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Book: Steering the Craft: A Twenty-First-Century Guide to Sailing the Sea of Story
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  1. Ursula K. Le Guin _ Steering the Craft: A

    Somehow is a super-weasel, a word that betrays that the author didn't want to bother thinking out the story-"Somehow
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  2. Ursula K. Le Guin _ Steering the Craft: A

    Every so often somebody writes a story or novel in the second person under the impression that it hasn't been done before."
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  3. Ursula K. Le Guin _ Steering the Craft: A

    My use of their is socially motivated and, if you like, politically correct: a deliberate response to the socially and politically significant banning of our genderless pronoun by language legislators enforcing the notion that the male sex is the only one that counts. I consistently break a rule I consider to be not only fake but pernicious. I
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  4. Ursula K. Le Guin _ Steering the Craft: A

    Ultimately you write alone.
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  5. Ursula K. Le Guin _ Steering the Craft: A

    A writer who wants to write good stuff needs to read great stuff. If you don't read widely, or read only writers in fashion at the moment, you'll have a limited idea of what can be done with the English language.
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  6. Ursula K. Le Guin _ Steering the Craft: A

    To break a rule you have to know the rule. A blunder is not a revolution.
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  7. Ursula K. Le Guin _ Steering the Craft: A

    Style is a very simple matter; it is all rhythm. Once you get that, you can't use the wrong words. But on the other hand here am I sitting after half the morning, crammed with ideas, and visions, and so on, and can't dislodge them, for lack of the right rhythm. Now this is very profound, what rhythm is, and goes far deeper than words. A sight, an emotion, creates this wave in the mind, long before it makes words to fit it.
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  8. Ursula K. Le Guin _ Steering the Craft: A

    There are a limited number of plots {some say seven, some say twelve, some say thirty}. There is no limit to the number of stories.
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  9. Ursula K. Le Guin _ Steering the Craft: A

    Ultimately you write alone. And ultimately you and you alone can judge your work. The judgment that a work is complete-this is what I meant to do, and I stand by it-can come only from the writer, and it can be made rightly only by a writer who's learned to read her own work. Group criticism is great training for self-criticism. But until quite recently no writer had that training, and yet they learned what they needed. They learned it by doing it.
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  10. Ursula K. Le Guin _ Steering the Craft: A

    To make something well is to give yourself to it, to seek wholeness, to follow spirit. To learn to make something well can take your whole life. It's worth it.
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