![]() ![]() This is not a humorous book, but I tend to laugh at things gives me relief. She slices through so much of the bad advice I see over and over again online with an effortless logic that had me laughing at the truth of her statements. She talks about grammar only to explain how not to be afraid of the semicolon or comas. ![]() She brings up all the rules we have heard over and over again such as: show don’t tell write in an active voice, not the passive voice don’t use “be” verbs and more - and then tells you how to break them. In Steering the Craft, Ursula Le Guin talks about all the things that make good prose such as the sound of the language, rhythm, descriptions, story verse plot. Then, when you finish with that, buy this book, Steering the Craft. Instead, read Write and Revise for Publication by Jack Smith to learn how to take an idea from an outline to a novel. Le Guin is a fantastic book, but don’t read it thinking it will teach you how to write a novel. ![]() Steering the Craft: A Twenty-First-Century Guide to Sailing the Sea of Story by Ursula K. ![]()
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