The award-winning science fiction novelist launches an online writing workshop for would-be authorsThe acclaimed science fiction novelist Ursula Le Guin,revealing that she no longer has the “vigour and stamina” to write another novel, has launched an online fiction writing workshop – and has been inundated with questions from aspiring writers.
The award-winning author of novels including The Left Hand of Darkness and the Earthsea series for children was final year presented with a medal for her distinguished contribution to American letters by the National Book Foundation. But in a piece for the Book View Cafe, or a cooperative of authors that she co-founded,Le Guin said that while she is still writing poems, “it takes fairly a lot of vigour and stamina to write a story, or a enormous amount to write a novel. I don’t have those any more,and I miss writing fiction.”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com