Displaying 1 of 1 2015 Format: Book Author: Le Guin, Ursula K., 1929-2018. Title: Steering the craft : a twenty-first century guide to sailing the sea of story / Ursula K. Le Guin. Edition: First Mariner Books edition. Publisher, Date: Boston : Mariner Books, 2015. ©1998 Description: xvii, 141 pages ; 21 cm Summary: 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. Subjects: Authorship -- Problems, exercises, etc. Creative writing -- Problems, exercises, etc. Narration (Rhetoric) -- Problems, exercises, etc. Notes: "Modernized, new edition"--back cover. 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. ISBN: 9780544611610 0544611616 Other Number: 902766840 System Availability: 3 Current Holds: 0 # Local items: 3 Control Number: 538334 # Local items in: 1 # System items in: 1 Call Number: 808.02 Le Guin Place Hold Add to My List Expand All | Collapse All Availability Map It Suggestions and more Displaying 1 of 1
