Steering the Craft : : a Twenty-First Century Guide to Sailing the sea of Story
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"Modernized, new edition"--back cover.
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.
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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PUBLISHED
Boston : Mariner Books, 2015.
Year Published: 2015
Description: xvii, 141 pages ; 21 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
0544611616
9780544611610
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Authorship -- Problems, exercises, etc.
Creative writing -- Problems, exercises, etc.
Narration (Rhetoric) -- Problems, exercises, etc.