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

Summary

A MODERNIZED, NEW EDITION OF AN ESSENTIAL GUIDE TO THE WRITING 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. The ten chapters shed light on 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 Ursula Le Guin’s own witty commentary and an exercise that the writer can do solo or in a group. Le Guin 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.

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