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| Author | : Ursula K. Le Guin |
| Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
| Total Pages | : 163 |
| Release | : 2015 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 0544611616 |
A revised and updated guide to the essentials of a writer's craft, presented by a brilliant practitioner of the art
| Author | : Ursula K. Le Guin |
| Publisher | : Tin House Books |
| Total Pages | : 124 |
| Release | : 2018-04-03 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1947793004 |
Ursula K. Le Guin discusses her fiction, nonfiction, and poetry?both her process and her philosophy?with all the wisdom, profundity, and rigor we expect from one of the great writers of the last century. When the New York Times referred to Ursula K. Le Guin as America’s greatest writer of science fiction, they just might have undersold her legacy. It’s hard to look at her vast body of work?novels and stories across multiple genres, poems, translations, essays, speeches, and criticism?and see anything but one of our greatest writers, period. In a series of interviews with David Naimon (Between the Covers), Le Guin discusses craft, aesthetics, and philosophy in her fiction, poetry, and nonfiction respectively. The discussions provide ample advice and guidance for writers of every level, but also give Le Guin a chance to to sound off on some of her favorite subjects: the genre wars, the patriarchy, the natural world, and what, in her opinion, makes for great writing. With excerpts from her own books and those that she looked to for inspiration, this volume is a treat for Le Guin’s longtime readers, a perfect introduction for those first approaching her writing, and a tribute to her incredible life and work.
| Author | : Ursula K. Le Guin |
| Publisher | : Mariner Books |
| Total Pages | : 337 |
| Release | : 2019 |
| Genre | : Literary Collections |
| ISBN | : 0358212103 |
A collection of essays on life and literature, from one of the most iconic authors and astute critics in contemporary letters. Words Are My Matter is essential reading: a collection of talks, essays, and criticism by Ursula K. Le Guin, a literary legend and unparalleled voice of our social conscience. Here she investigates the depth and breadth of contemporary fiction--and, through the lens of literature, gives us a way of exploring the world around us. In "Freedom," Le Guin notes: "Hard times are coming, when we'll be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now ... to other ways of being, and even imagine real grounds for hope. We'll need writers who can remember freedom--poets, visionaries--realists of a larger reality." Le Guin was one of those authors and inWords Are My Matter she gives us just that: a vision of a better reality, fueled by the power and might and hope of language and literature.
| Author | : Ursula K. Le Guin |
| Publisher | : Ultramarine Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 280 |
| Release | : 1979 |
| Genre | : Fantastic fiction |
| ISBN | : 9780399504822 |
| Author | : John S. Letcher |
| Publisher | : International Marine Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 262 |
| Release | : 1974 |
| Genre | : Sailboats |
| ISBN | : 9780877420422 |
| Author | : Lisa Zeidner |
| Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
| Total Pages | : 211 |
| Release | : 2021-02-09 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 0393356124 |
A thorough, illuminating, and entertaining guide to crafting point of view, a fiction writer’s most essential choice. Who is telling the story to whom is the single most important question about any work of fiction; the answer is central to everything from style and tone to plot and pacing. Using hundreds of examples from Jane Austen to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Leo Tolstoy to Stephen King, novelist and longtime MFA professor Lisa Zeidner dives deep into the points of view we are most familiar with—first and third person—and moves beyond to second-person narration, frame tales, and even animal points of view. Engaging and accessible, Who Says? presents any practicing writer with a new system for choosing a point of view, experimenting with how it determines the narrative, and applying these ideas to revision.
| Author | : Francine Prose |
| Publisher | : Union Books |
| Total Pages | : 263 |
| Release | : 2012-04-01 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 1908526149 |
In her entertaining and edifying New York Times bestseller, acclaimed author Francine Prose invites you to sit by her side and take a guided tour of the tools and tricks of the masters to discover why their work has endured. Written with passion, humour and wisdom, Reading Like a Writer will inspire readers to return to literature with a fresh eye and an eager heart – to take pleasure in the long and magnificent sentences of Philip Roth and the breathtaking paragraphs of Isaac Babel; to look to John le Carré for a lesson in how to advance plot through dialogue and to Flannery O’ Connor for the cunning use of the telling detail; to be inspired by Emily Brontë ’ s structural nuance and Charles Dickens’ s deceptively simple narrative techniques. Most importantly, Prose cautions readers to slow down and pay attention to words, the raw material out of which all literature is crafted, and reminds us that good writing comes out of good reading.
| Author | : Donald Maass |
| Publisher | : Penguin |
| Total Pages | : 226 |
| Release | : 2016-12-30 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 1440348375 |
Engage Your Readers with Emotion While writers might disagree over showing versus telling or plotting versus pantsing, none would argue this: If you want to write strong fiction, you must make your readers feel. The reader's experience must be an emotional journey of its own, one as involving as your characters' struggles, discoveries, and triumphs are for you. That's where The Emotional Craft of Fiction comes in. Veteran literary agent and expert fiction instructor Donald Maass shows you how to use story to provoke a visceral and emotional experience in readers. Topics covered include: • emotional modes of writing • beyond showing versus telling • your story's emotional world • moral stakes • connecting the inner and outer journeys • plot as emotional opportunities • invoking higher emotions, symbols, and emotional language • cascading change • story as emotional mirror • positive spirit and magnanimous writing • the hidden current that makes stories move Readers can simply read a novel...or they can experience it. The Emotional Craft of Fiction shows you how to make that happen.
| Author | : Laozi |
| Publisher | : Shambhala Publications |
| Total Pages | : 162 |
| Release | : 2009 |
| Genre | : Audiobooks |
| ISBN | : 1590307445 |
"Ursula K. Le Guin, a student of the Tao Te Ching for more than fifty years, offers her own thoughtful rendering of the Taoist scripture. She has consulted the literal translations and worked with the scholar J. P. Seaton to develop a version that lets the ancient text speak in a fresh way to modern people, while remaining faithful to the original Chinese. This rendition reveals the Tao Te Ching's immediate relevance and power, its depth and refreshing humor, illustrating better than ever before why it has been so loved for more than 2,500 years. Included are Le Guin's own personal commentary and notes along with two audio CDs of the text read by the author, with original music composed and performed by Todd Barton."--Publisher's website.
| Author | : Ursula K. Le Guin |
| Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
| Total Pages | : 241 |
| Release | : 2017 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : 1328661598 |
From acclaimed author Ursula K. Le Guin, a collection of thoughts--always adroit, often acerbic--on aging, belief, the state of literature, and the state of the nation
