Creating New Climate Stories with Sarah Lewis

How do neurodivergent creatives function when we can’t executive function? What do we really mean when we say we want to be productive? And what does climate change have to do with our creative process?

In this episode I talk to co-founder of Writer’s HQ and award-winning environmental journalist Sarah Lewis about the climate stories we tell and our struggles in telling them. Plus, Sarah explains what she thinks is missing from climate fiction these days, the limited kinds of apocalypse stories we hear, and what kind of stories we might want to try telling instead. At the end she also shares a juicy list of reading recommendations!

Subscribe to follow her work at fictionalsarah.substack.com, or find her on basically any platform as fictionalsarah.

For a transcript, check the tab on the web version of this post (but pls blame all typos on Substack’s AI, which created it)

Links:

* The inspo for this chat: Inner Worlds vs. Outer Worlds [Fictional Sarah]

* We Need A New Word For Climate Change [Fictional Sarah]

* When the Hero is the Problem by Rebecca Solnit

* Joseph Campbell and the Myth of the Monomyth video essay by Maggie Mae Fish

* Thrust by Lidia Yuknavitch

* The Gondoliers by Karen Russell (read as a campfire story by The Woburn Public Library!)

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