Steering the craft : a twenty-first century guide to sailing the sea of story / Ursula K. Le Guin.
"Completely revised and rewritten to address the challenges and opportunities of the modern era, this handbook is a short, deceptively simple guide to the craft of writing. Le Guin lays out ten chapters that address the most fundamental components of narrative, from the sound of language to sen...
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Language: | English |
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Boston ; New York :
Mariner Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt,
2015.
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Edition: | First Mariner books edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- The sound of your writing
- Punctuation and grammar
- Sentence length and complex syntax
- Repetition
- Adjectives and adverbs
- Verbs: person and tense
- Point of view and voice
- Changing point of view
- Indirect narration, or what tells
- Crowding and leaping
- Appendix: the peer group workshop
- Exercises: Being gorgeous ; Am I Saramago ; Short and long ; Again and again and again ; Chastity ; The old woman ; Points of view ; Changing voices ; Telling it slant ; A terrible thing to do.