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Steering the Craft: A Twenty-First-Century Guide to Sailing the Sea of Story
Reader Score
84%
84% of readers
recommend this book
Completely revised and rewritten to address modern challenges and opportunities, 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 sentence construction to point of view. Each chapter combines illustrative examples from the global canon with Le Guin's own witty commentary and an exercise that the writer can do solo or in a group. She also offers a comprehensive guide to working in writing groups, both actual and online.
Masterly and concise, Steering the Craft deserves a place on every writer's shelf.
Book Details
- Publisher: Harper Perennial
- Publish Date: Sep 1st, 2015
- Pages: 160
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 8.20in - 5.50in - 0.50in - 0.30lb
- EAN: 9780544611610
- Categories: • Writing - Fiction Writing• Writing - Nonfiction (Incl. Memoirs)• Grammar & Punctuation
About the Author
Ursula K. Le Guin (1929-2018) was a celebrated author whose body of work includes twenty-three novels, twelve volumes of short stories, eleven volumes of poetry, thirteen children's books, five essay collections, and four works of translation. The breadth and imagination of her work earned her six Nebula Awards, seven Hugo Awards, and SFWA's Grand Master, along with a PEN/Malamud Award and many others. In 2014, she was awarded the National Book Foundation's Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, and in 2016, she joined the short list of authors to be published in their lifetimes by the Library of America.
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What people are saying
Neil Gaiman is a fantasy novelist and comic book writer.
In this, as in so many things, I find myself guided by the genius of @ursulaleguin. This is from her book of essays on writing, "Steering the Craft" https://t.co/kUeGFmzrbv
Welcome to Ursula K. Le Guin's official Twitter account, which mirrors @ursulaleguin. Managed by her estate.
Here's the front cover (and spine) of a new Taiwanese edition of Steering the Craft, published by Ecus. https://t.co/EWKxg9K36A
Disabled transmasc butch fantasy writer in this world, stabby bastards of various stripes in sundry fictional ones. @house_of_five@wandering.shop (he/they)
#WOWChat A5: So inspiration-wise I'm actually going to have to go with a craft book - Steering the Craft: Exercises and Discussions on Story Writing for the Lone Navigator or the Mutinous Crew, by Ursula K. Le Guin https://t.co/vKCaL5ejww
Praise for this book
"A must-read for intermediate and advanced writers of fiction and memoir." --Library Journal, STARRED "A succinct, clear, and encouraging companion for aspiring writers." --Kirkus Reviews "It would be churlish to deny the benefits of this thoughtful, concise volume...In essence, Le Guin reveals the art of craft and the craft of art...this book is a star by which to set one's course." --Publishers Weekly, STARRED "There is no better spirit in all of American letters than that of Ursula Le Guin." -- Slate "Le Guin is a writer of enormous intelligence and wit, a master storyteller with the humor and force of a Twain. She creates stories for everyone from New Yorker literati to the hardest audience, children. She remakes every genre she uses." -- Boston Globe --