Anton Eine on Writing Nonfiction with a Mission

<p><span style='font-weight: 400;'>Episode 147 / Anton Eine, a science fiction and nonfiction author who lives in Ukraine, joins us this week and shares his experience of being a writer living in Kiev and Lviv during the war and how he translated those experiences into a documentarian war diary,</span> <em><span style='font-weight: 400;'>The Thin Blue-Yellow Line Between Love and Hate</span></em><span style='font-weight: 400;'>.</span></p> <p><span style='font-weight: 400;'>Show notes:</span></p> <ul> <li style='font-weight: 400;' aria-level='1'><span style='font-weight: 400;'>Why Anton decided to take a break from fiction and write a war diary documenting his life and the stories of his fellow Ukranians in the months after Russia invaded Ukraine</span></li> <li style='font-weight: 400;' aria-level='1'><span style='font-weight: 400;'>How the creative project gave him a type of creative freedom he hadn’t experienced when writing fiction</span></li> <li style='font-weight: 400;' aria-level='1'><span style='font-weight: 400;'>How writing about painful experiences can be a cathartic experience</span></li> <li style='font-weight: 400;' aria-level='1'><span style='font-weight: 400;'>How Anton gets his books translated and how works with Ukrainian creatives through his writing and publishing process</span></li> <li style='font-weight: 400;' aria-level='1'><span style='font-weight: 400;'>How he focused on a creative project in the middle of the uncertainty of war and how he used that uncertainty as motivation</span></li> <li style='font-weight: 400;' aria-level='1'><span style='font-weight: 400;'>How fragile peace is and how we should value it</span></li> </ul> <p><span style='font-weight: 400;'>Come over and say hi to Jami and Sara in the</span> <a href='https://www.facebook.com/groups/304647074240099/'><span style='font-weight: 400;'>WIKT Facebook group</span></a><span style='font-weight: 400;'>! You can find show notes and links at</span> <a href='https://wishidknownforwriters.com/'><span style='font-weight: 400;'>wis