A Very Good Piece Of Creative Advice From Tom Morello As a cantankerous alt-rock grunge-loving teenager, I was not particularly a Rage Against the Machine guy — I mean, I liked the music but it didn’t connect with me, and my theory now as …

Good stuff #creativity #music #politics #terribleminds #guitar

Five Things You Learned As A Writer Writing That Cool Thing You Wrote? Dear Writer Types: a reminder that this blog is a place where, if you have a book coming out, you can submit to me for a Five Things I Learned Writing [insert your book name here] guest post! If yo…

A fresh 2025 reminder about the FIVE THINGS I LEARNED WRITING [your book] at #terribleminds -- how it works, how to submit, all that. If you're a writer with a book coming out, it's a thing you can do if you want! Or don't! YOUR CHOICES ARE YOUR OWN, FRAIL MORTAL

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How To Write Words And Make Art In This Dire Era of Clowns and Cowards If you’re not a person who agrees that we are living through some spectacularly stupid and nasty shit, then I suppose this post isn’t for you. You think things are some variant of norma…

At the blog, some effort to grapple with making art and writing stories when everything is some combination of evil and absurd -- #terribleminds

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That B&N Preorder Sale Listen, it’s the time of the year when B&N offers a pretty nice deal on preordered books, and so of course every author in the world is like AHHHH PLEASE PREORDER MY BOOK, and honestly, i…

HELLO. That cool B&N preorder thing is happening and a couple of my hooks qualify — but I also took some time to shout out some other cool preorderable books you might wanna check out:

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Generative A.I. For Writers: An Unfolding (But Not Inevitable) Nightmare! I have seen the sentiment around that generative AI for writers and artists is “inevitable,” which is a message that I think falls right in line with the myth of the starving artist &#8…

On this DAY OF LIES, I went ahead and popped up a (probably too long sorry) post about the lie of AI inevitability, and how it'll come for our writing in unexpected, insidious ways:

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Hold Still, I Have Three Very Cool Things To Announce Don’t run! I have cool stuff to talk about! Do not make me use the tranq darts again, please. You know how how you get when you’re full of the sleepytime juice. “Oh, I’m so …

In which I announce three (okay mayyyyybe four) cool things at ye olde blog, remember those, blogs, wow. #terribleminds

Defying God, I Drank The Doritos Juice It was maybe a few months ago where Empirical announced they were making and releasing DORITOS HOOCH, which is to say, alcoholic Dorito juice. I said at the time, this is the booze of bad decisions…

Defying god, I drank the Doritos Juice. #terribleminds (cc: @andreagrimes.bsky.social, who also drank the Zesty Nacho Hooch)

Digging A Grave For 2023, As 2024 Struggles To Be Born Well! I see we find ourselves once again at the turn of the tide. The one year recedes. Another year washes up in its place, eating all the sandcastles you made. Washing away your footprints. Time,…

Over at the blog, a year-end accounting of 2023, and a look forward to the year ahead. #terribleminds

Why Aren’t There More Pandemic Novels, Anyway? It’s weird being in the midst of a pandemic and then watching a film or a show or reading a book set in the absolute present where… there appears to have never been a pandemic. Right? E…

A lot of nonsense fell out of my brain at #terribleminds when considering the question of why we don't talk more about the pandemic in popular fiction. I offer no answers, so expect little wisdom here, but I felt like rambling, so away we go:

The Weird Holiday Nowheretimes (And Why Knowing Thyself Matters) You know how if you have, say, an Important Meeting or Significant Task To Do set at a certain time in the day, that in the run-up to that thing you mostly just sit on your hands waiting for that t…

At #terribleminds, I'm talking about these weird liminal holiday weeks and also why knowing yourself as a writer (and as a regular ol' messy human) matters.

The Terribleminds Gift Guide 2023 So, once again this year I tackle the onerous task of offering you COOL GIFTS FOR COOL PEOPLE IN YOUR LIFE. Once upon a time, this was more a “gifts for writers” but honestly, the best …

Oh also, the #terribleminds gift guide is live -- art! books! food stuff! writer stuff! more art! go look! or don't! I'm not your father! not yet! not until I repair my time machine! I should stop typing now!

Psst, Leave A Review (And Why Leaving A review Matters) art by the amazing Natalie Metzger! Reviews matter for books and their authors. Let’s unpack why, a little bit. Though some of this (maybe even all of this) will be blisteringly obvious, I fe…

A little bit at #terribleminds about why reviews matter for authors --

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Should You Quit Writing? Well, fuck. Yesterday, I said, Hey, Ask Me For Advice. And a lot of you jumped in and asked great questions. Which is awesome. It’s gonna take me some time to pick through and find suitable q…

RT @ChuckWendig: Should you quit writing? Hold still while I yell at you. terribleminds.com/ramble/2015/03/23/should... #terribleminds x.com/ChuckWendig/status/58035...

Why It’s Important To Finish Your Shit Maybe you’re doing NaNoWriMo. Maybe you’re not. Honestly, I don’t give a pony’s patoot — NaNoWriMo is, always, and has been a bit of a stalking horse. It creeps up on …

RT @ChuckWendig: WHY IT IS IMPORTANT TO FINISH YOUR SHIT. Stand still and let me yell at you. terribleminds.com/ramble/2014/11/26/why-it... #terribleminds

Ten Things To Never Say To A Writer “You Know, I Wanna Write A Book Someday.” They say this to you with this wistful gleam in their eye, as if writing is just a hobby, like it’s just some distant silliness that they…

AHAHHAHAHAHA Awesome! RT @ChuckWendig: ICYMI: Ten things you proooooobably shouldn't say to a writer: http://ht.ly/BA5xg #terribleminds

Ten Things I’d Like To Say To Young Writers More and more I’m allowed the benefit of corrupting the m...

RT @ChuckWendig: HEED MY WISDOM, YOUNG PUNKS. Ahem. Ten things I wanna say to young writers —> terribleminds.com/ramble/2014/04/16/ten-th... #terribleminds

25 Steps To Edit The Unmerciful Suck Out Of Your Story I’m editing a book right now. It is its own happy brand o...

RT @ChuckWendig: 25 Steps To Edit The Unmerciful Suck Out Of Your Story #terribleminds. terribleminds.com/ramble/2013/09/10/25-ste...

25 Things Writers Should Beware The act of writing is awesome. The business of writing is...

RT @ChuckWendig: 25 Things Writers Should Beware. At #terribleminds today. terribleminds.com/ramble/2013/03/05/25-thi...

@ChuckWendig This calls for knuckle art! #BTFO

#BTFO, yo!RT @chuckwendig: "Why Writers Drink." At #terribleminds.