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Bibliographic Information
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Steering the craft : a twenty-first century guide to sailing the sea of story
First Mariner Books edition.
- Author
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Le Guin, Ursula K., 1929-2018.
- Publisher:
- Mariner Books,
- Pub date:
- 2015.
- Description:
- xvii, 141 pages ;
- ISBN:
- 0544611616
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Steering the craft : a twenty-first century guide to sailing the sea of story
First Mariner Books edition.
Le Guin, Ursula K., 1929-2018.
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Personal Author:
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Le Guin, Ursula K., 1929-2018.
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Title:
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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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Edition:
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First Mariner Books edition.
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Publication Info:
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Boston : Mariner Books, 2015.
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©1998
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Physical descrip:
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xvii, 141 pages ; 21 cm
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General Note:
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"Modernized, new edition"--back cover.
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Contents:
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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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Summary:
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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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Held by:
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GAYTON
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Subject term:
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Authorship--Problems, exercises, etc.
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Subject term:
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Creative writing--Problems, exercises, etc.
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Subject term:
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Narration (Rhetoric)--Problems, exercises, etc.