Never Say You Can't Survive: How to Get Through Hard Times by Making Up Stories by Charlie Jane Anders

4.24 AVERAGE

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measlibrary's review against another edition

5.0
funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

vsobaka05's review against another edition

5.0
This was hugely inspirational and full of great writing advice. Anders feels like a friend you're chatting with, and she has so many good insights to offer.
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corvidarcana's review against another edition

4.0
inspiring
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mandameow's review against another edition

4.5
funny informative inspiring lighthearted reflective
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nicciobert's review against another edition

4.0
informative inspiring

swolf9's review against another edition

5.0
Never Say You Can’t Survive is part creative writing guidebook, part pep talk. Charlie Jane breaks down the writing process from something that can be intimidating to something accessible, liberating, and fun. I would recommend it to any aspiring writers, whether they intend to share their stories with the world or not.
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leonwingstein's review

4.0
informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

cpaul333's review against another edition

4.0
hopeful informative inspiring medium-paced
The author reads the audio book and it’s great!

elliquence's review against another edition

4.0
I quite enjoy Charlie Jane Anders, so I picked this up on a whim. While this was still a fun read, it is definitely geared toward writers or people who aspire to be writers.
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lorefiend's review against another edition

5.0
hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced
Listening to the audiobook edition of this book, there were numerous times that I had to hit pause so I could write down something particularly insightful Anders had written without missing the next nugget of wisdom, surely only a few seconds away. The density of useful, actionable writing advice in Never Say You Can’t Survive is such that I feel I will have to re-listen or re-read many times to glean every speck of wisdom from the text—not because Anders is difficult to follow in any way, but because there is simply that much useful advice here. Essential reading not just for queer speculative fiction writers but for just about every writer, and perhaps also for people who don’t consider themselves writers but wonder what possibilities would await them if they became one.