Chuck Wendig

On the worst day of writing, the work is instructive. On the best day, the act is transcendent.

That__ why we gotta do good things now. Make good decisions. Try to move the rudder long before the boat ever gets near the iceberg, right?

It starts with my mother_.Boys get fucked up by their fathers, right? That__ why so many tales are really Daddy Issue stories at their core, because men run the world, and men get to tell their stories first. If women told most of the stories, though, then all the best stories would be about Mommy Problems.

You__e a raptor who sees all his people as defenseless little flit-wrens__nd you__l save them, if only they give up the fanciful notion that they can lead themselves, that they can protect themselves._ __ou understand nothing._ __eanwhile,_ Sinjir says, really leaning into it now, __our opponent is a woman who wants to give democracy to the entirety of the galaxy. Freedom for all. Oppression for none._ __t__ naïve._ __t may be. But at this point, I__ going to side with her precious naïveté over your authoritarian bluster.

Storytellers think they're writing for the audience. They're writing, in a way, to hurt the audience.

She gets on her tippy-toes and kisses him. Long, slow, deep. The kind of kiss where you can feel little pieces of your soul trading places as mouths open and breath mingles.

A HUG IS LIKE VIOLENCE MADE OF LOVE.

Vampires are slicker than goose shit on a glass window.

Vampires are slicker than goose shit on a glass window. Suave. Sultry. I'm neither of those things

All under the pretense of military application.__e pouts. __o pretense about it. Remember, the Internet was a military application. And now look at how it__ changed our culture.

He's heard tales of the Clone Wars -tales spoken by his own father. He knows how war goes. It's not many wars, but just one, drawn out again and again, cut up into slices so it seems more manageable.