Title: Just another writing book, but a good one
Product review: After reading Immediate Fiction by Jerry Cleaver, I admit my expectations were very high for Lukeman's book, especially in light of the excellent reviews it got here. I was somewhat disappointed. While The First Five Pages does a great job of outlining common mistakes in writing (generally speaking, not just in the opening pages), it falls short in the How Do I Fix It department. Yes, it discusses the Dos vs. the Don'ts but it left me unsure how I go about recognizing the problems in my own work or the process of how to fix them. Just showing examples doesn't work for me. I need a process: here's what you look for, here's what you do when you find it. That's what I found in Cleaver's book, but I did not find it here. If you learn well from examples of Dos and Don'ts, this book might be very helpful. If you want to learn a process, go with Jerry Cleaver.
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