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Never Say You Can’t Survive

“You have the power to shape worlds, and the monsters are scared of you.”

From author Charlie Jane Anders, Never Say You Can’t Survive is a how-to book about the storytelling craft, but it’s also full of memoir, personal anecdote, and insight about how to flourish in the present emergency.

Never Say You Can’t Survive: Write The Book That Only You Could Have Written

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Never Say You Can’t Survive: Irony Doesn’t Have To Be the Enemy of Feels. They Can Team Up, In Fact!

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Never Say You Can’t Survive: When the World Goes Loopy, You Can Become a Master of Time and Space

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Never Say You Can’t Survive: A Strong Narrator Can Help You Weave a Spell of Protection

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Never Say You Can’t Survive: Find Your Voice and Make It LOUD

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Never Say You Can’t Survive: When Is It Okay To Write About Someone Else’s Culture or Experience?

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Never Say You Can’t Survive: Weirdness Gives Me the Strength To Keep Going

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Never Say You Can’t Survive: The Unexamined Story Is Not Worth Writing

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Never Say You Can’t Survive: Good Worldbuilding Shows How Things Could Be Different

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Never Say You Can’t Survive: How to Write a Political Story Without Falling on Your Face

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Never Say You Can’t Survive: Twelve Ways to Keep the Fun of Writing Alive

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Never Say You Can’t Survive: Revision Is the Process of Turning Fake Emotion Into Real Emotion

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Never Say You Can’t Survive: One Easy Way to Feel Better About the World

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Never Say You Can’t Survive: People Are Only as Interesting as Their Relationships

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Never Say You Can’t Survive: Hold On To Your Anger. It’s a Storytelling Goldmine

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Never Say You Can’t Survive: The Ending Is The Beginning

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Never Say You Can’t Survive: How to Tell a Thrilling Story Without Breaking Your Own Heart

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Never Say You Can’t Survive: A Good Plot Is Made Out of Two Things

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Never Say You Can’t Survive: The Most Powerful Thing a Story Can Do Is Show How People Change

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Never Say You Can’t Survive: The Secret to Storytelling? Just One Good Scene, and Then Another, and Another

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