TY - BOOK AU - Le Guin,Ursula K. TI - Steering the craft: a twenty-first century guide to sailing the sea of story SN - 0544611616 PY - 2015/// CY - Boston PB - Mariner Books KW - Authorship KW - Problems, exercises, etc KW - Creative writing KW - Narration (Rhetoric) N1 - "Modernized, new edition"--back cover; The sound of your writing -- Punctuation and grammar -- Sentence length and complex syntax -- Repetition -- Adjectives and adverbs -- Verbs: person and tense -- Point of view and voice -- Changing point of view -- Indirect narration, or what tells -- Crowding and leaping -- Appendix: the peer group workshop -- Exercises: Being gorgeous ; Am I Saramago ; Short and long ; Again and again and again ; Chastity ; The old woman ; Points of view ; Changing voices ; Telling it slant ; A terrible thing to do N2 - Presents advice on the basic elements of narrative prose, covering point of view, sentence length and complex syntax, indirect narration, grammar, punctuation, and the sound of writing ER -