Cautious Hope

@goodwraith.bsky.social

This is the lodestar for understanding Graham Platner: it’s not about him. It never was. It’s also not about you. Your honor, your disgust.

It is about the people who will be helped or hurt. Focus on them.

Anna Kornbluh

@annakornbluh.bsky.social

writing is reading a good word in something else and catapulting it in to your draft catawampus lodestar kismet

aoanla

@aoanla.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy

Lodestar (not-a-Hugo for YA) finalists

They Bloom at Night by Trang Thanh Tran

This is a weird one, and I mean stylistically - it's incredibly overwritten, with some very intrusive phrasings that don't sound like people speak or narrate; plus, many of the characters infodump in a "verbatim […]