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

[Flexo]

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.

Oh you should click on the link for the full effect. But here is the first quoted paragraph from Chuck in the article.

“Let’s imagine that you are, as you are now, a straight white dude. Except, your world features one significant twist — the SFF pop culture you consume is almost never about you. The faces of the characters do not look like yours. The creators of this media look nothing like you, either. Your experiences are not represented. Your voice? Not there. There exist in these universes no straight white dudes. Okay, maybe one or two. Some thrown in to appease. Sidekicks and bad guys and walk-on parts. Token chips flipped to the center of the table just to make you feel like you get to play, too. Oh, all around you in the real world, you are well-represented. Your family, your friends, the city you live in, the job you work — it’s straight white dude faces up and down the block. But on screen? In books? Inside comic panels and as video game characters? Almost none. Too few. Never the main characters.”​

I just also find it somewhat hilarious how Chuck is driving a lot of people to the position the Sad Puppies started at. Many of them tried to warn us all about where literature was going and how psychotic those people were, but nooooo, it was just a silly writing award, who really cared?

Well now the Internet Archive and Star Wars burns. Sometimes ignoring the problem doesn't make it go away.

 

[BubbleButt]

“Let’s imagine that you are, as you are now, a straight white dude. Except, your world features one significant twist — the SFF pop culture you consume is almost never about you. The faces of the characters do not look like yours. The creators of this media look nothing like you, either. Your experiences are not represented. Your voice? Not there. There exist in these universes no straight white dudes. Okay, maybe one or two. Some thrown in to appease. Sidekicks and bad guys and walk-on parts. Token chips flipped to the center of the table just to make you feel like you get to play, too. Oh, all around you in the real world, you are well-represented. Your family, your friends, the city you live in, the job you work — it’s straight white dude faces up and down the block. But on screen? In books? Inside comic panels and as video game characters? Almost none. Too few. Never the main characters.”​

So fucking what, who cares? I wouldn't be angry, I'm not a raging narcissistic racist.

EDIT: Fucking autocorrect.

 

[Lieutenant Rasczak]

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Internet Archive Will End Its Program for Free E-Books

The nonprofit has said its National Emergency Library was a public service to people unable to access libraries during the pandemic, but publishers and authors accused it of theft.

www.nytimes.com

Sure would be a shame if everyone just started posting links to free copies of Cuck's godawful books everywhere. Not so people could read them (because no one would ever want to) but just to make him shit himself in anger.

Props to Cuck for helping to make the internet a worse place though, many cows try but few actually succeed at it.

This faggot had to come in and ruin free and open education for everyone just because people kept archiving his shitty books.

 

[Furina]

Oh you should click on the link for the full effect. But here is the first quoted paragraph from Chuck in the article.

“Let’s imagine that you are, as you are now, a straight white dude. Except, your world features one significant twist — the SFF pop culture you consume is almost never about you. The faces of the characters do not look like yours. The creators of this media look nothing like you, either. Your experiences are not represented. Your voice? Not there. There exist in these universes no straight white dudes. Okay, maybe one or two. Some thrown in to appease. Sidekicks and bad guys and walk-on parts. Token chips flipped to the center of the table just to make you feel like you get to play, too. Oh, all around you in the real world, you are well-represented. Your family, your friends, the city you live in, the job you work — it’s straight white dude faces up and down the block. But on screen? In books? Inside comic panels and as video game characters? Almost none. Too few. Never the main characters.”​

So here's the biggest problem that I see with everything he just said. How many identities do I have to share with a character before they become "relatable" to me? If I read a book about a straight, white, man who is a master game-player sent on a secret mission to undermine the government of an alien race, am I supposed to relate to him because we share a race? Even if that has zero impact on the plot or character? Or can I not relate because I don't share two of those three identities, nevermind the fact that I'm not an expert in playing games, not do I work for a pan-galactic spy organisation. Can I only relate to characters who share X/X number of identities with me? Also, what is my "voice"? Surely my voice is my own, so the only way for me to get it out there would be to put it there myself.

Everything else he says is retarded as well but I don't have the energy to dissect this brain-dead bullshit.

 

[CatharticShitHead]

How many identities do I have to share with a character before they become "relatable" to me?

Gonna power level here a bit, but I write short stories and poetry. I'm not a pro or anything, but I feel that if you have to force identities into characters, then you have already failed.

A character (to me) shouldn't feel like it's a mish-mash of both, "I'm unique" and "You gotta fucking like me". Because at that point, the character just feels like the author screaming, "YOU GOTTA THINK THEY'RE A COOL CHARACTER".

A good example of a horrible author doing this would be the author of Empress Theresa or Onision and his god awful books.

Characters being relatable and likable fall all the way down into their personality and perhaps the overall theme of their circumstances. This is why authors like Chuck fail. All of their characters feel inhuman or just plain not likable. But if I voice that, I get called all the phobics.

 

[BrunoMattei]

Gonna power level here a bit, but I write short stories and poetry. I'm not a pro or anything, but I feel that if you have to force identities into characters, then you have already failed.

A character (to me) shouldn't feel like it's a mish-mash of both, "I'm unique" and "You gotta fucking like me". Because at that point, the character just feels like the author screaming, "YOU GOTTA THINK THEY'RE A COOL CHARACTER".

A good example of a horrible author doing this would be the author of Empress Theresa or Onision and his god awful books.

Characters being relatable and likable fall all the way down into their personality and perhaps the overall theme of their circumstances. This is why authors like Chuck fail. All of their characters feel inhuman or just plain not likable. But if I voice that, I get called all the phobics.

You could like a character or relate to them if they do horrible things. Example: the Joker, Patrick Bateman, Alex Delarge.

 

[Karl der Grosse]

The funny thing is, I read books with characters in them who don't share any characteristics with me at all. Let's take the John Rain books by Barry Eisler (superb, BTW) as an example. John Rain is a master assassin, half-Japanese, with a love of culture, jazz, and ultra-expensive whiskey. He lives in Tokyo (or Brazil or Paris, depending). I'm none of these things. Nothing in common. I don't even really know very much about the locales he writes about or the martial arts techniques he describes. Yet I manage to become deeply involved in the story and very invested in the characters. Chuck would have you think that's impossible. It's very possible, Chuck, you're just not a good enough writer to pull it off.

 

[CatharticShitHead]

You could like a character or relate to them if they do horrible things. Example: the Joker, Patrick Bateman, Alex Delarge.

This is definitely true. Like I said, it all falls down to personality and circumstances. A good example of someone doing horrible shit and being totally unlikable is the main character from YIIK: A PostModern RPG. Alex, the MC, is such a pussy chasing, inconsiderate, and insufferable fuckwad that even though you play as him, you can't help but say, "SHUT THE FUCK UP ALEX"

 

[MeganDodgedABullet]

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.

Jesus fucking Christ that first sentence :-

"I like to think of myself as something of a pop culture examiner"

You could match the smug soyboy face with that single snippet. What an utter twot.

 

[Furina]

Characters being relatable and likable fall all the way down into their personality and perhaps the overall theme of their circumstances.

And herein lies the problem with so many "progressive" writers these days. Their identity is there personality. They're not people whose worldview is informed by their upbringing and experiences, it's a set of overlapping identities that come pre-loaded with various "experiences" that must always form the cornerstone of your outlook. Chuck's characters fail because they're not characters. They're not personalities. They're representatives of various groups and must always be used as mouthpiece for that group.

 

[Nappy]

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

I mean, he's already probably been paid a fat stack for the show to exist, not like he loses anything if it flops on Netflix.

 

[UncleTusky]

/co/ is doing God's work and sharing the Zippyshare links for all this (sorry if late, doing this as a favor for an Internet friend):

https://desuarchive.org/co/thread/115495809/#115515552

Spoiler: Full List of Links

Chuck Wendig - [Gods and Monsters 01] - Unclean Spirits (epub).epub
https://www105.zippyshare.com/v/Q9X8JHZr/file.html
Chuck Wendig - [Heartland 01] - Under the Empyrean Sky (epub).epub
https://www105.zippyshare.com/v/vtaGtINZ/file.html
Chuck Wendig - [Heartland 02] - Blightborn (epub).epub
https://www105.zippyshare.com/v/pmd5sEh4/file.html
Chuck Wendig - [Heartland 03] - The Harvest (epub).epub
https://www105.zippyshare.com/v/awqplrGb/file.html
Chuck Wendig - [Miriam Black 01] - Blackbirds (retail) (epub).epub
https://www105.zippyshare.com/v/AficLuBN/file.html
Chuck Wendig - [Miriam Black 02] - Mockingbird (epub).epub
https://www105.zippyshare.com/v/g0l3Au7Q/file.html
Chuck Wendig - [Miriam Black 03] - The Cormorant (epub).epub
https://www105.zippyshare.com/v/YIMw3tX4/file.html
Chuck Wendig - [Miriam Black 04] - Thunderbird (epub).epub
https://www105.zippyshare.com/v/8ictm4mn/file.html
Chuck Wendig - [Miriam Black 05] - The Raptor & the Wren (retail) (epub).epub
https://www105.zippyshare.com/v/WJlIESPp/file.html
Chuck Wendig - [Miriam Black 06] - Vultures (retail) (epub).epub
https://www105.zippyshare.com/v/VRWqzK9w/file.html
Chuck Wendig - [Mookie Pearl 01] - The Blue Blazes (epub).epub
https://www105.zippyshare.com/v/46kT45Kb/file.html
Chuck Wendig - [Mookie Pearl 02] - The Hellsblood Bride (epub).epub
https://www105.zippyshare.com/v/SdxvYk9E/file.html
Chuck Wendig - [Zer0es 01] - Zer0es (Zeroes) (retail) (epub).epub
https://www105.zippyshare.com/v/L1MzWdce/file.html
Chuck Wendig - [Zer0es 02] - Invasive (retail) (epub).epub
https://www105.zippyshare.com/v/86Xq9WLG/file.html


Chuck Wendig - 250 Things You Should Know About Writing (epub).epub
https://www105.zippyshare.com/v/2ihxxsZO/file.html
Chuck Wendig - Irregular Creatures (epub).epub
https://www105.zippyshare.com/v/gQo2ulnq/file.html
Chuck Wendig - Wanderers (retail) (epub).epub
https://www105.zippyshare.com/v/y6DTbMlA/file.html
Damn Fine Story Mastering the Tools of a Powerful Narrative by Wendig Chuck.epub
https://www105.zippyshare.com/v/nr1R2tlS/file.html
Kevin Hearne & Chuck Wendig & Lila Bowen - Death & Honey (epub).epub
https://www105.zippyshare.com/v/yR10odnw/file.html
Kevin Hearne & Delilah S Dawson & Chuck Wendig - [The Iron Druid Chronicles 7.50] - Three Slices (epub).epub
https://www105.zippyshare.com/v/qG9HHaWJ/file.html
Star Wars - [Aftermath 01] - Aftermath - Chuck Wendig (epub).epub
https://www105.zippyshare.com/v/a68yGlFh/file.html
Star Wars - [Aftermath 02] - Life Debt - Chuck Wendig (retail) (epub).epub
https://www105.zippyshare.com/v/o2xRVQgD/file.html
Star Wars - [Aftermath 03] - Empire's End - Chuck Wendig (epub).epub
https://www105.zippyshare.com/v/xQrwynGU/file.html
The Kick-Ass Writer 1001 Ways to Write Great Fiction, Get Published, and Earn Your Audience by Wendig, Chuck.epub
https://www105.zippyshare.com/v/T1avUG6f/file.html
Chuck Wendig - [Atlanta Burns 01-02] - Shotgun Gravy & Bait Dog (epub).epub
https://www105.zippyshare.com/v/nIeTzU33/file.html
Chuck Wendig - [Atlanta Burns 02] - The Hunt (epub).epub
https://www105.zippyshare.com/v/DSkEoS9y/file.html
Chuck Wendig - [Double Dead 01] - Double Dead [Tomes of the Dead] (epub).epub
https://www105.zippyshare.com/v/PQjtkqJP/file.html
Chuck Wendig - [Double Dead 02] - Bad Blood [Tomes of the Dead] (epub).epub
https://www8.zippyshare.com/v/E8u9cfWO/file.html

 

[Dave.]

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Every time this soyfaced fuck opens his mouth I can feel my knuckles whitening. Have you ever had that urge to punch a hole in your monitor?

 

[DavidFerrie]

You could like a character or relate to them if they do horrible things. Example: the Joker, Patrick Bateman, Alex Delarge.

An example of an author who works with characters that are deeply morally compromised, and do all sorts of awful things, yet draw sympathy from the reader, is neo-Noir writer James Ellroy. Part of his trick is that his narratives take a rapid-fire, stream-of-consciousness style where you feel like you're inside the protagonist, experiencing everything he is. He also isn't afraid to create whole casts of antiheroes, where there are no "inspirational" or wholly "positive" characters, whatever their race, gender, or sexuality.

Also, unlike Chucky, Ellroy is highly talented, hugely-knowledgeable about the times and places where his books are set, and has balls.

 

[Water-T]

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.

"As an eldritch horror beyond space and time with an unpronounceable name, I am insulted that there are no books being written by other eldritch horrors beyond space and time with unpronounceable names! How can I identify with the characters of other books if none of them are eldritch horrors beyond space and time with unpronounceable names!? TELL ME!"

 

[AnOminous]

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

The samples we've seen here don't even have to be cherrypicked. He writes like a sausage grinder. Cut it anywhere, it's all the same ground up garbage and floor scrapings and shit.

Also, unlike Chucky, Ellroy is highly talented, hugely-knowledgeable about the times and places where his books are set, and has balls.

Remember, this disgraceful corporate ball-hugging cuck talks shit on Tolkien, who built entire worlds, when he can't even build a single relatable 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?

Almost all SJW tropes, when deconstructed, end up containing a bizarrely ironic subtext of racism and privilege, where the white men who invented these tropes, while presenting themselves as some kind of liberator, imbue the people they're nobly "helping" with marked traits of intellectual and moral inferiority.

 

[GethN7]

The samples we've seen here don't even have to be cherrypicked. He writes like a sausage grinder. Cut it anywhere, it's all the same ground up garbage and floor scrapings and shit.



Remember, this disgraceful corporate ball-hugging cuck talks shit on Tolkien, who built entire worlds, when he can't even build a single relatable character.

Tolkien constructed his own language from scratch. Wendig can't even do his own any justice.

 

[Nappy]

/co/ is doing God's work and sharing the Zippyshare links for all this (sorry if late, doing this as a favor for an Internet friend):

https://desuarchive.org/co/thread/115495809/#115515552

Spoiler: Full List of Links

Chuck Wendig - [Gods and Monsters 01] - Unclean Spirits (epub).epub
https://www105.zippyshare.com/v/Q9X8JHZr/file.html
Chuck Wendig - [Heartland 01] - Under the Empyrean Sky (epub).epub
https://www105.zippyshare.com/v/vtaGtINZ/file.html
Chuck Wendig - [Heartland 02] - Blightborn (epub).epub
https://www105.zippyshare.com/v/pmd5sEh4/file.html
Chuck Wendig - [Heartland 03] - The Harvest (epub).epub
https://www105.zippyshare.com/v/awqplrGb/file.html
Chuck Wendig - [Miriam Black 01] - Blackbirds (retail) (epub).epub
https://www105.zippyshare.com/v/AficLuBN/file.html
Chuck Wendig - [Miriam Black 02] - Mockingbird (epub).epub
https://www105.zippyshare.com/v/g0l3Au7Q/file.html
Chuck Wendig - [Miriam Black 03] - The Cormorant (epub).epub
https://www105.zippyshare.com/v/YIMw3tX4/file.html
Chuck Wendig - [Miriam Black 04] - Thunderbird (epub).epub
https://www105.zippyshare.com/v/8ictm4mn/file.html
Chuck Wendig - [Miriam Black 05] - The Raptor & the Wren (retail) (epub).epub
https://www105.zippyshare.com/v/WJlIESPp/file.html
Chuck Wendig - [Miriam Black 06] - Vultures (retail) (epub).epub
https://www105.zippyshare.com/v/VRWqzK9w/file.html
Chuck Wendig - [Mookie Pearl 01] - The Blue Blazes (epub).epub
https://www105.zippyshare.com/v/46kT45Kb/file.html
Chuck Wendig - [Mookie Pearl 02] - The Hellsblood Bride (epub).epub
https://www105.zippyshare.com/v/SdxvYk9E/file.html
Chuck Wendig - [Zer0es 01] - Zer0es (Zeroes) (retail) (epub).epub
https://www105.zippyshare.com/v/L1MzWdce/file.html
Chuck Wendig - [Zer0es 02] - Invasive (retail) (epub).epub
https://www105.zippyshare.com/v/86Xq9WLG/file.html


Chuck Wendig - 250 Things You Should Know About Writing (epub).epub
https://www105.zippyshare.com/v/2ihxxsZO/file.html
Chuck Wendig - Irregular Creatures (epub).epub
https://www105.zippyshare.com/v/gQo2ulnq/file.html
Chuck Wendig - Wanderers (retail) (epub).epub
https://www105.zippyshare.com/v/y6DTbMlA/file.html
Damn Fine Story Mastering the Tools of a Powerful Narrative by Wendig Chuck.epub
https://www105.zippyshare.com/v/nr1R2tlS/file.html
Kevin Hearne & Chuck Wendig & Lila Bowen - Death & Honey (epub).epub
https://www105.zippyshare.com/v/yR10odnw/file.html
Kevin Hearne & Delilah S Dawson & Chuck Wendig - [The Iron Druid Chronicles 7.50] - Three Slices (epub).epub
https://www105.zippyshare.com/v/qG9HHaWJ/file.html
Star Wars - [Aftermath 01] - Aftermath - Chuck Wendig (epub).epub
https://www105.zippyshare.com/v/a68yGlFh/file.html
Star Wars - [Aftermath 02] - Life Debt - Chuck Wendig (retail) (epub).epub
https://www105.zippyshare.com/v/o2xRVQgD/file.html
Star Wars - [Aftermath 03] - Empire's End - Chuck Wendig (epub).epub
https://www105.zippyshare.com/v/xQrwynGU/file.html
The Kick-Ass Writer 1001 Ways to Write Great Fiction, Get Published, and Earn Your Audience by Wendig, Chuck.epub
https://www105.zippyshare.com/v/T1avUG6f/file.html
Chuck Wendig - [Atlanta Burns 01-02] - Shotgun Gravy & Bait Dog (epub).epub
https://www105.zippyshare.com/v/nIeTzU33/file.html
Chuck Wendig - [Atlanta Burns 02] - The Hunt (epub).epub
https://www105.zippyshare.com/v/DSkEoS9y/file.html
Chuck Wendig - [Double Dead 01] - Double Dead [Tomes of the Dead] (epub).epub
https://www105.zippyshare.com/v/PQjtkqJP/file.html
Chuck Wendig - [Double Dead 02] - Bad Blood [Tomes of the Dead] (epub).epub
https://www8.zippyshare.com/v/E8u9cfWO/file.html

Thank you anons for compiling pdf and epub archives of books I will never read!

 

[GaryGrey]

Wonder if it could be spun that Chuck trying to remove free and open access to books means he hate minorities, poor people, and the disenfranchised? People who may have trouble paying for access to books and rely on a system of free books as entertainment and education for themselves and their kids.

 

[RomanesEuntDomus]

Wonder if it could be spun that Chuck trying to remove free and open access to books means he hate minorities, poor people, and the disenfranchised? People who may have trouble paying for access to books and rely on a system of free books as entertainment and education for themselves and their kids.

Well it's a baseless accusation that doesn't make any sense whatsoever, so of course it would work, if someone rattled the cages at Twitter enough about it.