novella42 's review for:

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

5.0

emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted reflective relaxing medium-paced

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Phenomenal book, so helpful!!! I need to write a better review, but for now I'll just say I adore this woman and everything she says that gave me back my sense of being able to write for my own reasons, with the hope of healing through deeply traumatic experiences. I've been trying to write a cozy fantasy in 2024-25 because it's desperately what I need, but this book inspired me to write a story to su mit to a dystopian anthology and it came with an ease that surprised me. Her support and willingness to admit her own imperfections and talk about doing a dozen rewrites was exactly what I needed to hear. Her thoughts on craft were ABSOLUTELY worthy of winning a Hugo. I'm so grateful.