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Easy answer: You need to practice writing. Complex answer: You can try for decades to carve wood and assemble it to a table; if you are doing it wrong all the time, you'll never become a carpenter...
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System
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2019-12-08T01:44:37Z (almost 5 years ago)
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#2: Initial revision
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John Smithers
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2019-12-08T01:44:37Z (almost 5 years ago)
Easy answer: You need to practice writing. Complex answer: You can try for decades to carve wood and assemble it to a table; if you are doing it wrong all the time, you'll never become a carpenter. There is another saying: You have one million words of shit in your writing. Write them down and get rid of them, then you can become an expert. The trick is not the "writing" part, it's the "get rid of them" part. You have to learn, you have to improve. Just reading a book is not enough. You have to read it in a way, so you can learn, what the author did right, what wrong. It's the same with the stuff you write. You need to know what's good, what's bad. You have to learn techniques to improve your writing. All in all, hard work with no definite outcome. Ask a carpenter, he will tell you the same thing.
#1: Imported from external source
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System
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2011-06-30T13:41:57Z (over 13 years ago)
Original score: 15