October 05, 2002
35. Steering the Craft, Ursula K. LeGuin
Lord, I've been a reading fool today. It felt lovely to just read and ignore schoolwork for a bit. Which I should stop ignoring, starting right after I post this. But...
I've been wanting to read her book on writing for months--in fact, I've owned it for months--and today I settled down and did so. For pure entertainment value, I think I liked King's On Writing better, but LeGuin has more useful exercises and practical knowledge. I'd like to sit down and do some of the exercises sometime. Maybe at a Write Club meeting. Today, unfortunately, was out of the question. Still, some useful stuff on various "tools" of the craft and how to use them. And someone FINALLY successfully got me to understand exactly why and where "lay" and "lie" are different, and what things like "past perfect tense" mean. For an English major, I'm in desperate need of a grammar class.
Posted by Lisa at October 5, 2002 06:58 PM | 2002