Steering The Craft
Ursala K. Le Guin
With an introduction by Theo Downes-Le Guin, Karen Joy Fowler, Molly Gloss and Kelly Link
A Twenty-First-Century Guide to Sailing the Sea of Story
'Steering the Craft' is Ursula K. Le Guin’s carrier bag of the tools of a writer’s craft: how – and why – to write. From the sound of language to tenses to point of view, Le Guin offers a comprehensive and generous guide to the fundamental components of narrative, illustrating her incisive analysis with examples from some of her favourite writers. Revised and updated for the twenty-first century, this handbook includes exercises that the writer can do alone or in a group.
'An anarchic destabilizer of established power structures and a ferocious critic of racist and sexist narratives.' — Maria Dahvana Headle
'great teacher. great spirit. — adrienne maree brown