Steering the Craft

Steering the Craft: Exercises and Discussions on Story Writing for the Lone Navigator or the Mutinous Crew is a 1998 work by Ursula K. Le Guin on writing.

Editions

• 1998, Eight Mountain

Contents

Chapter 1

• "The Sound of Your Writing"
• Exercise One: Being Gorgeous

Chapter 2

• "Punctuation"
• Exercise Two: I Am García Márquez

Chapter 3

• "Sentence Length and Complex Syntax"
• Exercise Three: Short and Long

Chapter 4

• "Repetition"
• Exercise Four: Again and Again and Again

Chapter 5

• "Adjective and Adverb"
• Exercise Five: Chastity

Chapter 6

• "Subject Pronoun and Verb"
• Exercise Six: The Old Woman

Chapter 7

• "Point of View and Voice"
• Exercise Seven: POV

Chapter 8

• "Changing Point of View"
• Exercise Eight: Changing Voices

Chapter 9

• "Indirect Narration, or What Tells"
• Exercise Nine: Telling It Slant

Chapter 10

• "Crowding and Leaping"
• Exercise Ten: A Terrible Thing to Do