Some call it pretentious with a sidedish of guacamole. Did I mention the bad choice of words? He is bad at choosing words. Words to express what he wants to say. What he wants you to read. Yeah, he is a writer like that. A writer that's bad at choosing words. Bad at getting to the point and moving on, too, at times. At times, he skips ahead too fast, but other times, not. Then he keeps reiterating things endlessly.
Sometimes.
But that was in the past, now Chuck is on Twitter. And we wait for the inevitable. That someone comes forward and spills the beans about Chuck being a sexpest. A sexpest that targets underage fans. Only a matter of time. Time.

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.

I think the Hugo Awards strictly exist only so they can give nobodies like Chuck an award, to write on the cover of his next book "From Award Winning Author", as long as no one knows that it's an award in kissing ass and spouting rightthink online, it stays effective.

And I agree, most likely Authors such as Cuckyboi are only getting writing gigs, since they only cost half as much as any self-respecting and capable author.

 

[Lone MacReady]

This faggot seems like the progenitor of cucked soy face, genuinely.

 

[Elwood P. Dowd]

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

Also @Curt Sibling any chance of a sequel to this piece?
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What's interesting is that Bret Easton Ellis kind of did the same thing in American Psycho, with those boring paragraphs after paragraphs describing how everybody was dressed. Apparently somebody finally sat down and figured out that anyone actually dressed the way described would have basically looked like a circus clown. Plaid ties with striped shirts, brown shirts with black pants, etc. Except, of course, it was doubtless intentional with Ellis. Philistine that I am, I of course scanned over that to get to the bits about fellating human skulls or what have you. Missing out on a cute easter egg.

The zombie cartoon reminds me of YouTuber Nerdrotic more than it does anything else. Add a caption about "Did I ever tell you I owned a comic book shop in San Francisco for ten years," and you could easily repurpose it.

 

[Caverlock]

Spoiler: Advertising My Somewhat Relevant Lolcow Thread When I Probably Shouldn't

I apologize if I'm being too much of a carnival barker asshole, but I made a thread on a tough-guy low-tier sci-fi author who has spoken to Wendig several times

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and recently had a lot to say about shutting down Internet Archive's online library





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The answers to all these questions and more can be found in the Patrick "Stealthygeek" Tomlinson thread:

• Why did Patrick's pregnant wife divorce him and force him to sign away his parental rights, child?
• Why was he banned from Twitter for ten months and forced to LARP as his cat, child?
• Why did he pay $5,000 to get his account back after threatening to fly to their headquarters to speak to the manager, child?
• Other than Norm MacDonald, who are the cyberstalker terrorists who are totally really trying to murder him, child?
• Can he really spoon feed you your own teeth, child?
• Is he a fat alcoholic in denial, child?

 

[Stock Image Photographer]

Spoiler: Advertising My Somewhat Relevant Lolcow Thread When I Probably Shouldn't

I apologize if I'm being too much of a carnival barker asshole, but I made a thread on a tough-guy low-tier sci-fi author who has spoken to Wendig several times

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and recently had a lot to say about shutting down Internet Archive's online library

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The answers to all these questions and more can be found in the Patrick "Stealthygeek" Tomlinson thread:

• Why did Patrick's pregnant wife divorce him and force him to sign away his parental rights, child?
• Why was he banned from Twitter for ten months and forced to LARP as his cat, child?
• Why did he pay $5,000 to get his account back after threatening to fly to their headquarters to speak to the manager, child?
• Other than Norm MacDonald, who are the cyberstalker terrorists who are totally really trying to murder him, child?
• Can he really spoon feed you your own teeth, child?
• Is he a fat alcoholic in denial, child?

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This dude probably got told he looks like a serial killer and confused that as a compliment about looking tough and capable. In reality that person just meant he looks like John Wayne Gacy.

 

[Elwood P. Dowd]

Spoiler: Advertising My Somewhat Relevant Lolcow Thread When I Probably Shouldn't

I apologize if I'm being too much of a carnival barker asshole, but I made a thread on a tough-guy low-tier sci-fi author who has spoken to Wendig several times

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and recently had a lot to say about shutting down Internet Archive's online library

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The answers to all these questions and more can be found in the Patrick "Stealthygeek" Tomlinson thread:

• Why did Patrick's pregnant wife divorce him and force him to sign away his parental rights, child?
• Why was he banned from Twitter for ten months and forced to LARP as his cat, child?
• Why did he pay $5,000 to get his account back after threatening to fly to their headquarters to speak to the manager, child?
• Other than Norm MacDonald, who are the cyberstalker terrorists who are totally really trying to murder him, child?
• Can he really spoon feed you your own teeth, child?
• Is he a fat alcoholic in denial, child?

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IIRC this guy is as much a sperg magnet as he is a sperg himself. Pissing off the Opie & Anthony fanbase will probably do that. It actually wouldn't surprise me if some of his more bizarre claims are true, based upon this.

 

[Jaimas]

This is what you get when an author forgets that words mean something and he just wants to sound smart and artsy, by combining contradictory concepts and unmatching descriptions. The fuck's a gravelly lilt supposed to sound like? I don't know and neither does Cuck. All that counts is that it makes a nice combination of words.
It is nonsensical.

Pratchett, being the master of witty nonsense, described the color of magic (only visible to wizards and cats) as a fluorescent greenish yellow-purple, which makes no sense whatsoever, which highlights that the color itself is supernatural and thus surreal and you can't imagine what it looks like if you haven't seen it yourself. It's like describing the color "red" to a blind person.
In Pratchett's writing, it's a deliberate joke, in Cuck's writing, it's supposed to mean something when it in fact doesn't.

You can imagine a face with a laserscalp and a patchy beard. And you can imagine feminine eyes and pouty lips. But you can't imagine both at the same time for the same face. The moment you do, it'll turn into something that is more akin ot a carricature than a supposedly "manly and pretty face". It'll look more like this:
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(Puripuri Prisoner from One Punch Man).

I've read a few samples of Chuck's writing and for the life of me, I can't understand what the appeal is.
His writing style of present-tense short sentences doesn't read fluent, it seems jerky, badly paced, pretentious and above all, his use and choice of words is boring and lame.

Or, to take a page from the Cuckmeister himself:

His writing. Present tense. All in present tense. It is not fluent or fun to read. Not at all. No. Way too jerky. Badly paced, too. Some call it pretentious with a sidedish of guacamole. Did I mention the bad choice of words? He is bad at choosing words. Words to express what he wants to say. What he wants you to read. Yeah, he is a writer like that. A writer that's bad at choosing words. Bad at getting to the point and moving on, too, at times. At times, he skips ahead too fast, but other times, not. Then he keeps reiterating things endlessly.
Sometimes.
But that was in the past, now Chuck is on Twitter. And we wait for the inevitable. That someone comes forward and spills the beans about Chuck being a sexpest. A sexpest that targets underage fans. Only a matter of time. Time.


I think the Hugo Awards strictly exist only so they can give nobodies like Chuck an award, to write on the cover of his next book "From Award Winning Author", as long as no one knows that it's an award in kissing ass and spouting rightthink online, it stays effective.

And I agree, most likely Authors such as Cuckyboi are only getting writing gigs, since they only cost half as much as any self-respecting and capable author.

I've covered this like eight times, but since a lot of people are new to Chuckyboy, it bears repeating: He only has a career because of his buddies.

The short version is that over the last decade or so, Sci-Fi writing got ideologically captured by people like Chuck, who will flat-out attempt to deplatform anyone who doesn't kiss their proverbial ring. Almost none of them are genuinely talented or skilled, they're using the fact that they have a dominating industry presence to keep a boot on the neck of any writer that isn't a shitty political sperg like they are or which has actual talent that would leave them all behind. Effectively, their goal has been to become a roadblock where you can't get an in-roads into the industry without going through them, and consequently spending the requisite number of hours virtue signalling and pushing the cause.

Sci-Fi isn't the only industry afflicted with these tards, the Comics industry is, Video Games have their own attempted groups doing this, and so on. It's all about keeping quality down, and pushing ideology over all other factors. The scary part is that Chucky boy doesn't even represent the low point of this phenomenon - he's on the lower edge, but there are writers that are so much worse.

 

[Mola Ram]

I've covered this like eight times, but since a lot of people are new to Chuckyboy, it bears repeating: He only has a career because of his buddies.

The short version is that over the last decade or so, Sci-Fi writing got ideologically captured by people like Chuck, who will flat-out attempt to deplatform anyone who doesn't kiss their proverbial ring. Almost none of them are genuinely talented or skilled, they're using the fact that they have a dominating industry presence to keep a boot on the neck of any writer that isn't a shitty political sperg like they are or which has actual talent that would leave them all behind. Effectively, their goal has been to become a roadblock where you can't get an in-roads into the industry without going through them, and consequently spending the requisite number of hours virtue signalling and pushing the cause.

Sci-Fi isn't the only industry afflicted with these tards, the Comics industry is, Video Games have their own attempted groups doing this, and so on. It's all about keeping quality down, and pushing ideology over all other factors. The scary part is that Chucky boy doesn't even represent the low point of this phenomenon - he's on the lower edge, but there are writers that are so much worse.

I don't know that she's worse in terms of quality, but NK Jemisin is one of the most powerful of the gatekeepers.

 

[Jaimas]

I don't know that she's worse in terms of quality, but NK Jemisin is one of the most powerful of the gatekeepers.

She's one of the worst, as her entire career can be summed up in about five words:

"I'm a progressive black woman."

 

[Next Task]

What's interesting is that Bret Easton Ellis kind of did the same thing in American Psycho, with those boring paragraphs after paragraphs describing how everybody was dressed. Apparently somebody finally sat down and figured out that anyone actually dressed the way described would have basically looked like a circus clown. Plaid ties with striped shirts, brown shirts with black pants, etc. Except, of course, it was doubtless intentional with Ellis. Philistine that I am, I of course scanned over that to get to the bits about fellating human skulls or what have you. Missing out on a cute easter egg.

Yeah, I read that at one point he describes a character, and if you're paying attention you'll realise that in the course of a page or two that he's wearing two ties.

Which could be a mistake, or could be entirely intentional - part of the point of the book is for that to be a genuine question.

 

[kaien]

His writing. Present tense. All in present tense.

Neal Stephenson did this very well in Snow Crash, and ever since then you regularly see imitators do it very badly.

I think the Hugo Awards strictly exist only so they can give nobodies like Chuck an award, to write on the cover of his next book "From Award Winning Author", as long as no one knows that it's an award in kissing ass and spouting rightthink online, it stays effective.

The Hugos have always been to some extent or another a popularity contest, as is inevitable when you allow fan voting. Really, the train had left the station years before Larry Correia and company decided to make a big internet stink about it. Peak Hugo at the very latest is 2001, when Harry Potter took home best novel, and the cracks were obvious in the early '90s when the cult of Lois Bujold won her three best novels in five years.

If the problem seems more acute now, it's not so much that the flaws in the award system are any different, but rather that a shrinking and increasingly interconnected voting pool is throwing those flaws into sharp relief.

 

[Happy Fish]

Fuck. So who is archiving Internet Archive?

 

[RomanesEuntDomus]

Fuck. So who is archiving Internet Archive?

Null.

 

[Flexo]

I think the Hugo Awards strictly exist only so they can give nobodies like Chuck an award, to write on the cover of his next book "From Award Winning Author", as long as no one knows that it's an award in kissing ass and spouting rightthink online, it stays effective.

And I agree, most likely Authors such as Cuckyboi are only getting writing gigs, since they only cost half as much as any self-respecting and capable author.

Hey! Look at what I found from 2015.

https://accordingtohoyt.com/2015/11/04/the-rise-of-the-self-insertion-fic-lawrence-railey/

Chuck Wendig’s rant about people not seeing themselves in stories is perfectly in line with this thought process. If we extrapolate his line of thinking, there must be, for example, gay black characters so that gay black men can connect with the story and insert themselves into it. For without a suitable number of these characters, they cannot connect with the story. Or, in simple terms, they can’t make the story about themselves personally.​

. . .​

Unlike Athena, the characters in those stories will not feel like real people, with real motivations. You won’t care about them, you won’t want to read more unless the author is deliberately stroking your ego. So much of what the Puppy Kickers do is a sort of mutual stroking of egos. Here, you wrote a story about social justice, have a Hugo and feel good about yourself. A decade from now, nobody will remember the book, because it stunk like yesterday’s meat, but hey…​

 

[RomanesEuntDomus]

Hey! Look at what I found from 2015.

https://accordingtohoyt.com/2015/11/04/the-rise-of-the-self-insertion-fic-lawrence-railey/

Chuck Wendig’s rant about people not seeing themselves in stories is perfectly in line with this thought process. If we extrapolate his line of thinking, there must be, for example, gay black characters so that gay black men can connect with the story and insert themselves into it. For without a suitable number of these characters, they cannot connect with the story. Or, in simple terms, they can’t make the story about themselves personally.​

. . .​

Unlike Athena, the characters in those stories will not feel like real people, with real motivations. You won’t care about them, you won’t want to read more unless the author is deliberately stroking your ego. So much of what the Puppy Kickers do is a sort of mutual stroking of egos. Here, you wrote a story about social justice, have a Hugo and feel good about yourself. A decade from now, nobody will remember the book, because it stunk like yesterday’s meat, but hey…​

When someone argues that they can't identify with a character for looking different than themselves, I genuinely wonder if something's wrong with their brain tbh.
Or is being able to relate to characters of a different sex, age, background, race or sexual preferences something only white men can do?

I frankly feel telling a black person or a woman or whoever that they can't identify with a character for being the wrong sex or race to be quite bigoted tbh.

 

[GethN7]

Hey! Look at what I found from 2015.

https://accordingtohoyt.com/2015/11/04/the-rise-of-the-self-insertion-fic-lawrence-railey/

Chuck Wendig’s rant about people not seeing themselves in stories is perfectly in line with this thought process. If we extrapolate his line of thinking, there must be, for example, gay black characters so that gay black men can connect with the story and insert themselves into it. For without a suitable number of these characters, they cannot connect with the story. Or, in simple terms, they can’t make the story about themselves personally.​

. . .​

Unlike Athena, the characters in those stories will not feel like real people, with real motivations. You won’t care about them, you won’t want to read more unless the author is deliberately stroking your ego. So much of what the Puppy Kickers do is a sort of mutual stroking of egos. Here, you wrote a story about social justice, have a Hugo and feel good about yourself. A decade from now, nobody will remember the book, because it stunk like yesterday’s meat, but hey…​

If so, that is horribly vain, shallow, and self-serving. Winston Smith was practically a stand-in for the audience to get an idea of the world of 1984 and served as a walking info dump as much he did a character. Regardless, he still had his own motivations, goals, and feelings, and the story was no worse for him being his own person. You still were able to grasp the story moral and imagine what would be like in his shoes.

Turning a character into a lifeless cardboard cutout you project yourself on is generally fine in a role-playing game, because unless it's totally linear, it's up to you to determine how you will write their character with your actions. As part of a book, outside of the choose your own adventure genre, that's pretty boring, because that means you can draw nothing from the character once you put the story down, they have no unique experiences of their own that made the story interesting, they are a mere cipher you could switch out for anyone else with no changes.

 

[Happy Fish]

When someone argues that they can't identify with a character for looking different than themselves, I genuinely wonder if something's wrong with their brain tbh.
Or is being able to relate to characters of a different sex, age, background, race or sexual preferences something only white men can do?

I frankly feel telling a black person or a woman or whoever that they can't identify with a character for being the wrong sex or race to be quite bigoted tbh.

There are certain conditions that lead to a person having trouble relating to others socially. I feel like I've seen that condition brought up on some occasion on this forum but cannot for the life of me remember its name. A-something. Alstidm? Alfism? Altruism? Astizm? Something like that.

 

[LetterlandMafia]

The Hugos is just the Tor Books love-in at this stage. Funny thing is they’re the first to complain anout Old Boys Clubs in other areas of the genre or industries, yet when youu point the above out to them the defence comes thick and fast.

Not sure if this year’s Hugos have happened yet but if not I fully expect they give him some impromptu ‘Preserving Authors Rights’ award, just to let him know they have his back.

 

[CIA Nigger]

I think the Hugo Awards strictly exist only so they can give nobodies like Chuck an award, to write on the cover of his next book "From Award Winning Author", as long as no one knows that it's an award in kissing ass and spouting rightthink online, it stays effective.

If there's one positive thing that came out of the "Sad Puppies" ballot shitstorm, it's that they proved the awards are rigged. The Hugo guys refused to give out awards for many categories that year and even gave a fucking Chuck Tingle shitpost novel an award/nomination (I forget). It was the IRL version of Twitter/gaming website polls when the creators would scream when they didn't get the results they wanted.

The fact that googling "sad puppies hugo" brings up similar results to GamerGate news stories proves that they clearly scared a few people in that crowd. Never mind the fact that the Hugo awards are a circlejerk of the same few big Sci-Fi publishers winning awards every year.

 

[Fictional Character]

When someone argues that they can't identify with a character for looking different than themselves, I genuinely wonder if something's wrong with their brain tbh.
Or is being able to relate to characters of a different sex, age, background, race or sexual preferences something only white men can do?

I frankly feel telling a black person or a woman or whoever that they can't identify with a character for being the wrong sex or race to be quite bigoted tbh.

It's a massive failure of empathy that's then projected on everyone else. And yet, people doing this would want us to believe that they're more compassionate and sensitive than others. I think it was Guy Gavriel Kay who described writing as act of "creative empathy" and seeing how people like Wendig are such shitty writers, I find myself agreeing more and more with that.