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Never Say You Can’t Survive
A review of

Never Say You Can’t Survive

How to Get Through Hard Times by Making Up Stories


Write Who You Are

by David Meyer

Award-winning science fiction author Charlie Jane Anders offers a rich, emotional primer to facing your fears, channeling your emotions and sitting down to write.

Combining memoir, personal anecdotes and writing advice, award-winning science fiction and fantasy author Charlie Jane Anders offers guidance for authors: developing characters, mapping plots, imagining new worlds and overcoming writer’s block and imposter syndrome. Inspired by events in her own life and in the world, Anders promotes creativity as an antidote to powerlessness, and imagination as an act of resistance.

Adversity

Due to a learning difficulty, Charlie Jane Anders struggled in school, but one teacher noticed her skill for writing, and encouraged her to develop her talent. Anders’s ability to create fantasy worlds blossomed.