I picked up a couple of books on writing a few months ago, in an effort to get serious about writing; The Elements of Style, and On Writing Well by William Zinsser. Also, I recommend Stephen King's autobiography On Writing -- I've read and listened to that book probably more than 10 times through, having never even read any of his fiction. It's good.
Becoming a better writer is probably just as simple as everyone says it is: read and write a lot, and then you start to pick up on things naturally from there. Noticing patterns and methods, etc.
My writing has improved considerably over the past few years, mostly through reading books and writing a journal, but it's only recently that I begun consciously trying to become better at it. And so I'm very interested in hearing what people have to say on this.
Steve?
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