Steering the Craft

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

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Steering the Craft

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

First Mariner Books
  • 4.00 ·
  • 7 Ratings
  • 20 Want to read
  • 0 Currently reading
  • 9 Have read

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.

Publish Date
Publisher
Mariner Books
Language
English
Pages
141

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Edition Availability
Cover of: Steering the Craft
Steering the Craft: A Twenty-First-Century Guide to Sailing the Sea of Story
2015, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
in English
Cover of: Steering the Craft
Steering the Craft: A Twenty-First-Century Guide to Sailing the Sea of Story
2015, Mariner Books
in English - First Mariner Books
Cover of: Steering the craft
Steering the craft: exercises and discussions on story writing for the lone navigator or the mutinous crew
1998, Eighth Mountain Press, The Eighth Mountain Press
in English - 1st ed.
Cover of: Steering the craft
Cover of: Steering the Craft
Cover of: Steering the Craft
Steering the Craft
April 1998, Tandem Library
in English

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Table of 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.

Edition Notes

Previous edition: 1998.

"Modernized, new edition"--Back cover.

Copyright Date
1998

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
808/.02
Library of Congress
PN212 .L44 2015, PN212.L438 2015

The Physical Object

Pagination
xvii, 141 pages
Number of pages
141

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL27189446M
ISBN 10
0544611616
ISBN 13
9780544611610
OCLC/WorldCat
902766840

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