I recommend the following:

• Writing the Breakout Novel by Donald Maass
• On Writing by Stephen King
• Plot by Ansen Dibell
• Building Believable Characters by Mark McCutcheon
• Characters, Emotion and Viewpoint by Nancy Kress
• Conflict, Action & Suspense by William Noble
• Dynamic Characters by Nancy Kress
• Writing Great Fiction: Dialogue by Gloria Kempton
• Immediate Fiction by Jerry Cleaver
• Scene & Structure by Jack M. Bickham
• Building Better Plots by Robert Kernen
• Beginnings, Middles & Ends by Nancy Kress
• Write Great Fiction: Plot & Structure by James Scott Bell
• How Fiction Works by Oakley Hall

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