Steering the Craft: A Twenty-First-Century Guide to Sailing the Sea of Story [Paperback]

A revised and updated guide to the essentials of a writer’s craft, presented by a brilliant practitioner of the art

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.
 
Masterly and concise,Steering the Craftdeserves a place on every writer's shelf.

“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 fromNew Yorkerliterati to the hardest audience, children. She remakes every genre she uses.” —Boston Globe

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