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Steering the Craft: A Twenty First Century Guide to Sailing the Sea of Story

by Ursula K Le Guin
Steering the Craft: A Twenty First Century Guide to Sailing the Sea of Story

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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 Craft deserves a place on every writer's shelf.

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"A succinct, clear, and encouraging companion for aspiring writers." Kirkus Reviews

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"There is no better spirit in all of American letters than that of Ursula Le Guin." Slate

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“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

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Ursula K. Le Guin was born in Berkeley, California, in 1929. Over the course of her career she has published more than sixty books of fiction, fantasy, science fiction, children’s literature, poetry, drama, criticism, and translation, and is the multiple winner of the highest awards in several fields. Among her honors are a National Book Award, a PEN/Malamud Award for short fiction, five Hugo and five Nebula Awards, twenty-one Locus Awards, the Kafka Award, a Pushcart Prize, the Harold D. Vursell Memorial Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the National Book Foundation’s Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. She lives in Portland, Oregon, with her husband.

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With excerpts from authors as diverse as Rudyard Kipling &Patrick O’Neil, or Zora Neale Hurston & Jane Austen, with exercises that feed into and build on each other, and with a nicely nuanced approach to grammar and other tools of the trade, the author assists our writing, so our writing can assist other people’s reading, and so the whole will be something worth both reading and listening to.

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J Priddy , September 06, 2015 (view all comments by J Priddy)
If you want to become a smarter and more effective writer. This is a great place to start. I have probably bought a dozen copies of the old edition of Le Guin's Steering the Craft. Now I will likely buy dozens more of her new edition. Le Guin offers a series of exercises, interesting and quick writings that can actually be immediately put to use in any writing project. For several years I even used the book as a Writing 121 text though it was really best suited for writers of fiction and creative nonfiction. I can't wait to see what she may have added!

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mleadingham , August 12, 2015
Ursula K. LA Guin is the reason I love books so much. The first fantasy novel I read was The Wizard of Earthsea. I since read every book she has ever written. I'm genuinely excited for her upcoming book on writing.

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