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Steering the Craft
by Ursula K. Le Guin
Le Guin's exercises on the sound of language, sentence length, point of view, and crowding and leaping. Short, precise and brilliant.
Read it if…
you want exercises from a master stylist.
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Skip it if…
you want plot.
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Three things you will actually use
- Hear the prose.
- Vary the sentence.
- Crowd and leap.
Do this first
Do the exercise on sentence length.
Our verdict
Le Guin's exercises.
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