Steering the craft : a twenty-first century guide to sailing the sea of story
By: Le Guin, Ursula K.
Material type: BookPublisher: Boston : New York : Mariner Books , 2015Edition: First Mariner Books edition.Description: xvii, 141 pages ; 21 cm.ISBN: 9780544611610 (paperback); 0544611616 (paperback).Subject(s): Authorship -- Problems, exercises, etc | Creative writing | Narration (Rhetoric)DDC classification: 808.02 Online resources: Contributor biographical information | Publisher description | Sample text Summary: "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 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."--Publisher's website.Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due |
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Non Fiction | BardBerlinLibrary Circulation Office | 808.02 GUI 2015 (Browse shelf) | Available |
"Modernized, new edition"--back cover.
"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 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."--Publisher's website.
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