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Steering the Craft

1998 book by Ursula K. Le Guin

9780544611610OCLC37878636

Steering the Craft: Exercises and Discussions on Story Writing for the Lone Mariner and the Mutinous Crew is a 1998 nonfiction book by Ursula K. Le Guin. Developed from a writers' workshop led by Le Guin, the book contains self-guided exercises and discussions focused on the craft of narrative prose.

In 2015, Le Guin published a revised and rewritten edition of the book with a new subtitle: Steering the Craft: A Twenty-First-Century Guide to Sailing the Sea of Story.

References

Notes

Bibliography

Cadden, Mike (2005). Ursula K. Le Guin Beyond Genre: Fiction for Children and Adults (1st ed.). New York, NY: Routledge. ISBN 0-415-99527-2.

External links

excerpt at Le Guin's site
Steering the Craft title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database

Works by Ursula K. Le Guin

Bibliography

Earthsea

Novels	A Wizard of Earthsea (1968) The Tombs of Atuan (1971) The Farthest Shore (1972) Tehanu (1990) The Other Wind (2001)
Short stories	"The Word of Unbinding" (1964) "The Rule of Names" (1964) "Dragonfly" (1997) "Darkrose and Diamond" (1999) "The Daughter of Odren" (2014) "Firelight" (2018)
Collections	Tales from Earthsea (2001) The Books of Earthsea (2018)
Adaptations	Earthsea (miniseries) (2004) Tales from Earthsea (film) (2006)
Related	Universe Characters Ged Earthsea Revisioned (1993)

Hainish
Cycle

Novels	Rocannon's World (1966) Planet of Exile (1966) City of Illusions (1967) The Left Hand of Darkness (1969) The Dispossessed (1974) The Word for World Is Forest (1976) Four Ways to Forgiveness (1995) The Telling (2000)
Short stories	"The Dowry of Angyar" (1964) "Winter's King" (1969) "Vaster than Empires and More Slow" (1971) "The Day Before the Revolution" (1974) The Shobies' Story (1990) "The Matter of Seggri" (1994) "A Man of the People" "Coming of Age in Karhide" (1995) "Mountain Ways" (1996) "Old Music and the Slave Women" (1999)
Related	Ansible

Annals of the Western Shore

Novels	Gifts (2004) Voices (2006) Powers (2007)

Other
fiction

Novels	The Lathe of Heaven (1971) Very Far Away from Anywhere Else (1976) The Eye of the Heron (1978) Malafrena (1979) The Beginning Place (1980) Always Coming Home (1985) Lavinia (2008)
Short stories	"The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" (1973) "The Diary of the Rose" (1976) "The Wife's Story" (1982) "Paradises Lost" (2002)
Collections	The Wind's Twelve Quarters (1975) Orsinian Tales (1976) The Compass Rose (1982) Buffalo Gals and Other Animal Presences (1987) A Fisherman of the Inland Sea (1994) Unlocking the Air and Other Stories (1996) The Birthday of the World (2002) Changing Planes (2003)
Children's books	Catwings (series) (1988–1999) Cat Dreams