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

The Plot Thickens is a quick and comprehensive read that makes simple suggestions for improving one's written work. Stories are necessary. Like food or water, stories have always been of supreme importance to the human race. They speak to us on a primal level, and they fill a need. Life can seem aim......more

Some good insights, some bits that I found rather dull and obvious. I might have rated it higher had the extensive questionnaire on character development not been gendered in such a frustrating way. The author defaulted to the male pronoun except for questions that he believed focused primarily on f......more

With an unusual approach to plotting, Lukeman uses a holistic, rather than a didactic, method. There is plenty of instruction and practical examples, as well as exercises, in the book, so it is a "teaching" book, but what Lukeman achieves is more than just teaching a reader "how to plot." Although t......more