Dunno if anybody has seen or mentioned this book before, but I've been enjoying (and using) Ursula Le Guin's Steering the Craft.
www.amazon.com/exec/obido...s&n=507846
Each chapter is dedicated to different aspects of writing, and includes in-depth exercises that you can either do by yourself or in a group. A friend recommended it to me, and I'm passing it on.
She's got an interesting chapter on editing yourself for the overuse of adjectives and adverbs, which I think some of you might appreciate.
Another exercise (and this is me, describing it quite succinctly) has you describe a person who isn't present by describing a room they've occupied. (That description of the exercise doesn't really do it justice---she includes some interesting parameters which really make the exercise challenging.)
Anyway, thought some of you would be interested in checking it out.
NOTE: I accidently posted this first in the forum for Freelance Writing--I meant to post it here instead. Can somebody delete my thread over there??
www.amazon.com/exec/obido...s&n=507846
Each chapter is dedicated to different aspects of writing, and includes in-depth exercises that you can either do by yourself or in a group. A friend recommended it to me, and I'm passing it on.
She's got an interesting chapter on editing yourself for the overuse of adjectives and adverbs, which I think some of you might appreciate.
Another exercise (and this is me, describing it quite succinctly) has you describe a person who isn't present by describing a room they've occupied. (That description of the exercise doesn't really do it justice---she includes some interesting parameters which really make the exercise challenging.)
Anyway, thought some of you would be interested in checking it out.
NOTE: I accidently posted this first in the forum for Freelance Writing--I meant to post it here instead. Can somebody delete my thread over there??