Steering the Craft
A Twenty-first Century Guide to Sailing the Sea of Story
Boston : Mariner Books, 2015.
Format: Book
Edition: First Mariner Books edition.
Description: xvii, 141 pages ; 21 cm
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.
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.
Subjects:
Authorship -- Problems, exercises, etc.
Creative writing -- Problems, exercises, etc.
Narration (Rhetoric) -- Problems, exercises, etc.
Authorship -- Problems, exercises, etc.
Creative writing -- Problems, exercises, etc.
Narration (Rhetoric) -- Problems, exercises, etc.
ISBN:
9780544611610
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
LITERATURE Writing Le G | Main (Downtown) | Third Level, Nonfiction | In |
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"Modernized, new edition"--back cover.