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Steering the craft : a twenty-first-century guide to sailing the sea of story /

Le Guin, Ursula K., 1929-2018

Steering the craft : a twenty-first-century guide to sailing the sea of story / Ursula K. Le Guin. - First Mariner Books edition ; modernized, new edition. - xvii, 141 pages ; 21 cm

Previous edition: 1998.

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.

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.

0544611616 9780544611610


Authorship--Problems, exercises, etc.
Creative writing--Problems, exercises, etc.
Narration (Rhetoric)--Problems, exercises, etc.

PN212 / .L44 2015

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