Never Say You Can’t Survive

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.