Fantasy Master Le Guin teaches you to write fiction: 10 things about fiction writing

 
． This writing guide comes from the experience of a major novelist. She distills the ten most important things about writing fictional stories from her years of writing experience.
． The book is divided into ten chapters, each chapter discusses an important topic and uses examples to illustrate the key points. Exercises are provided at the end of each chapter for readers to practice alone or in a writing group.
． Topics covered include:
1. The sound of language
2. Punctuation and Grammar
3. Sentence length and structure
4. Rhythm and Repetition
5. Adjectives and adverbs
6. Verb and real state
7. Narrative point of view and voice
8. Change narrative point of view
9. Indirect narrative
10. Fullness and white space
 
Most of the examples cited in the book are taken from older novels. First, authorization to cite modern literary works is often difficult to obtain. Secondly, because Le Guin loves and is familiar with these old works. If you want to write good works, you must read great works. If you can't read widely, you won't have much idea about how to use language and words.

In addition, there is extended reading, which provides many examples and suggestions to inspire readers to think: what is the author doing when he writes like that, how does he do it, why does he do it, do I like what he does? etc.

At the end of the book, the original English paragraphs of more than ten examples are appended for readers’ reference.
 
． The first edition of the original text of this book came out in 1998. After its publication, the market responded enthusiastically and sales have been stable for ten years. A few years ago, Le Guin saw the situation in the publishing industry changing dramatically, so he came up with the idea of ​​​​rewriting this book. She updated the materials and examples in the book and rewrote the book from beginning to end.
． The target readers of the new version: writers who already have writing experience and want to further improve their story writing skills.