7 Ways to Make a Small Story Feel Substantial
I recently finished reading Wild Dark Shore, a literary climate thriller by Charlotte McConaghy. Its cast is small and geographically constricted: Widower Dominic Salt and his three children are performing one last task before shutting down the final scientific operations on soon-to-be uninhabitable Shearwater, a small island not far from Antarctica, when a woman washes up on the beach during a violent storm. Miraculously, she clings to life, and saving her will affect each of them in profound ways. Despite reading another wonderful novel in the meantime, I can’t stop thinking about this story.
https://writerunboxed.com/2026/06/11/7-ways-to-make-a-small-story-feel-substantial/
#BookTalk #CRAFT #Inspirations #AndyWeir #CharlotteMcConaghy

Hola a todos y a todas. En esta ocasión, no dedico el podcast a la recomendación de un libro en exclusiva, sino que me dedico a "charlar" con vosotros y vosotras sobre algunas adaptaciones de libro a serie o película que he disfrutado (o no disfrutado) recientemente. Me voy a centrar en El Caballero de
Hace poco me he enterado de un dato intrascendente pero divertido, los planetas Urras y Anarres de "Los desposeidos" de Ursula K. LegIn, están situados en el sistema estelar de la estrella Épsilon Eridani, el mismo al que viaja la nave "Hail Mary" de la novela de #AndyWeir.
https://biblioreads.eu.org/book/show/54493401-project-hail-mary
“I’m smart enough to know that I’m stupid. That’s progress.“ - Dr. Grace 👍👍 #books #scifi #scifibooks #andyweir
tratto sempre dai libri di #AndyWeir che, personalmente, ritengo autore incredibilmente sovravvalutato avendo sistematicamente scambiato il viaggio dell'eroe con i suoi profondi archetipi, con la trama di una puntata di MacGyver.
Iniziamo dal presupposto di base: questo film non è fantascienza, né hard né soft. E' una noiosa fiaba morale con delle astronavi.
Il protagonista, #RyanGosling nei panni di un astronauta che non ricorda nulla (perché l'amnesia è sempre la soluzione narrativa
2/10
Watched #themartian again last night with the kiddos. Our recent #projecthailmary viewing got us inspired to watch more space adventures. The movie still holds up, and is arguably better than PHM overall in terms of story and characters.
That said, is the constant complaining about the disco music got kind of annoying after a while...
I watched the movie Project Hail Mary today. It was good, it's just another one of those instances where the novel tops the movie.

Project Hail Mary is one of those few movies, which I read in the book form before watching. The book by Andy Weir in an absolute banger of a read. The plotting is awesome. The detail the book goes into is insane. Basically Andy Weir is one of the best contemporary writers living today. And Hollywood wanting to adopt Weir is and always will be bound to happen.