Have you met Chuck Wendig? Well this is a picture of him, but usually he is attached to a body. He looks a bit bereft which is not a good description of him. In fact over at his hilarious, irreverent and twisted blog, Terrible Minds, he has a lot to say.
Chuck has taught me so much about writing, blogging, and publishing. I’ve even learned some new colorful cuss words. WARNING: He doesn’t pull any punches in fact he aims for your gut, so be ready.
This guy is brilliant. If it sounds like I am sucking up, I’m not. But he is running a contest. His open call for fan art is just in time for the release of his new novel Mockingbird and this is what I came up with. I played around with Microsoft Paint for the first time and had a blast mashing, drawing and painting. Who knew computers could be so much fun?
This piece of art needs a caption and here are some of mine:
It was a load off Chuck’s mind…
A moon with a view
“You can put me down now…”
Even with a head start, Chuck still felt he was beneath him.
Chuck became tired of head games
Don’t Ever Mock a Mockingbird
“I said, ‘Fly away, be free!’ Not ‘with me!'”
After a wild night of partying, Chuck was glad he had a ride home.
Follow @ChuckWendig on Twitter and click on this link to his blog. Pick up a book or eleven. Confessions of a Freelance Penmonkey is not only informative, but freaking hysterical! Tell him Susie sent you, but be careful. He may give your mind a twist.
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Susie Lindau's Wild Ride 
I follow Chuck on twitter, and have spent some time on his site.
I like “Don’t Ever Mock a Mockingbird”.
If you through in some cussing in one of them, your odds would probably go up…
Good luck!
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Thanks! He doesn’t want it captioned,thank God! I did these just for fun. I needed to send him a link to the art from my blog so here it is!
You are right about the cussing!
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I have like two minutes, but ‘Once in a Blue Moon’ Later/bye. ‘From Hair to Eternity’ might be one. ha ha!
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I love those! Hahaha!
Thanks Lilie!
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I’ve bounced across his blog a few times, but probably need to intentionally go out of my way…
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He is so funny! I especially like his writing posts. Thanks for stopping by. 🙂
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Clever title!!! hahaha!
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Thanks JM!
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Wow.. Susie, that really is so cool what you’ve done!! And hilarious.. I think he will love the art.. and any one of those captions is awesome!! Made my day:D
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Oh! Thanks so much Barbara! I used to be an illustrator back in the day, but had never used the computer to create. It was a fun project!
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I thought that was a pretty cool graphic, till I saw you did it… now it’s even cooler! Well done, Susie. I’ll check him out. I like ‘you can put me down now’.
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Thanks Ted! That is so nice of you to say!
You will love Chuck. He is one of a kind and a wealth of information.
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Sooooo well done!!
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Thank you so much! It was fun to use the program. I had always been skeptical of drawing with “Paint,” but it really felt like I was holding a pencil as I drew with my fingertip.
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Hahaha! Excellent. He should enjoy that one! I follow Chuck too! Have been know to cuss myself on occasion. Ahem.
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Thanks so much CC!
I have gotten so much worse since blogging! I think it is a combination of all the “colorful metaphors” I read all day and being alone most of the time! Hahaha! Danny comes home and Pow! I can string a bunch together before I know they are coming out of my mouth! Depends on the day!
Thanks again!
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Hahaha, love this – and the captions! I’m a photoshop girl myself; have been using it since it first came out – although I’m still on version #7, because I can’t afford their upgrades … the initial cost of the program was worth a few cuss words! (And the program well worth it, even if I’m behind!) Love your creation – and will be visiting Chuck’s blog! 😀
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Oh that’s great Julie! I am sooooo behind. I was a medical illustrator and haven’t made the transition into computer graphics until now!
Thanks so much! Chuck is a riot!
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Thanks for the referral. I’ll check his site out.
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Great!
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I love the Paint job, Susie. It’s gorgeous, Halloweeny. And I agree with El Guapo that you need only throw into your captions much gratuitous vulgarity, ostensibly for effect, and you’ll have a (motherfucking) winner.
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Thank you so much!
I guess it took some artwork to get you to stop in again. Good to see you Pulpman!
Chuck would love your comment! It didn’t need a caption, I just threw those out there for fun.
Don’t be a stranger…. 🙂
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Clever captions! I think Chuck is going to love them! And you’re right he is a hoot!
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I created the artwork for him, but the captions are for me! Part of the contest rules were no words…. It will be fun to see what others came up with!
Thanks Patricia!
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I am at a loss for words. I can usually come up with something pretty quick in these instances, but not today. Birds pooping humand heads and toupees comes to mind, but I can’t figure out how to tie them together. And then there’s the moon. Don’t know what to do wih that.
Quote the Raven, neve more? Nope. I got nothing.
Too much to think about on a Wednesday afternoon.
Patricia Rickrode
w/a Jansen Schmidt
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That was a great effort Patricia! Nevermore is right!
Thanks so much!
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Amazing as always! His face has a very sarcastic “You can put me down now” written all over it.
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Thanks so much! I got that photo from Google. I embellished it a little to give something for the bird to hold onto! 🙂
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Mine for fun would be a flight of fancy about having a head for heights … yes, yuckity yuck-yuck.
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