I went to the Nebula Awards dinner tonight. I…really enjoyed myself.
The group I was with didn’t win any of the awards they were nominated for. Unfortunately. But, I still enjoyed the speakers and the speeches, and generally just the celebration of artists by their peers.
I think that SFWA at-large has really done the indie author community a disservice with the way they’ve treated them this year. I’m not going to go into what happened; that’s been debated ad nauseum. But…SFWA is an organization that I do believe in. I have faith that they will embrace the change, eventually.
Change is hard.
Writing is hard.
I’ve learned both of those things over the past couple years. But, I have two takeaways today from my various conversations with people higher up the mountain than I:
1) It doesn’t have to be as hard as I think, because…
2) It’s really about finding the joy in the work.
That’s what I’m thinking about tonight.
Congratulations to all of the writers who’s work was selected for recognition tonight, congrats to the winners, and especially congrats to my acquaintances and friends who were nominated and didn’t win. It’s hard to get so close to something and not get it. But, damn: your work deserved to be nominated because it deserved to be recognized. Well done.
Night.