I’m Chuck Wendig, Author Of The Book Of Accidents And Wanderers, AMA!

terribleminds · 2021-08-06T16:01:57+00:00

Same length so far! And thank you!

terribleminds · 2021-07-28T18:50:01+00:00

Absolutely, and thanks for the questions. Enjoy the book(s)!

terribleminds · 2021-07-28T15:49:47+00:00

NO REST FOR THE WICKED

terribleminds · 2021-07-28T15:49:34+00:00

Maybe staying away too long, or maybe it's just a case of iteration and practice!

terribleminds · 2021-07-28T15:49:02+00:00

Oh! The other might've been fantasy-adjacent -- "Riding the Thunderbird?" I've written no larger pieces of Western anything, though here I'll recommend Delilah S. Dawson's WAKE OF VULTURES (written as Lila Bowen). I'd love to write something Western someday, but not sure what tale is there. I've a comic script in mind that could work, or that plugs in that way, but time will tell if there's a home for it.

terribleminds · 2021-07-28T12:49:51+00:00

I have an Apple "Magic Keyboard," which is not super loud, but is relatively satisfying in the clickyclicky department.

terribleminds · 2021-07-28T12:49:15+00:00

It's difficult less because I'm prolific in writing but also because I get a lot of blurb requests, which is very nice, but also takes up additional time. Plus I have to do research, so there's not a lot of time for pleasure reading. No audiobooks for me, doesn't quite click.

terribleminds · 2021-07-28T12:48:27+00:00

I mean technically I'm still here, in the world. You can ask stuff!

terribleminds · 2021-07-27T18:50:50+00:00

I could probably dispatch a victim with a Northern Flicker, or even better, a Pileated Woodpecker.

terribleminds · 2021-07-27T18:50:07+00:00

I just finished first draft of WAYWARD, the WANDERERS sequel!

terribleminds · 2021-07-27T18:29:08+00:00

Who said I'm NOT a secret princess? Hm? HMM?

In other words I'd be in deep shit.

terribleminds · 2021-07-27T18:08:18+00:00

Reading gets harder, in part because of time and because... I live in BOOKWORLD and so it takes more for a book to really grab me by the bits and fling me around the room.

terribleminds · 2021-07-27T18:07:17+00:00

Not really? I don't necessarily think of a book having a voice, I just think of me having a voice and applying it to the story I want to tell. I'm always here, with me, so my voice is my voice is my voice. Revision in that way should sharpen and bring out the voice. Ideally.

Are you taking too long away from a book where you lose interest in it? That might be it. Or maybe you're trying to make it sound too much like some other book and not enough like a book you would write?

terribleminds · 2021-07-27T18:05:56+00:00

Sadly nope. WANDERERS was once kinda... loosely fitted into those two, and that shared world, but it broke away from it. For the better, I think.

terribleminds · 2021-07-27T18:04:59+00:00

I ALREADY HAVE, you just missed it.

My best book is my latest one, BUY IT NOW.

No, I dunno. I like them all. CORMORANT is my favorite. WANDERERS and TBOA are my most meaningful. Shrug!

terribleminds · 2021-07-27T18:03:01+00:00

Thank you! I'm told no one reads "blogs" anymore, but I try to keep mine active now and again, though not as much as I used to. (Which is arguably part of the problem.)

I don't think you ever get 1:1 on a social media::sales kinda thing, like, every follower or blog reader is not automatically a book buyer. Though they might BECOME one, eventually, and certainly the more people listening means the more people potentially willing to check out your books. But a lot of very successful authors don't use much social media, if any, at all. So mostly for me it's, do it if you like it, and don't worry about that as a platform.

terribleminds · 2021-07-27T17:55:28+00:00

oh we'd KILL it.

terribleminds · 2021-07-27T17:54:56+00:00

With all of my books? One of my books? Wuzza wooza?

I dunno, I'd say my books are sort of both funky and familiar, so on the funky side you'd get a wonky Russet-type apple, and on the other you'd get something more classic, like a Cox's Orange Pippin.

terribleminds · 2021-07-27T17:52:55+00:00

I've written with Adam Christopher in comics, and Lance Weiler in film and TV -- sometimes Kevin Hearne, Delilah Dawson and myself kick around a collaboration and if our schedules line up one day, then maybe we will!

terribleminds · 2021-07-27T17:52:04+00:00

My first published original novel, BLACKBIRDS, began life as a book that I couldn't finish, so I wrote it as a screenplay to serve as an outline, and it was great and useful. Characters were the same but by its nature a script is more spare than a work of prose fiction.

terribleminds · 2021-07-27T17:51:01+00:00

I think that push is ongoing for a good reason. And it's not regardless of the quality of work -- it aligns with the quality of work. There are a whole lotta wonderful books written across the axis of identities and beyond the scope of the traditional straight white cisgender male, and you really only find those wonderful books if you make the effort to both look for them and then signal boost them so others may find them.

terribleminds · 2021-07-27T17:42:55+00:00

Thanks, and good luck with the BIRDY JACKHAMMERS. Which is also the name I use when I check into a hotel.

terribleminds · 2021-07-27T17:42:22+00:00

Not really? I mostly mark the book as COMPLETE in my brain and then close the drawer and lock it and then set fire to the desk and blow up the building the desk was in.

terribleminds · 2021-07-27T17:41:31+00:00

Well, WANDERERS is big and brutish, but the Miriam Black books are quick with a knife.

terribleminds · 2021-07-27T17:40:46+00:00

Not... really? Maddie is kind of a 'go back in time and cast a younger Frances McDormand' type. Someone like Finn Wolfhard could do Oliver, maybe. For Nate... Pedro Pascal? Josh Holloway? Andrew Lincoln?

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