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

A revised and updated guide to the essentials of a writer’s craft, presented by a brilliant practitioner of the art
Completely revised and rewritten to address the challenges and opportunities of the modern era, this handbook is a short, deceptively simple guide to the craft of writing. 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. Each chapter combines illustrative examples from the global canon with Le Guin’s own witty commentary and an exercise that the writer can do solo or in a group. She also offers a comprehensive guide to working in writing groups, both actual and online.
 
Masterly and concise, Steering the Craft deserves a place on every writer's shelf.

• Ursula K. Le Guin: Conversations on Writing
• The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination
• Words Are My Matter: Writings About Life and Books, 2000-2016, with a Journal of a Writer’s Week
• No Time to Spare: Thinking About What Matters
• So Far So Good
• Zen in the Art of Writing: Essays on Creativity
• Steering the Craft: Exercises and Discussions on Story Writing for the Lone Navigator or the Mutinous Crew
• No Time to Spare: Thinking About What Matters
• Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them (P.S.)
• Story Genius: How to Use Brain Science to Go Beyond Outlining and Write a Riveting Novel (Before You Waste Three Years Writing 327 Pages That Go Nowhere)