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๐—ฅ๐—ฒ๐˜ƒ๐—ถ๐—ฒ๐˜„: "๐—ฆ๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐—–๐—ฟ๐—ฎ๐—ณ๐˜" ๐—ฏ๐˜† ๐—จ๐—ฟ๐˜€๐˜‚๐—น๐—ฎ ๐—ž. ๐—Ÿ๐—ฒ ๐—š๐˜‚๐—ถ๐—ป -

Le Guin's style tips and exercises are terrific warm-ups for emerging writers and delivered with a comfortable and fresh voice; for more experienced writers, there is little here not found in other style books.

https://youtu.be/pPbguCgQd6w

๐‘ณ๐’Š๐’•๐’†๐’“๐’‚๐’“๐’š ๐‘ต๐’๐’Ž๐’‚๐’…๐’”: ๐‘ณ๐’† ๐‘ฎ๐’–๐’Š๐’ ๐‘ท๐’‚๐’“๐’• 1: ๐‘ป๐’‰๐’† ๐‘ฏ๐’Š๐’…๐’†๐’๐’–๐’” ๐‘ฉ๐’‚๐’“๐’ˆ๐’‚๐’Š๐’ -

At last we settle in to think about Le Guinโ€™s "Omelas" story and set aside some common approaches to it. The first of several parts.

https://waywordsstudio.com/podcasts/waywords_podcast/le-guin-1-the-hideous-bargain/

๐‘ณ๐’Š๐’•๐’†๐’“๐’‚๐’“๐’š ๐‘ต๐’๐’Ž๐’‚๐’…๐’”: ๐‘ฎ๐’‚๐’“๐’…๐’†๐’๐’” ๐’๐’‡ ๐‘ฐ๐’Ž๐’‚๐’ˆ๐’Š๐’๐’‚๐’•๐’Š๐’๐’: ๐‘ต๐’‚๐’“๐’“๐’‚๐’•๐’Š๐’—๐’† ๐‘ผ๐’•๐’๐’‘๐’Š๐’‚๐’” -

Let's niche down to examine the history and function of utopia fiction. including our need for it.

https://waywordsstudio.com/podcasts/waywords_podcast/gardens-of-imagination/

๐‘ณ๐’Š๐’•๐’†๐’“๐’‚๐’“๐’š ๐‘ต๐’๐’Ž๐’‚๐’…๐’” ๐‘น๐’†๐’‚๐’…๐’Š๐’๐’ˆ: "๐‘น๐’†๐’ƒ๐’†๐’๐’๐’Š๐’๐’" ๐’‡๐’“๐’๐’Ž ๐‘ซ๐’๐’”๐’•๐’๐’†๐’—๐’”๐’Œ๐’š'๐’” '๐‘ป๐’‰๐’† ๐‘ฉ๐’“๐’๐’•๐’‰๐’†๐’“๐’” ๐‘ฒ๐’‚๐’“๐’‚๐’Ž๐’‚๐’›๐’๐’—' -

Still another famous writer has posed the Le Guin question, and he did it in one of Russia's most famous novels, ๐˜›๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ ๐˜‰๐˜ณ๐˜ฐ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ๐˜ด ๐˜’๐˜ข๐˜ณ๐˜ข๐˜ฎ๐˜ข๐˜ป๐˜ฐ๐˜ท. Here it is.

https://waywordsstudio.com/podcasts/waywords_podcast/reading-rebellion-from-dostoevskys-the-brothers-karamazov/


Ursula K Le Guin is an author you can not skip. Her work is too important, too human. I'm not always ready to read her, but when I do it's somewhat disruptive, changing my perspective on things.

I find this fascinating: both Ursula K Le Guin and Octavia E Butler touch the subject of language in their sci-fi novels, and how different types of language (telepathy or sensory languages, for instance) would not allow their characters to lie, as opposed to our human language, that allows us to lie easily and often.

Idk, that's my two cents with less than 4 hours sleep ๐Ÿ˜‹

Ursula K. Le Guin's 'Steering The Craft' is both a creative writing manual, and a manifesto for the importance of good writing. It's as beautifully written as her fiction.

https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/bb4c17b1-bdd9-47b4-9715-398dfbd35a67

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A white male hand holding a copy of Ursula K. Le Guinโ€™s โ€˜Steering the Craftโ€™ in front of a fence and a shed

Finished reading Le Guinโ€™s โ€œThe Tellingโ€ last night. Beautifully and compellingly written, as always.

Probably due to current events, I couldnโ€™t help but read it as a hopeful tale of community resistance against techno-religious fascism, and the importance of shared stories and symbols in that fight.