Saving the World One Word at a Time: Writing Cli-Fi - Softcover

Discover how writing fiction can make the world a better place. This book offers instruction, inspiration and prompts for writing cli-fi - speculative fiction that focuses primarily on the ways that climate change is transforming our world. Explore how plot, place and character development can make climate change personal. By anticipating and elaborating on the future implications of climate change, writers of cli-fi use knowledge of science and climate to imagine and create apocalyptic or dystopian worlds with the goal of changing how humans think about, inhabit and interact with our planet. Place your writing at the forefront of efforts to reimagine the message and the messengers of climate change, taking the issue out of politics and into the realm of the personal.

Ellen Szabo practices and promotes the use of creative writing for personal investigation, enrichment and social change. She earned her B.A. from Harvard College, with a concentration in English and American Literature, and her M.Ed. from Columbia University Teacher’s College, in Counseling Psychology. She writes and teaches with a focus on how innovation and creativity can illuminate, inspire and advocate compassionate transformation. She teaches Creative Writing for Social Work at the University of Iowa School of Social Work. Her private practice, based in Cape Ann, Massachusetts, offers innovative instruction and support for writers.