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Writers & Writing as Lifelines.
Dec. 20th, 2021 01:11 pm"Your story may be the lifeline that your readers desperately need to pull them to shore." ---Martha Wells
Our own Martha Wells won not one, but two Hugos last night at WorldCon 2021. For best novel (NETWORK EFFECT) and for best series (THE MURDERBOT DIARIES.)
Here's the link for her acceptance speech--she figured that even with crazy luck she would only need one speech, right?
The tl;dr is the sentence at the top of the entry. I think that is why she won. Not simply because she is a great storyteller--she's been that for years. But because MurderBot was and is a lifeline for a lot of us.
Our own Martha Wells won not one, but two Hugos last night at WorldCon 2021. For best novel (NETWORK EFFECT) and for best series (THE MURDERBOT DIARIES.)
Here's the link for her acceptance speech--she figured that even with crazy luck she would only need one speech, right?
The tl;dr is the sentence at the top of the entry. I think that is why she won. Not simply because she is a great storyteller--she's been that for years. But because MurderBot was and is a lifeline for a lot of us.
