Take a Trip Through Ursula K. Le Guin’s Conjured Worlds
The fantasy and science fiction writer found her way into her invented worlds by making maps and then mentally exploring them.
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On Creativity
How does any great creative work by a novelist or poet come into being? This question never fails to fascinate. Henry James preceded his great 1916 novel The Ambassadors by writing the most intricate of plot lines, a work almost as dense as the finished novel itself.
It was quite different for the poet W.B.
Author's summary: Explore Ursula K. Le Guin's creative process.