Reddit reviews The Rhetoric of Fiction

I'd recommend buying a book on writing.

I would suggest these as good places to start. If you wanted to pick just one on this list, I'd say go with James Scott Bell's Plot & Structure.

• Novelist's Essential Guide to Creating Plot by J. Madison Davis
  
  
• Novelist's Essential Guide to Crafting Scenes by Raymond Obstfeld
  
  
• Write Great Fiction - Dialogue by Gloria Kempton
  
  
• Write Great Fiction - Plot & Structure by James Scott Bell
  
  
• Write Great Fiction - Characters, Emotion & Viewpoint by Nancy Kress
  
  
• Write Great Fiction - Revision & Self-Editing by James Scott Bell
  
  
• Write Great Fiction - Description & Setting by Ron Rozelle
  
  
• The Rhetoric of Fiction by Wayne C. Booth