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Need basic tools and ways to practice and polish my writing skills

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What are the ways to practice and improve basic writing, like content and creative writing? I am not planning to write or learn to write fictional stories.

By creative writing, I mean the essentials of writing anything is to first be creative. Any good writer is witty, eloquent and creative. Though my grammar is excellent technically, I can write on the topics of my interest. But I lack the key writing skills. I need to learn and practice my creative writing skills, which I think is the key to writing well. I want to be able to write a blog where I can write on anything without having to spend time over it.

Furthermore, I am reading The Elements of Style by Strunk, Perfect English Grammar: The Indispensable Guide to Excellent Writing and Speaking, and another book on grammar. I am using the Language tool extension for basic correction.

Can you please give me some basic sources to practice my writing skills? Such as some great YouTube channel, or a website which gives exercises or provides something to learn by copying.

I hope this question is specific enough for the rules, and it will be beneficial for many readers as well who are just beginning their literary journey.

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"or a website which gives exercises" (1 comment)
Practice writing by reading (1 comment)
Practice writing by reading
Lundin‭ wrote about 3 years ago

You will almost certainly not find any online sources that are better than simply reading well-written prose by established authors. Analyse it if you will - find some part that you like a lot, then ponder why the author wrote it the way they did.