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Steering the craft : a twenty-first century guide to sailing the sea of story
/ Ursula K. Le Guin
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Mariner Books
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2015.
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First Mariner Books edition.
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First Mariner Books edition.
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| Descript. |
xvii, 141 pages ; 21 cm.
text txt rdacontent.
unmediated n rdamedia.
volume nc rdacarrier.
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| Note |
"Modernized, new edition"--back cover.
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| Summary |
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.
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| Contents |
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.
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| ISBN/ISSN |
9780544611610 (pbk)
0544611616 (pbk.)
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