terribleminds: chuck wendig gives a young writer want-to-be a letter of encouragement…

By Chuck Wendig:

AN EMAIL ABOUT WRITING, AND MY RESPONSE

I received this email the other day. I get emails like this a lot, and I always try to respond (though sometimes my lack of time — or lack of a meaningful answer — get in the way of my best efforts), and usually my replies end up being just a few lines. This one, I don’t know why, got a more robust response that even I didn’t really expect, words just sort of tumbling out, and I thought it might be useful or challenging or at least an artifact of curiosity to post the email and its response:

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The Zero-Fuckery Quick-Create Guide To Kick-Ass Characters (And All The Crazy Plot Stuff That Surrounds ‘Em) « terribleminds: chuck wendig

By Chuck Wendig…

When writers are tasked with creating characters, we are told to try these character exercisesthat entreat us to answer rather mad questions about them: hair color, eye color, toe length, nipple hue, former job, phone number of former job supervisor, what she had for lunch, if she were a piece of Ikea furniture what piece would she be (“Billy bookcase! NO WAIT, A SKJARNNGFLONG LINGONBERRY-FLAVORED COCKTAIL TRAY”). And so on and so forth.

Most of these are, of course, abject badger-shite.

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You And Your Bad Reviews « terribleminds: chuck wendig

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Oh, and be sure to watch the video down in the comments – Brad Metzler – Hilarious!

 

When he said “shitkittens”, he had me – by Chuck Wendig…

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