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Steering the Craft: Exercises and Discussions on Story Writing for the Lone Navigator or the Mutinous Crew | |||||||
 
| 80% Recommended by our customers. Publisher: The Eighth Mountain Press Catalog: Book Release date: 1998-04-01 Media: Paperback Number of pages: 180 Ean: 9780933377462 Book Isbn: 0933377460  Tip: compare prices with similar booksAuthor:
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Ursula K. Le Guin's extraordinary writing primer is full of charm, wit, and opinion. Le Guin likens writing to "steering a craft," and as one reads through this volume, one has the sense of floating down a river, with the waves of Le Guin's words lapping at one's craft. Le Guin veers sharply from the mainstream of contemporary writing manuals by challenging their very definition of story. While it is common to "conflate story with conflict," Le Guin writes, she finds that limiting. "Story is change," she says. While that change may be the result of conflict, it is just as likely to evolve from "relating, finding, losing, bearing, discovering, [or] parting." Le Guin demonstrates this complexity with well-hewn excerpts from the works of such writers as Jane Austen, Mark Twain, J.R.R. Tolkien, Charlotte Brontë, and especially Virginia Woolf. The many aspects of fine fiction writing Le Guin addresses here include the role of the narrative sentence (its "chief duty [is] to lead to the next sentence--to keep the story going"); avoiding exposition doldrums ("break up the information, grind it fine, and make it into bricks to build the story with"); and the concept of "crowding and leaping." While prose should be "crowded with sensations, meanings, and implications," don't forget that "what you leave out is infinitely more than what you leave in." Accompanying Le Guin's text is a handful of clever writing exercises, each as enticing as its name. Among them are "I am García Márquez," which requires writing with no punctuation; "Chastity," which challenges one to write without adjectives or adverbs; and "A Terrible Thing to Do," which proposes taking an earlier exercise and cutting it--by half. --Jane Steinberg |
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Written on October 15, 2000 Summary: Steering The Craft is no paddle in the park! One of the great writers of the 20th century offers an exhilerating workout for writers of narrative fiction & nonfiction. It is a handbook full of warm up exercises such as "I Am Gorgeous" for reading aloud; writing a chaste paragraph of descriptive narrative prose without one adjective or adverb & "Changing Voices" - writing the same story from different perspectives. What I like about Steering The Craft is that I'm seriously studying along with this fabled author & suddenly there I am, brow frowning, mind minding every precious word & she stops me on a dime with a pun of the first water! A quietly important, useful & informative textbook for writers wishing to flex the muscles of their minds. You know a writer? This would be a superb gift! For my full review do check out: [my website]  Written on March 12, 2000 Summary: Not simplistic like some writing advice books Steering the Craft is useful for anyone engaged in creative writing, whether the outcome is fiction or narrative nonfiction. Her exercises are meant to be consciousness-raisers, says LeGuin, whom I interviewed for my own bestselling WRITING IN FLOW, and whom I found to be quite forthcoming about her writing process. In this book, for instance, she covers how to show characters thinking, shifting points of view, the uses of repetition, and so on. Although I normally don't care for exercises as such, hers are fresh and flexible (write a page of descriptive narrative without adjectives or adverbs or dialogue; you can do this as part of whatever you're working on). An original contribution to the advice field. Written on August 1, 1999 Summary: Practical exercises for writers. Written in an friendly, reassuring tone, Steering the Craft contains ten useful writing exercises, along with examples and commentary. Written on February 27, 1999 Summary: Good but... not enough material for the price. For a writer as wordy as she can be (e.g., the long long trek thru the cold in Left Hand), it is puzzling. Also, where's the attempt to teach the difference between short story and book-length fiction writing? An attempt to help explain the market? Inside stories? Written on January 16, 1999 Summary: A concise and helpful guide to get you writing. Steering the Craft combines the basics that you left in high school English, along with the exercises to get you to take a risk and write. Some exercises lead you into using a different voice, perspective or tense. Other exercises release your inhibitions, and kick you into quick improvisation. You will get something from this book! |
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| Catalog | Book | Book | Book | Book | Book | Book |
| Release date | 1998-04-01 | 2004-02-17 | 1995-09-01 | 1991-06-04 | 1998-10-20 | 2002-07-01 |
| Media | Paperback | Paperback | Paperback | Paperback | Paperback | Mass Market Paperback |
| Number of pages | 180 | 336 | 239 | 240 | 125 | 320 |
| Ean | 9780933377462 | 9781590300060 | 9780385480017 | 9780679734031 | 9781570623950 | 9780743455961 |
| Book Isbn | 0933377460 | 1590300068 | 0385480016 | 0679734031 | 1570623953 | 0743455967 |
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