Ursula K. Le Guin's piece titled "Where Do You Get You Ideas From" is often regarded by most as an important piece of literature to help the modern writer. Her in-depth and analytical look at the "truth" behind being a writer was an excellent concept to examine. And plays a key role in providing further insight into what it takes to spark creativity. She uses a myriad of unique writing skills that generate a strong response in the reader. The other concept that she examines is the source of her stories. Guin's straight-forward, honest approach to writing her positions and thoughts on certain aspects of writing is not only helpful but inspiring and genuine. In this piece various information from female writers writing in a male perspective to typical patterns found in writing and how most writers/artists are egoists definitely offers a reader a plethora of advice along the way. Focusing on the two concepts of "truth" and "origins," Le Guin explains the complexity behind the writing and the writer.

Fiction writing does not merely originate from a single, rationally accessible idea. Le Guin explains that fiction begins from a complex, mysterious, and non-rational creation process. It does not come from one point but many, interwoven, spread out in time. She elaborates further by stating the conception and formation of what becomes a story does not often involve ideas in the shape of intelligible thought patterns (it may not even consist of words) but rather a collection of scents, images, feelings, visions, dreams, etc.

Reflecting on her own ideas from her writing, she suggests that the deepest roots of stories begin from imagination and emotion: "in the...

It reveals that the writer is not in control of the story. The story has a life in itself. She states that stories tell themselves, and the writer is simply the "medium" with which it flows through.
People always seek to understand how writers write such wonderful masterpieces and Le Guin is quick to point out the way she gets it may not work out for the person asking. Writers don't have keep this amazing secret that once known will imbue a person with the talents of a writer. A writer is a writer because that is what they're good in and they known how to express in written form their inspiration. She also shares how one should work on what they are talented in, quickly pointing out her inability to sewing or make music. She had her talent from the beginning and through the course of her inspirations, was able to write the books she is so well-known for.

Being a writer is not just gathering ideas and writing them on paper. It is often an arduous look at what works, what feels rights, what looks right, what sounds right, and what fits. Le Guin states how failure is often a way to see things that success hides. As a beginner in writing, failures stem from writers inability to attach the right kind of image for a feeling and idea. Often people assume writers are simply able to generate from thin air these vivid imaginings and can easily translate that to paper. That is not the case. It takes a strong foundation of vocabulary and grammar, as well as knowledge on…