Blog of the Week: Terribleminds

here is frankly no excuse for why I didn’t do the Terribleminds blog earlier. Frankly there are quite a few author blogs that I absolutely love, but I have to say Chuck Wendig’s Terribleminds blog has to be one of my favorites.

I first discovered the Terribleminds blog from StumbleUpon (an addictive site which shows you parts of the internet you’ve likely never traversed before, based on topics you like), in which he wrote a blog post discussing the dangers of dating an author. Which is perhaps my favorite blog post of all time. Some of his pronouncements: like the one that authors really do control their characters no matter what we say to the contrary, I can’t say that I all together agreed with, but overall I view the blog post (and I think one or two others) as required reading material for any potential husband in my future, and you should too. It’s important that any potential love interest (be they male or female) know what they’re getting themselves into by dating you. You may not fit all of the characteristics, but if you’re an author and you’re completely honest with yourself (which writing this I realize is sort of an oxymoron) then you probably already know that a lot of what he says is true.

We are control freaks, compulsive liars (I’m not, I swear), we always believe we’re right no matter what, don’t argue you’re probably wrong and sometimes we make things more dramatic than they really are. I don’t! Drama just follows me.

The point is… authors are assholes awesome. We’re full of shit because we have to be, it’s a part of the job description (or it should be). Chuck Wendig tells it like it is. And I respect that.

PS: I’m gonna start using that gif more often. Especially when I should be writing.