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Le Guin’s wisdom: Master your craft, write well, and thrive.
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Steering the Craft

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

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    173 pages

  • Release Date

    31 October 2024

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Summary

Revised and updated for the twenty-first century, Steering the Craft is Ursula K. Le Guin’s carrier bag of the essentials of a writer’s craft, a generous gift from one of the great thinkers about how – and why – to write.

This handbook is an accessible and profound guide to the craft of writing and editing. 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. Drawing on t…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781739371722
ISBN-10:1739371720
Author:Ursula K. Le Guin, Kelly Link, Karen Joy Fowler, Molly Gloss
Publisher:Silver Press
Imprint:Silver Press
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:173
Release Date:31 October 2024
Weight:186g
About The Author

Ursula K. Le Guin

Ursula K. Le Guin (1929-2018) was a celebrated author of twenty-one novels, eleven volumes of short stories, four collections of essays, twelve children’s books, six volumes of poetry and four of translation. The breadth and imagination of her work earned her six Nebulas, nine Hugos and SFWA’s Grand Master, along with the PEN/ Malamud and many other awards. In 2014 she was awarded the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, and in 2016 joined the short list of authors to be published in their lifetimes by the Library of America.

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