![]() Each chapter concludes with a writing exercise. For any qualitative researchers who want to uses literary strategies in their writing, there are lots of useful ideas to consider and practice. ![]() ![]() These include the sound of your writing, punctuation, sentence length and complex syntax, repetition, adjective and adverb, pronoun and verb, point of view and voice, changing point of view, indirect narration, and “crowding and leaping” (which refers to “focus” – what details are included, and what are left out). Steering the craft is organized in 10 short chapters that deal with specific elements of writing. For qualitative researchers, Le Guin’s writing on writing - along with her other work - provides a source of inspiration. ![]() As one might expect from the title, this book provides ideas to writers, whether one wants to improve one’s craft as a writer individually, or with the assistance of a writing group. Her contribution to this genre is a book called Steering the craft: Exercises and discussion on story: Writing for the lone navigator or the mutinous crew (Le Guin, 1998). Like many other writers (e.g., Stephen King, Annie Dillard), she has written about the craft of writing. ![]() Like many, I discovered Le Guin’s book as a child, although she wrote numerous novels, essays, short stories, and poetry in her long career. Le Guin is known for writing fantasy fiction, among other diverse works. Ursula le Guin, one of my favorite writers, died this week at the age of 88. ![]()
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