Any good writer will tell you there are at least three rules to being a good writer.
- You gotta write a lot in order to be a good writer. Of course, writing a lot in of itself doesn’t make you good. Bad writers can hammer out the same swill over and over again, never improving one iota; never moving the dial an inch, because they don’t have the context of how to do that. No, they need our second rule.
- You gotta read a lot in order to be a good writer. This includes reading things that are not necessarily in your wheelhouse. Good writing is just flat out good writing. Please read heavily from your chosen genre, but please also develop a reading habit around books that are flat out and notably good.
- Goals make great writers. If you are not writing with purpose then most of the best ideas are overlooked or flat out tossed in the trash for lack of inspiration.
Those are the three that carry you as you move forward.