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Bestselling apple monster. Sundance Lab alum. Books: Wanderers, Miriam Black, Magic Skeleton. Soon: Book of Accidents (7/20), Dust & Grim (10/6). Strongbad avi.

Bucks County, PA
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    Chuck Wendig‏Verified account @ChuckWendig 20 Jun 2018

    Writers are not your dancing monkeys. We do not create products. You are not our customers. Welcome to my TED Talk.

    6:08 AM - 20 Jun 2018
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      2. Chuck Wendig‏Verified account @ChuckWendig 20 Jun 2018

        I say this because I am now harangued on the daily by folks who want me to conform to some preconceived notion or predetermined activity based on my role and their relationship to me in that role. Meaning, they want me to dance, monkey, dance.

        10 replies 15 retweets 458 likes
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      3. Chuck Wendig‏Verified account @ChuckWendig 20 Jun 2018

        This comes in a lotta forms. It comes here on Twitter -- yesterday I failed to answer's someone's question about something and they tweeted at me again, "You didn't answer my question," and it's like, no I didn't. I can't reply to everything. Twitter is a fast river; I miss shit.

        5 replies 13 retweets 436 likes
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      4. Chuck Wendig‏Verified account @ChuckWendig 20 Jun 2018

        I mean, JFC, if you're Pat Rothfuss or GRRM or anybody writing a legacy series, you can't tweet, "Had breakfast with a friend!" without a hundred Rando Calrissians swanning up and demanding you CEASE FRIVOLITY AND WRITE THAT BOOK, TYPEWRITER CHIMP

        13 replies 35 retweets 656 likes
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      5. Chuck Wendig‏Verified account @ChuckWendig 20 Jun 2018

        Then you get those Very Special Friends, the ones who don't want you to say anything *gasp* untoward. Vulgarity with which they disagree with. Or worse, shudder, POLITICAL OPINIONS.

        7 replies 16 retweets 445 likes
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      6. Chuck Wendig‏Verified account @ChuckWendig 20 Jun 2018

        (Spoiler: wanting authors and books to be apolitical is itself a political opinion, and actually means you want them instead to espouse political opinions that align so neatly with yours that you're a fish who doesn't realize he's swimming in water or that water is even a thing.)

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      7. Chuck Wendig‏Verified account @ChuckWendig 20 Jun 2018

        Writers and artists are not really in the customer service business. We do not cater to your needs. That cannot be how this relationship works, because we don't make widgets and dongles. We don't make "products."

        6 replies 55 retweets 595 likes
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      8. Chuck Wendig‏Verified account @ChuckWendig 20 Jun 2018

        Products are a thing you judge by how well it does the thing that thing is supposed to do. If a coffee maker sprays scalding cat urine in your face, I think you have a pretty good case to complain; it has failed in its essential task.

        9 replies 14 retweets 383 likes
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      9. Chuck Wendig‏Verified account @ChuckWendig 20 Jun 2018

        Further, services are a thing you judge by how well the task you need gets completed -- if I hire a plumber and he blows up my toilet with a quarter-stick of dynamite, I'm gonna be pissed. I won't pay him. I'll complain.

        2 replies 10 retweets 319 likes
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      10. Chuck Wendig‏Verified account @ChuckWendig 20 Jun 2018

        But a book (or a painting or a movie or whatever) isn't a thing with a singular task, and those who come to that story with a binary expectation are likely to be disappointed. It's why I resist suggesting we create "content" -- because content is snugly adjacent to "product."

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      11. Chuck Wendig‏Verified account @ChuckWendig 20 Jun 2018

        And I recognize here there is a little discomfort when it comes to things, like, say, GAMES, which are both creations of art but also products that are meant to "work" -- but that balance is essential, as is our view of the art as subjective.

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      12. Chuck Wendig‏Verified account @ChuckWendig 20 Jun 2018

        The books I write are not meant to balance your table, or swat flies, or bludgeon mooses. They are containers for stories, and stories are themselves not things you can say WORK or DON'T WORK universally; it's not plug-and-play, not a narrative with a clear objective.

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      13. Chuck Wendig‏Verified account @ChuckWendig 20 Jun 2018

        You are not my customer. You are, I hope, my audience.

        5 replies 20 retweets 573 likes
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      14. Chuck Wendig‏Verified account @ChuckWendig 20 Jun 2018

        Now, that doesn't have to be true, and it's okay if you're not -- it's okay not to like things! It's okay not to like me or my books or the things I like or the things I say. In fact, that's expected of you to have a wild, untamed jungle of opinions.

        2 replies 15 retweets 314 likes
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      15. Chuck Wendig‏Verified account @ChuckWendig 20 Jun 2018

        You are free to be my audience at any time, and free to get off the ride at any time.

        5 replies 17 retweets 328 likes
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      16. Chuck Wendig‏Verified account @ChuckWendig 20 Jun 2018

        (Unless you're a diehard Trump fan, at which point, you're no fan of mine, and I hope my book learns to bite off your fucking fingers.)

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      17. Chuck Wendig‏Verified account @ChuckWendig 20 Jun 2018

        See what I did there? I had an opinion. A controversial one, maybe. And you would be free to say, oh my, oh no, pooh-pooh to THAT piffle, and then you can step off my Story Trolley, ding-ding, and go about your day. But I don't owe you squat. Our relationship can just be over.

        5 replies 13 retweets 437 likes
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      18. Chuck Wendig‏Verified account @ChuckWendig 20 Jun 2018

        The reverse is also true: I don't owe you, and you don't owe me. Our relationship is what we make it. You don't owe me a review, or a kind word, or anything. We can do that. We can chat -- I try to be open here and accessible! -- but that's a cookie, when you bought a cake.

        1 reply 13 retweets 307 likes
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      19. Chuck Wendig‏Verified account @ChuckWendig 20 Jun 2018

        What I will do and continue to do is write the best stories I can, and in as timely a fashion as I can manage, and I hope you're into that. And we can talk and have a good time and I'll be as accessible as I can be within the limits of my sanity.

        4 replies 13 retweets 341 likes
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      20. Chuck Wendig‏Verified account @ChuckWendig 20 Jun 2018

        That's likely true of most of the writers here, to a varying degree. But we are not your dancing monkeys. I mean, we're AT LEAST a galloping unicorn, c'mon.

        7 replies 16 retweets 393 likes
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      21. Chuck Wendig‏Verified account @ChuckWendig 20 Jun 2018

        OKAY NOW LET'S MAKE OUTpic.twitter.com/t8CciN1xUJ

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      22. Chuck Wendig‏Verified account @ChuckWendig 20 Jun 2018

        p.s. for an example of some of what I'm talking about, this comment thread at #terribleminds -->http://terribleminds.com/ramble/2018/06/18/macro-monday-and-the-fuck-trump-tweet/comment-page-1/#comment-825023 …

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