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

Synopsis

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.