Skip to content. Steering the Craft. Author : Ursula K. Ursula K. Le Guin generously shares the accumulated wisdom of a lifetime's work. Author : United States. Administrative law. Military art and science. Military Review. Merchant mariners.
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Get A Copy. Paperback , pages. More Details Original Title. About Writing. Other Editions Friend Reviews. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about Steering the Craft , please sign up. How different is this to the version? Which one should I buy? And why? Dee Le Guin says in her introduction to the updated version: "All the material has been rethought, made clearer, more accurate, and more useful to writers …more Le Guin says in her introduction to the updated version: "All the material has been rethought, made clearer, more accurate, and more useful to writers of the twenty-first century.
The exercises profited from a great deal of feedback from users of the book Peer group workshops are now so important to so many writers that I enlarged my discussion of them See 1 question about Steering the Craft…. Lists with This Book. Community Reviews. Showing Average rating 4. Rating details. More filters. Sort order. Mar 04, Eveningstar2 rated it really liked it. I'm pretty skeptical of books on writing, if only because everyone seems to have written one.
Strunk and White - Elements of Style 2. Stephen King - On Writing 3. Strunk and White covered the bare bones fundamentals; King's book covers the creative process and Gardner gets I'm pretty skeptical of books on writing, if only because everyone seems to have written one. Strunk and White covered the bare bones fundamentals; King's book covers the creative process and Gardner gets into some of the more academic, abstract concepts like rhythm, sentence variation and syntax.
LeGuin's book falls somewhere between King and Gardner. She has insight for the budding writer, but makes it clear that her book neither intends to promote writing as a form of therapy or help you get into a habit of productivity. Her advice is concise, terse and poignant, and she focuses entirely on craft. There's some fantastic advice here, including nuanced and thought-provoking arguments about passive vs. Her insights on crowding vs.
LeGuin covers everything King and Gardner either didn't cover or just touched upon. Her book feels like a valuable corollary, a good addition to a well-rounded reference. A short book, but precise in its advice, with a rare emphasis on those elements of creative writing that no one seems to talk about voice, perspective, sentence structure, avoiding expository lumps, good use of punctuation. Don't read this book for advice on plot, dialogue, characterization or pacing.
This is a book of techniques. View all 4 comments. Sep 23, Spencer Orey rated it really liked it Shelves: writing-books-and-other-tools.
This is a deceptively simple writing book. On first read, I thought it was too simple for where I was at as a writer. I wanted direct instructions about how to get the opening of a novel right and how to attract agents and publishers.
I still have a lot to learn as a writer, but I'm glad I've grown into seeing how helpful this book is. On my re-read three years later, I found this book grounded, useful, and sometimes magical.
There are answers here to very specific questions about writing and lan This is a deceptively simple writing book. There are answers here to very specific questions about writing and language, and the book is full of professional opinions but free from the overbearing, punishing ego voice of most other writing books.
Instead, it's full of writing advice and solid information about the fundamentals of language and how to make words sing.
View 2 comments. May 31, Suzanne rated it it was amazing Shelves: writing-resources , nonfiction , read-in This was one of the first books I bought for myself when I decided to pursue fiction writing. It's also the only book from those early days that survived the recent culling of my writing book collection, because the exercises are well-suited to aspiring and seasoned writers alike.
The rest of those first books I picked up were very self-helpy. I liked some of them back then, but freewriting about your past only gets you so far, you know? Le Guin's focus with these exercises is wordsmithing. I'v This was one of the first books I bought for myself when I decided to pursue fiction writing.
I've read so many books lately on plot, character, and Big Picture elements that it was refreshing to consider working with my writing at this level again. If those others are about planning a work of art, making decisions about layout and color, this book is about mixing the paints and choosing the brushes.
Since there's only a very brief description from Goodreads, here's a peek at what she covers: Chapter 1. Adjective and Adverb Exercise five: Chastity Chapter 6.
Not only did I love the writing it helped me produce, but the exercises sharpened my sense of how language can affect a reader. I found that very inspiring as an aspiring writer. These days, I also appreciate the emphasis on quality of language, word economy, and crafting a sentence you're damn proud of. As much as I like NaNoWriMo and understand that dwelling on each sentence is a realllllllly slow-going way to get a book written, I love that this book encourages you to slow down.
Listen to the words you're choosing. Are they they best words? Do you need all of them? Is there a better way? Try another way to be sure. All of this experimentation with language can get you even closer to conveying your vision to the reader. That's the goal, right? Anyway, I'm getting ready to work through all these again with a friend. I'm hoping the actual process of working through these exercises is as enjoyable as I remember. I'll amend the review either way.
View all 3 comments. Aug 09, Sarah rated it it was amazing Shelves: writing. Why don't I have a review here? A review: I did every exercise in this book. I am a better writer for it. The end. View all 5 comments. Words such as subject, predicate, object, or adjective and adverb, or past tense and past perfect tense, are half-understood or wholly unfamiliar to many. Updating the book also meant bringing it more fully into the age of electronic communication.
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