{"id":12473,"date":"2012-01-26T00:01:11","date_gmt":"2012-01-26T05:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/?p=12473"},"modified":"2012-01-25T21:16:58","modified_gmt":"2012-01-26T02:16:58","slug":"wheres-wendig","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/2012\/01\/26\/wheres-wendig\/","title":{"rendered":"Where&#8217;s Wendig?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First, I&#8217;ll tell you where Wendig is &#8212; Wendig is neck-deep in wordsmithy. That&#8217;s not a <em>bad thing<\/em>, obviously, but it&#8217;s the kind of thing where every time I blink, I get inkdrops on my eyelashes. I&#8217;m keeping my head above the word count, thankfully, but just last night a<em> brand new thing<\/em> dropped into my lap (in short: someone&#8217;s looking for an awesome pitch about something by, drum roll please, Monday).<\/p>\n<p>So, what that means is that you, the casual audience, gets treated to another bullshit &#8220;this is what Chuck is up to and where you can find that rambling jackass on the web&#8221; kinda post.<\/p>\n<p>No need to thank me. Or fling your panties at my front porch.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway. Where I be?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Blogradio interview at: <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a title=\"http:\/\/readersentertainment.com\/2012\/interview-with-chuck-wendig\/\" href=\"http:\/\/readersentertainment.com\/2012\/interview-with-chuck-wendig\/\">Canned Laughter and Coffee<\/a><\/strong><\/span>. Where I discuss flinging panties. And zombies.<\/p>\n<p>An interview with me at <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a title=\"http:\/\/galileogames.com\/2012\/01\/second-base-an-interview-with-chuck-wendig\/\" href=\"http:\/\/galileogames.com\/2012\/01\/second-base-an-interview-with-chuck-wendig\/\">Galileo Games<\/a><\/strong><\/span> about, well, <em>zombies<\/em> again. (It&#8217;s a theme, I guess?)<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a title=\"http:\/\/how-you-die.tumblr.com\/\" href=\"http:\/\/how-you-die.tumblr.com\/\">This Is How You Die<\/a><\/strong><\/span> has collected close to 20 pages of submissions by now. It&#8217;s been an an interesting experience so far. (And we&#8217;ve had one musical submission!) Definitely hoping to see more art- or photo-based submissions over time. Given the Tumblr&#8217;s thematic (and sometimes narrative) connection to <strong>BLACKBIRDS<\/strong>, Angry Robot <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a title=\"Chuck Wendig Asks, &quot;How Will You Die?&quot;\" href=\"http:\/\/angryrobotbooks.com\/2012\/01\/chuck-wendig-asks-how-will-you-die\/\">posted a tidbit at their blog<\/a><\/strong><\/span>. One thing that creeps me out: searching the &#8220;death&#8221; tag across Tumblr. You find some interesting stuff there, some compelling ideas and poems and whatever. But you also find a lot of talk about suicide. And you occasionally find very disturbing images of dead bodies. Sometimes murdered. Sometimes children. The Internet is a weird-ass place to live, sometimes.<\/p>\n<p>I might be in LA at some point soon. Where my LA peeps at?<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I find it hard to believe that a person who mistakes vulgarity for humor has advice worth pursuing. Do yourself a favor and buy a book written by a grown-up.&#8221; Aww. <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a title=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/review\/R3DDTT2OGDCG4U\/ref=cm_cr_pr_perm?ie=UTF8&amp;ASIN=B0062A7QHW&amp;nodeID=&amp;tag=&amp;linkCode=\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/review\/R3DDTT2OGDCG4U\/ref=cm_cr_pr_perm?ie=UTF8&amp;ASIN=B0062A7QHW&amp;nodeID=&amp;tag=&amp;linkCode=\">How sweet<\/a><\/strong><\/span>! (Er, out of all seriousness, I&#8217;m not asking folks to go and respond to her. Her review is her review, if you can call it that. Mostly I like these kind of reviews &#8212; &#8220;He&#8217;s got a poo-poo mouth!&#8221; &#8212; because they end up selling the book far better than I ever could.)<\/p>\n<p>Did you participate in the &#8220;Three Sentences For Bear71&#8221; flash fiction challenge? Some of your stories may be popping up at the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a title=\"http:\/\/iambear71.tumblr.com\/\" href=\"http:\/\/iambear71.tumblr.com\/\">&#8220;I Am Bear71&#8221; Tumblr<\/a><\/strong><\/span>. Bear71 is at Sundance as we speak.<\/p>\n<p>Okay, this isn&#8217;t about me (I know, I hear your bleats of disappointment), but I am reminded (courtesy of Eddy Webb) that Cyanide &amp; Happiness is awesome. If you read webcomics, I&#8217;m always looking for suggestions. <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a title=\"http:\/\/www.explosm.net\/comics\/2680\/\" href=\"http:\/\/www.explosm.net\/comics\/2680\/\">This particular strip of C&amp;H<\/a><\/strong><\/span> is a nice jab at our current consumption culture.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And I think that&#8217;s all she wrote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First, I&#8217;ll tell you where Wendig is &#8212; Wendig is neck-deep in wordsmithy. That&#8217;s not a bad thing, obviously, but it&#8217;s the kind of thing where every time I blink, I get inkdrops on my eyelashes. I&#8217;m keeping my head above the word count, thankfully, but just last night a brand new thing dropped into my lap (in short: someone&#8217;s looking for an awesome pitch about something by, drum roll please, Monday).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[11],"class_list":{"0":"post-12473","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-theramble","7":"tag-chuckwendig","9":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pv7MR-3fb","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12473"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12477,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12473\/revisions\/12477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}