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Steering the Craft: Exercises and Discussions on Story Writing for the Lone Navigator or the Mutinous Crew

Description

Ursula K. Le Guin's extraordinary writing primer is full of charm, wit, and opinion. Le Guin likens writing to "steering a craft," and as one reads through this volume, one has the sense of floating down a river, with the waves of Le Guin's words lapping at one's craft. Le Guin veers sharply from the mainstream of contemporary writing manuals by challenging their very definition of story. While it is common to "conflate story with conflict," Le Guin writes, she finds that limiting. "Story is change," she says. While that change may be the result of conflict, it is just as likely to evolve from "relating, finding, losing, bearing, discovering, [or] parting." Le Guin demonstrates this complexity with well-hewn excerpts from the works of such writers as Jane Austen, Mark Twain, J.R.R. Tolkien, Charlotte Brontë, and especially Virginia Woolf. The many aspects of fine fiction writing Le Guin addresses here include the role of the narrative sentence (its "chief duty [is] to lead to the next sentence--to keep the story going"); avoiding exposition doldrums ("break up the information, grind it fine, and make it into bricks to build the story with"); and the concept of "crowding and leaping." While prose should be "crowded with sensations, meanings, and implications," don't forget that "what you leave out is infinitely more than what you leave in."

Accompanying Le Guin's text is a handful of clever writing exercises, each as enticing as its name. Among them are "I am García Márquez," which requires writing with no punctuation; "Chastity," which challenges one to write without adjectives or adverbs; and "A Terrible Thing to Do," which proposes taking an earlier exercise and cutting it--by half. --Jane Steinberg

Reviews

Rating: 5 / 5
Date: 2010-07-01
Summary: "One of the best"

It is a concise, but rich experience in learning and practicing the craft of writing, and of all of my writing books, a favorite. Some of the specific things I love about it are

a) her genuine enthusiam for writing and for literature sparkles off the page. She takes writing very solemnly as an art but also as something fun and delightful and playful, and her love for it is infectous and inspiring.

b)the many examples, from a wide variety of sources. There is some Tolkien, some Virgina Woolf, some Gertrude Stein, some Kipling, some Twain. A great variety to show writers how things have been well done by previous writers.

c) she has a very open, creative mind, and hands you all the tools to write in many different ways, rather than according to a narrow perscription of "rules" that excludes some tools (for example, certain POVs) in favor of others.

d) her general philosophy of writing, story, and of the use of language rings true.

e) her openness and her wide variety of examples and excersizes are helpful for learning to find your own voice as a writer and stretch it. She shares what she knows to help you develop yourself, but she does not teach you to write just like Ursula K. LeGuin. She is not condescending, not a do-it my way captain, rather she feels like a fellow crewmember on the craft, although one who has been on many many more voyages.

This is not a book if you want 10 Rules for Instant Bestselling Fiction. But it is an excellent book if you want to put in the work to develop your craft and find your own voice as a writer. I find that I return to this book again and again.

Rating: 5 / 5
Date: 2009-08-17
Summary: "Great tool"

I have always been a fan of Ursula Le Guin for her wonderful, descriptive writing. She always seems to draw me into another world. I ordered this based on that admiration and was very pleased to find a great tool for helping new writers better their craft.

Rating: 5 / 5
Date: 2009-03-23
Summary: "Great for Writing Teachers"

Anyone who wants to improve their writing needs this. Anyone who wants some great writing exercises for teaching a class needs this book

Rating: 5 / 5
Date: 2008-11-28
Summary: "Excellent manual on the basic elements of the fiction writing"

In Steering the Craft, Le Guin's aim is "to clarify and to intensify" elements of prose writing through brief lectures on writing topics, interesting follow-up examples from literature, and writing exercises. She stresses that the examples and the writing should be read aloud, whether alone or in a group. Some of writers used as examples are Charlotte Bronte, Mark Twain, Jane Austen, J.R.R. Tolkien, and Virginia Woolf. At the end of each exercise, there are discussions on how to critique the exercise and things to think/talk about after writing.

Le Guin also gives further readings, what you can do with the writing later, and optional exercises. She also has valuable opinion pieces on such elements as characters, paragraphs, and narrative tense. The opinion pieces take on "rules" or worries a writer may have come across from reading other writing books or in workshops, things that stifle creativity. Her voice is encouraging and warm, yet she still manages to make it clear how important being comfortable with these elements of craft are for strong, nuanced writing.

The primary weakness is that most of the writers Le Guin selected for her examples are from the 19th century. She only uses only a few examples from late 20th century writers. Considering how craft elements such as POV and narrative voice are used these days, it would have been helpful to have contemporary writers for her examples as well. That juxtaposition between writing styles could have sparked a few challenging writing exercises.

This book is ideal for teachers of grad students in fiction writing, instructors in fiction writing workshops, or experienced writers who want to clean up bad habits. Although this book can be used for a creative nonfiction writing course, Le Guin came up with the ideas in Steering the Craft through her experiences in teaching fiction writing workshops and her examples are all from fiction sources.

Rating: 5 / 5
Date: 2008-08-31
Summary: "It will make you a better writer"

This book was recommended in another book (I can't remember which now) for it's chapters on POV and voice. I have never read one of LeGuin's novels, but I decided to borrow it from my library. Boy, am I glad I did! I liked it so much that I renewed it the maximum number of times, made my mother check it out next, and still plan to buy it when my next paycheck comes through.

Its chapters are clear, concise and detailed, going through the basic stuff (eg 1st person POV vs 3rd) and beyond (eg fly-on-the-wall vs involved author). Best of all, LeGuin uses examples from well-known authors like Charles Dickens, Jane Austen and J.R.R. Tolkien to illustrate these.

The exercises are so useful and have so many different variants, that I think I will be doing them for a long time. I would strongly advise this book to anyone who wants to improve their story writing skills.