Research Catalog

Title

Steering the craft : exercises and discussions on story writing for the lone navigator or the mutinous crew / Ursula K. Le Guin.

Author

Le Guin, Ursula K., 1929-2018

Publication

Portland, Or. : Eighth Mountain Press, 1998.

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Details

Description

173 p.; 22 cm.

Summary

One of the great writers of the twentieth century offers an exhilarating workout for writers of narrative fiction or nonfiction. With her sharp mind and wit and a delightful sense of playfulness, Le Guin has turned a successful workshop into a self-guided voyage of discovery for a writer working alone, a writing group, or a class. Steering the Craft is concerned with the basic elements of narrative: how a story is told, what moves it and what clogs it. This book does not plod through plot, character, beginning-middle-and-end. Nor does it discuss writing as self-expression, as therapy, or as spiritual adventure. Each topic includes examples that clarify and exercises that intensify awareness of the techniques of storytelling.

Subject

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

Genre/Form

• Literature
• Problems and exercises

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The sound of your writing -- Punctuation -- Sentence length and complex syntax -- Repetition --Adjective and adverb --Subject pronoun and verb -- Point of view and voice -- Changing point of view -- Indirect narration, or what tells -- Crowding and leaping.

ISBN

• 0933377460 (trade paper : acid-free paper)
• 0933377479 (lib. bdg. : acid-free paper)

LCCN

^^^97032587^

OCLC

• 37878636
• SCSB-11984695

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library