Read a lot of good writers. Keeping a diary for many years helped me, I think. Zinsser's On Writing Well is the best book I've read about writing well. The bes

Read a lot of good writers. Keeping a diary for many years helped me, I think. Zinsser's On Writing Well is the best book I've read about writing well. The best writers write a first draft—which can be terrible, the quality doesn't matter—and then edit again and again and again until nothing can be improved. Then someone else reads their work and thinks, gee, no way can I write like that! Which is true—noone can write a first draft like that.