The easiest way to separate yourself from the unformed blobby mass of "aspiring" writers is to a) actually write and b) actually finish. That's how e…

- Chuck Wendig

Nobody becomes a writer overnight. Well, I'm sure somebody did, but that person's head probably went all asplodey from paroxysms of joy, fear, parano…

- Chuck Wendig

Writing is the act of creation. Put words on page. Words to sentences, sentences to paragraphs, paragraphs to 7-book epic fantasy cycles with books s…

- Chuck Wendig

Write like you write, like you can't help but write, and your voice will become yours and yours alone. It'll take time but it'll happen as long as yo…

- Chuck Wendig

Read your work out loud. Don't give me that look. Read your work aloud. Don't argue. Don't fight. It will help. I promise. I promise. I guarantee it.…

- Chuck Wendig

Characters exist in a flat line until we challenge them - sometimes they challenge themselves, sometimes they're challenged by other people, by natur…

- Chuck Wendig

Remember: a story is not a vignette. It has a beginning, middle and an end. It is not merely a snapshot in time.

- Chuck Wendig

Enter the story as late as you can.

- Chuck Wendig

In my mind, only one inviolable precept exists in terms of being a successful writer: you have to write. The unspoken sub-laws of that one precept ar…

- Chuck Wendig