For Writers of Original Fiction

I think I just get better through practice. I have a BA in English, but I never took any creative writing as part of that...it was all literary analysis. Of course, I think analyzing books of the style you want to write is one of the best ways to get started. I pick apart everything I read. I can't help that, it's just a quirk of my personality, and mentally I keep track of different writing techniques that I like or that bother me. I also read a lot of how to books. The Marshall Plan books as well as the Writer's Digest Books on Plot, Setting and Description, Dialogue, etc. have been helpful to me. I take what I like out of those books, and ignore what I don't. :)