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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.
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Steering the Craft: A Twenty-First-Century Guide to Sailing the Sea of Story
2015, Mariner Books
in English
- First Mariner Books
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Steering the Craft: A Twenty-First-Century Guide to Sailing the Sea of Story
2015, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
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Steering the Craft: Exercises and Discussions on Story Writing for the Lone Navigator or the Mutinous Crew
1998, Eighth Mountain Press
0933377460 9780933377462
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Steering the craft: exercises and discussions on story writing for the lone navigator or the mutinous crew
1998, Eighth Mountain Press
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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
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Book Details
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.
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