Full name: The Plot Thickens: 8 Ways to Bring Fiction to Life

Author: Noah Lukeman Year: 2002 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Writing, Non Fiction Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780312309282 0312309287

As a literary agent, Noah Lukeman hears thousands of book pitches a year. Often the stories sound great in concept, but never live up to their potential on the page. Lukeman shows beginning and advanced writers how to implement the fundamentals of successful plot development, such as character building and heightened suspense and conflict. Writers will find it impossible to walk away from this invaluable guide---a veritable fiction-writing workshop---without boundless new ideas. Similar books: The Scene Book by Sandra Scofield The Plot Whisperer by Martha Alderson Story Engineering by Larry Brooks The Fire in Fiction by Donald Maass The Spooky Art by Norman Mailer Writer's Little Helper by James V. Smith, Jr. You Are a Writer by Jeff Goins Walking on Alligators by Susan Shaughnessy Techniques of the Selling Writer by Dwight V. Swain Make a Scene by Jordan E. Rosenfeld Telling Lies for Fun & Profit by Lawrence Block The Sound on the Page by Ben Yagoda Theme & Strategy by Ronald B. Tobias Conflict, Action and Suspense by William Noble The Career Novelist by Donald Maass The First Five Pages by Noah Lukeman A Dash of Style by Noah Lukeman Dreyer's English by Benjamin Dreyer Self-Editing for Fiction Writers by Renni Browne The Essential Guide to Freelance Writing by Zachary Petit