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The wolf-coyote hybrid. We call him Commander Bonethunder. I installed an electronic voice box in his throat so we can communicate.
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Okay, no such dog exists. I can't label one of my dogs as a favorite. Stop that. Don't get crazy. -
asked by rhapsodybelle
I'm torn. The current rewrite of the script of our film (HiM) is really hitting home for me, and I'm digging it like I'd never expected. Further, this script has taken me to some great places.
The novel, though, is a thing really born out of my own pulsing, messy heart, and the main character is just such a fuck-up and a profane girl I love her dearly.
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Yes and no?
I expected that my 30s would be the Decade Of The Novel, that sometime during this decade I'd be good enough at novel writing to have one that was publishable, and that it would happen, and maybe there'd be unicorns and rainbows and a talking sun who cheers me up when I'm sad.
So, outside of the hallucinations of unicorn, sun and rainbow, I have an agent for the novel, so I seem to be on that path.
I didn't expect to be doing the screenplay thing. I never planned that. I fell into it and I still feel like I'm cheating and that someone will catch me and kick me out of the club.
Clearly, that's a plus, though, not a minus -- I'm really enjoying that part of my life.
Otherwise, far as career goes, I've been pretty on target. Usually, if I set my mind to something, I find a way to make it happen. I wanted to write for White Wolf, so I wrote for White Wolf.
I did not expect to be married, necessarily. Marriage was a shaky subject; I distrusted it as an institution. I no longer distrust the institution, but do continue to think that many people who get married should not.
Obviously, the "got married" part is another good step up and a nice surprise. :)
So, a lot is in line with what I expected. The stuff that isn't is a good surprise, not a bad one.
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Is it weird to say, don't have one? Used to be horror, but I don't read any one genre exclusively.
I say, good is good. I just want good books, films, whatever. Genre or no.
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Oh, man, I let slip one word, and I'm pinned to the corkboard like a butterfly! Dang.
Hey, I said it, so, ermmm.
First, passion isn't needless. We all need passion.
But a lot of geeks are passionate about Shit That Doesn't Really Matter. You can see it in how they get up in arms about things like, ohhh, Star Wars. It's just not that important. So, passion is good, but passion can either be turned into a negative thing, or it can be something that maybe would be better suited toward something more important.
I'm passionate about geek stuff, so I don't think it's bad, per se -- but it can *become* bad and *become* needless.
To clarify.
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This is a very silly question, because I would die before too long of malnutrition or a heart attack.
If you're pointing a gun at me and I have to answer:
Cheese. Because even one kind of cheese can have a variety of flavors depending on the cow, the grass, the location, the process, the time. Bacon has less possible variety, though I love it more. -
I do not consider myself a nerd, actually. Technically, I think I'm more "geek" than "nerd," which is not a compliment to me.
Nerds get shit done. Nerds are usually big-time intelligent. Geeks can be anybody with a needless passion for... well, anything. Car geek, computer geek, coffee geek. -
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Let it plague you no longer.
Franklin's a smart guy, but he's a portly dude. And a heavy beer-drinker. Twain'll be lighter on his feet, and he is also more likely to possess TESLA WEAPONS given his friendship with the crazy scientist.
Franklin will get in his shots, but ultimately, Twain prevails. -
Drawing. I would love to learn how to draw. Proper-like.
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Porn. Scotch. Guns. Porn.
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Ahem, no. In general, for everybody, the best thing is the confidence to know who you are and what you want out of life. Only then do things start to make sense.
As for me personally, my wife and my writing. -
White Wolf put out a writer's all call, and I answered it. One thousand words about Hunter: The Reckoning.
I wrote some cockamamied essay about the difference between an external and an internal locus of control, and about how H:tR represented a shift from one (external) to the other (internal).
They bought my nonsense, and hired me.
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Well, the one that's publicly announced is Hunter: Compacts & Conspiracies. Not sure when that releases -- it's an AP PDF. Eddy Webb would know.
But, one is unannounced, as yet -- and should be out sometime this spring. That project will kick you in the face. It's insane. It'll asplode your guts all over your computer monitor. It'll drop Rufies in your drink and have its way with your supine body.
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Chuck Wendig’s Bio
Novelist. Screenwriter. Game designer. Freelance penmonkey.
