Skip to content
Answering Your Questions About Reactor: Right here.
Sign up for our weekly newsletter. Everything in one handy email.

Never Say You Can’t Survive: How to Tell a Thrilling Story Without Breaking Your Own Heart

Home / Columns / Never Say You Can’t Survive

Never Say You Can’t Survive

“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.

Never Say You Can’t Survive: How To Get Through Hard Times By Making Up Stories

By
Comment number: 19

Never Say You Can’t Survive: Imposter Syndrome Is Just Part of Being a Writer

By
Comment number: 8

Never Say You Can’t Survive: Embrace Uncertainty: The Joy of Making a Giant Mess

By
Comment number: 5

Never Say You Can’t Survive: Everything Is Broken! What Should I Write About?

By
Comment number: 6

Never Say You Can’t Survive: Don’t Be Afraid to Go on Lots of First Dates With Story Ideas

By
Comment number: 4

Never Say You Can’t Survive: The Secret to Storytelling? Just One Good Scene, and Then Another, and Another

By
Comment number: 3

Never Say You Can’t Survive: The Most Powerful Thing a Story Can Do Is Show How People Change

By
Comment number: 1

Never Say You Can’t Survive: A Good Plot Is Made Out of Two Things

By
Comment number: 1

Never Say You Can’t Survive: How to Tell a Thrilling Story Without Breaking Your Own Heart

By
Comment number: 2

Never Say You Can’t Survive: The Ending Is The Beginning

By
Comment number: 0

Never Say You Can’t Survive: Hold On To Your Anger. It’s a Storytelling Goldmine

By
Comment number: 2

Never Say You Can’t Survive: People Are Only as Interesting as Their Relationships

By
Comment number: 0

Never Say You Can’t Survive: One Easy Way to Feel Better About the World

By
Comment number: 2

Never Say You Can’t Survive: Revision Is the Process of Turning Fake Emotion Into Real Emotion

By
Comment number: 1

Never Say You Can’t Survive: Twelve Ways to Keep the Fun of Writing Alive

By
Comment number: 4

Never Say You Can’t Survive: How to Write a Political Story Without Falling on Your Face

By
Comment number: 0

Never Say You Can’t Survive: Good Worldbuilding Shows How Things Could Be Different

By
Comment number: 1

Never Say You Can’t Survive: The Unexamined Story Is Not Worth Writing

By
Comment number: 0

Never Say You Can’t Survive: Weirdness Gives Me the Strength To Keep Going

By
Comment number: 17

Never Say You Can’t Survive: When Is It Okay To Write About Someone Else’s Culture or Experience?

By

“There is an art to smiling in a way that others will believe. It is always important to include the eyes; otherwise, people will know you hate them.”

N.K. Jemisin, The Fifth Season

TPG 2024 • Site Credit