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

3.0

I thought I was picking up a book on the usefulness of escapism, but instead it was a book on fiction writing. As that, it's a fine introductory course, but is not what the subtitle led me to think I was picking up. For how to get through hard times by making up stories, I'd suggest Judy reading the introduction and chapter 18.

Throughout, Anders felt 2 sentences away from drawing out life lessons (or self development or "how to be in the world") through the formational practice and metaphor of story...but then stays in the technical realm of writing. Perhaps a book that one of her readers will write.