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“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.
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The repository contains scripts to generate an ebook in the EPUB format from the posts at tor.com. More details at .
The book is available for pre-order at [Amazon.com](https://www.amazon.com/Never-Say-You-Cant-Survive-ebook/dp/B08JK8XD1N) or [Indiebound](https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781250800015).
## Contents
Section I - Introduction
- How To Make Your Own Imaginary Friends
- Imposter Syndrome Is Just Part of Being a Writer
- Embrace Uncertainty: The Joy of Making a Giant Mess
- Everything Is Broken! What Should I Write About?
Section II - What’s A Story, and How Do You Find One?
- Don’t Be Afraid to Go on Lots of First Dates With Story Ideas
- The Secret to Storytelling? Just One Good Scene, and Then Another, and Another.
- The Most Powerful Thing a Story Can Do Is Show How People Change
- A Good Plot Is Made Out of Two Things
- How to Tell a Thrilling Story Without Breaking Your Own Heart
- The Ending Is The Beginning
Section III - Your Feelings are Valid—and Powerful
- Hold On To Your Anger. It’s a Storytelling Goldmine
- People Are Only as Interesting as Their Relationships
- One Easy Way to Feel Better About the World
- Revision Is the Process of Turning Fake Emotion Into Real Emotion
- Twelve Ways to Keep the Fun of Writing Alive
Section IV - What We Write About When We Write About Spaceships
- How to Write a Political Story Without Falling on Your Face
- Good Worldbuilding Shows How Things Could Be Different
- The Unexamined Story Is Not Worth Writing
- Weirdness Gives Me the Strength To Keep Going
- When Is It Okay To Write About Someone Else’s Culture or Experience?
## License
Licensed under the [MIT License](https://nemo.mit-license.org/). See LICENSE file for details.