I wrote hundreds of thousands of words on role playing forums back in the day (Freelancer Discovery RP was a great time). Writing ~100 pages per semester in un

I wrote hundreds of thousands of words on role playing forums back in the day (Freelancer Discovery RP was a great time). Writing ~100 pages per semester in university also helped. Publishing a book made me realize how bad my writing still is without editing. My advice, is to write more and be systematic about how you think it is bad. Attempting to quantify that can be helpful: "I think my work is bad" is different from "2/3 friends who reviewed this draft were confused by my lack of headers". Also maybe do an edit pass yourself before taking it to your wife. Waiting 24 hours and then editing can help a lot!