Two Books for Writers

Ursula le Guin was and is one of my favorite writers, and when she published a book on writing some twenty years ago, I grabbed it at once. I wasn’t disappointed. Steering the Craft: Exercises and Discussions on Story Writing for the Lone Navigator or the Mutinous Crew has been my go-to book on writing ever since, most especially because it contained the only writing exercises and prompts I ever felt I would learn something from doing that I couldn’t have learned from simply writing a story f...