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.

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The repository contains scripts to generate an ebook in the EPUB format from the posts at tor.com. More details at https://www.tor.com/series/never-say-you-cant-survive-by-charlie-jane-anders/.

Support the author by getting the book at Amazon.com, Indiebound, Barnes and Noble. Audiobook available on Audible.

How to run

With Docker

docker pull captn3m0/never-say-you-cant-survive
docker run --rm --volume "$(pwd):/output" captn3m0/never-say-you-cant-survive:latest

The generated file will get created in your current directory.

If you are on Windows, instead run:

docker pull captn3m0/never-say-you-cant-survive
docker run --rm --volume "//c/:/output" captn3m0/never-say-you-cant-survive:latest

and the generated ebook will be created in the C:\never-say-you-cant-survive.epub.

Without Docker

Dependencies: ruby, wget, pandoc

git clone https://github.com/captn3m0/never-say-you-cant-survive.git
cd never-say-you-cant-survive
bundle install
./generate.sh

Your generated ebook should be available at never-say-you-cant-survive.epub

Contents

(All links to Tor.com)

Section I - Introduction

1. [How To Make Your Own Imaginary Friends][c1]
2. [Imposter Syndrome Is Just Part of Being a Writer][c2]
3. [Embrace Uncertainty: The Joy of Making a Giant Mess][c3]
4. [Everything Is Broken! What Should I Write About?][c4]

Section II - What’s A Story, and How Do You Find One?

1. [Don’t Be Afraid to Go on Lots of First Dates With Story Ideas][c5]
2. [The Secret to Storytelling? Just One Good Scene, and Then Another and Another][c6]
3. [The Most Powerful Thing a Story Can Do Is Show How People Change][c7]
4. [A Good Plot Is Made Out of Two Things][c8]
5. [How to Tell a Thrilling Story Without Breaking Your Own Heart][c9]
6. [The Ending Is The Beginning][c10]

Section III - Your Feelings are Valid—and Powerful

1. [Hold On To Your Anger. It’s a Storytelling Goldmine][c11]
2. [People Are Only as Interesting as Their Relationships][c12]
3. [One Easy Way to Feel Better About the World][c13]
4. [Revision Is the Process of Turning Fake Emotion Into Real Emotion][c14]
5. [Twelve Ways to Keep the Fun of Writing Alive][c15]

Section IV - What We Write About When We Write About Spaceships

1. [How to Write a Political Story Without Falling on Your Face][c16]
2. [Good Worldbuilding Shows How Things Could Be Different][c17]
3. [The Unexamined Story Is Not Worth Writing][c18]
4. [Weirdness Gives Me the Strength To Keep Going][c19]
5. [When Is It Okay To Write About Someone Else’s Culture or Experience?][c20]

Section V: How to Use Writerly Tricks to Gain Unstoppable Powers

1. [Find Your Voice and Make It LOUD][c21]
2. [A Strong Narrator Can Help You Weave a Spell of Protection][c22]
3. [When the World Goes Loopy, You Can Become a Master of Time and Space][c23]
4. [Irony Doesn’t Have To Be the Enemy of Feels. They Can Team Up, In Fact!][c24]
5. [Write The Book That Only You Could Have Written][c25]

License

Licensed under the MIT License. See LICENSE file for details.

Other Projects

A list of my other EBook generation projects: https://captnemo.in/ebooks/.