Wildbow

John Charles McCrae, known online as Wildbow, is the creator of the Pact universe (Pact, Pale, Poke, and Pact Dice) as well as the Parahumans series (an original superhero universe) and Twig. He maintains a blog where he discusses his writing, as well as regularly interacting with fans online. He's occasionally active on Wikia as Wildbowpig, although he hasn't edited the Pact Wiki as yet.<ref>User Contributions for Wildbowpig</ref> His Patreon, where you can support his work, is here.

Background

Wildbow was born in 1984 and grew up in Ottawa, Canada.<ref>"F.A.Q." on Parahumans 2</ref> He has been writing since the seventh grade. He studied English and Applied Linguistics in university.<ref name=":0">[https://worm.fandom.com/wiki/User:Wildbowpig Wildbow's user profile on Worm Wiki</ref> He's been outspoken about his experiences growing up deaf, with the use of a cochlear implant.<ref>Interview with Wildbow - T4nky</ref>

Web Serials

McCrae has written six online serials, with Seek ongoing, each comparable to a series of books:<ref name=":1">Wildbow's Patreon</ref>

• Worm
• Pact
• Twig
• Ward
• Pale
• Claw
• Seek - Ongoing

He began writing web serials as a way to encourage himself to follow a schedule and stick with a project long-term.<ref name=":0" /> Wildbow has followed much the same update schedule since the beginning of Worm, with essentially no breaks - a chapter posted every Tuesday and Saturday, with regular bonus chapters. This is roughly equivelent to a book being released every month.<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":2">Interview with Wildbow - Balloon Day Creative</ref>

Several of his stories reference each other. Maggie Holt exists as the protagonist of a popular book and film series in the Parahumans universe; while Weaver Dice (the Parahumans RPG) exists in the world of Pact, and Twig is implied to exist as a series or genre of movie.

Other Projects

Wildbow has written a number of shorter "teasers" or "warmups" for potential web serials, some of which are viewable on his blog.<ref>Pig's Pen - Snippets & Samples</ref><ref name=":2" /> Poke could be considered to fall into this category.

Wildbow interacts regularly with his own fandom, and this has extended to helping with or running interactive role-playing games, writing considerable amounts of original content for his settings in the process. Most of these are for the Parahumans setting, but they also include Pact Dice.

Wildbow has been involved in several projects to adapt his works into other media, but thus far they have all fallen through. He's stated that he's reluctant to make early announcements about such projects as a result.<ref name=":2" />

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