I was at a conference a few years back, and a couple of the speakers referenced Noah Lukeman's The First Five Pages . I bought it and read it. It's great for highlighting the pitfalls that writers encounter. He divides the book up into three areas: Preliminary Problems, Dialogue, and The Bigger Picture. He also has great examples of the good, bad, and ugly.

Someone in my critique group recommended it recently to another writer, so I picked it up again. It's well worth reading over and over. It's definitely eye-opening when you reread your own material.

Keep writing!