How to Get Through Hard Times by Making Up Stories
Hardcover, 288 pages
Langue : English
Publié 17 août 2021 par Tordotcom.
The world is on fire. So tell your story.
Things are scary right now. We’re all being swept along by a tidal wave of history, and it’s easy to feel helpless. But we’re not helpless: we have minds, and imaginations, and the ability to visualize other worlds and valiant struggles. And writing can be an act of resistance that reminds us that other futures and other ways of living are possible.
Full of memoir, personal anecdote, and insight about how to flourish during the present emergency, Never Say You Can’t Survive is the perfect manual for creativity in unprecedented times.
I appreciated the writing advice, but more than that, the personal insights from Charlie Jane. This is a book about writing, but it’s also kind of a memoir about being a writer; she expertly uses her own experiences, and most importantly, mistakes, to make points that always land on the affirming and inspirational side of the rhetorical garden. It’s a warm book, written by someone who very obviously cares, and very obviously wants to help. That counts for a lot.
Charlie Jane Anders provides a throughout and heartfelt expression of not only what it means to be a writer in the modern day, but how to push through the rougher patches. This guide-book for the troublesome days of writing is full of inspirations, references, suggestions, and more. My only complaint is that I wish the book has a glossary of recommended media!
