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A review by shilo1364
The Plot Thickens: 8 Ways to Bring Fiction to Life by Noah Lukeman
4.0
Some good ideas, a few good exercises, but much longer than it needed to be. Also a tendency to ramble. A lot of the ideas/points feel like he's stating the obvious - but then sometimes that's useful. Some were actually very useful and made me stop and think. If it were cut to the size of Strunk & White's Elements of Style, and written in more bulleted list form - instead of rambling all over the place with overly long examples - it would be more compelling / useful.
UPDATE: after re-reading my notes, I am forced to conclude that I was a bit harsh. Upgrading to 4 stars, on merits of there being a lot more useful information than I realized at first. It could still be condensed - my original opinion was lower at least in part because of the necessity of slogging through the overly wordy and lengthy examples to get at the good bits.
UPDATE: after re-reading my notes, I am forced to conclude that I was a bit harsh. Upgrading to 4 stars, on merits of there being a lot more useful information than I realized at first. It could still be condensed - my original opinion was lower at least in part because of the necessity of slogging through the overly wordy and lengthy examples to get at the good bits.