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    <body><![CDATA[      The Plot Thickens: 8 ways to Bring Fiction to Life is a book that captures writing technique and style. I liked reading this book because it shows another side of writing. There is so much that a writer can do in any literary work that remains undone. Yet, almost every small facet and part in ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40147188">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This short book is an excellent intro to novel writing.  The author is a well known literary agent, so he comes at the subject from a different angle than many other writing books written by writers.  The book is very dense, full of lists of questions and scenarios that are intended to make a buddin...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49996063">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Please read this book if you're trying to write a novel. Amazing. I'm at the beginning stages of one right now and found the first section very helpful (Character development) and am planning to read it a second time after I have a draft of this thing to do some of the exercises in the later section...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/81390183">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I don't remember who recced this to me, or I'd ask them what they got out of it. I picked up a few tips, but most of the book seemed to be devoted to the obvious (Try to have at least one person other than you read the book) and the irrelevant (Pick a scene and try it out in a different place in the...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/26974744">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[It helped me develop my characters more and got me even more under their skin it's a good book]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[all of Lukeman's books are excellent.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This isn't really a book to be read in continuity. It'd probably be best used chapter-by-chapter; have a flat character, check out the character chapter. ]]></body>
    
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