Steering the craft

exercises and discussions on story writing for the lone navigator or the mutinous crew

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173 pages

English language

Published Jan. 21, 1998 by Eighth Mountain Press.

ISBN:
978-0-933377-46-2
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5 stars (1 review)

Presents advice on the basic elements of narrative prose, covering point of view, sentence length and complex syntax, indirect narration, grammar, punctuation, and the sound of writing.

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Not a simple guide to writing or a step-by-step how to write a book guide, but really powerful. Le Guin shares a lot of her insight and experience, which is useful in itself, but the exercises are the heart of this. They're really good to focus on different skills writers need, and now I want to assemble a group to work on them together!

Subjects

  • Authorship -- Problems, exercises, etc
  • Creative writing -- Problems, exercises, etc
  • Narration (Rhetoric) -- Problems, exercises, etc