Fear, Grief, and Writing
Welcome to our writerly group therapy session. Grab a comfy chair, grab a drink, make a blanket fort, put your hood up, whatever you need to feel comfortable. Don’t worry, […]
Why Stories Are So Important To Climate Change
The Final Act, or is it?
Over this course we’ve covered a lot of ground, emotionally and practically. We started by saying that we needed new ideas, a new language, and new stories and we middled […]
Exercise: The New Language Of Climate Change
Throughout the course we have been looking more at high concept ideas than down-and-dirty nuts-and-bolts story ideas, apart from a couple of times we’ve asked you to do a four […]
The New Language Of Climate Change
As mentioned earlier in the course, one of the common refrains of activists or change-makers is that we need a new language to discuss climate change. I’ve always wondered: what […]
Exercise: A Lonely World
Blanket forts at the ready. We’re going in hard for this first unit. Climate change is already here. We are in the sixth great extinction. The insects are first against […]
From Huge Theme To Ordinary Life
Climate change is a massive subject – quite literally a planet-sized issue. There’s a temptation to say ‘apocalyptic’ here but that is problematic because the end of the world is […]
A VERY IMPORTANT DISCLAIMER
YOU DO NOT HAVE TO BE INDIVIDUALLY PERFECT TO DISCUSS, WORRY ABOUT, WRITE ABOUT, OR CARE ABOUT CLIMATE CHANGE Our world makes hypocrites out of all of us. We can’t […]
**Start here** Welcome to Writing In The Time Of Climate Change
WELCOME CLIMATE WRITERS *Read this before you start* You made it! Well done. We’re super proud of you. In times like these, sometimes even showing up is hard, but you’ve […]
