Steering the Craft
Subtitle: A Twenty-First-Century Guide to Sailing the Sea of Story
By: Ursula K. Le Guin
Edition: First Mariner Books
Publisher: Mariner Books
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 141
ISBN-13: 9780544611610
Copyright date: 1998
Subjects: Authorship; Problems, exercises; Narration (Rhetoric); Creative writing
Description: 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.
Notes: Previous edition: 1998.

"Modernized, new edition"--Back cover.
Table of contents: title: The sound of your writing; title: Punctuation and grammar; title: Sentence length and complex syntax; title: Repetition; title: Adjectives and adverbs; title: Verbs: person and tense; title: Point of view and voice; title: Changing point of view; title: Indirect narration, or what tells; title: Crowding and leaping; title: Appendix: the peer group workshop; title: 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.