Yeah that whole "artist's hunch" is no joke. Read an article last week about how illustrators and drafters have some of the worst rates of chronic neck and upper back pain, worse than many office jobs. The compulsion to get closer to the page just wrecks your alignment over time. My own physio told me to treat my drawing table like a standing desk and alternate every twenty minutes, which feels impossible when you're in the zone.

Great climate fiction wraps big ideas in character-driven stories, so it doesn't feel like a seminar. It's less about reinforcing anxiety and more about seeing our place in the world differently.