How To Be A Great Writer

Beginning writers most often ask, "How do I become a great writer like (fill in the blank)?"

The answer is simple. Read a lot and write a lot.

First, don't become a writer like ______. Any two famous writers you can name, have different writing styles known as voice. You first need to find your own voice, then just keep writing.

How do you find your voice? The best method is simply to write what you know and write a whole lot. Also, read many different authors and read a lot. Once you write enough you will have a certain style. It will just happen without your thinking about it. That is your voice.

Once you have established your voice. just keep reading to improve your vocabulary and keep writing to, well, improve your writing.

Look at it this way. A professional athlete doesn't just wake up one day and decide I'm going to play professional sports for a living. They have to practice and exercise and exercise and practice, until they become the best they can be. And they don't stop there, they keep on doing the same to get better. Unfortunately for atheletes, eventually their bodies decline with age so their careers are often short. But barring any mental incapacity, a writer can go on until he or she draws their last breath. Kinda cool, huh?

So keep writing everyday and don't be satisfied with your writing. Keep adjusting and tweaking and practicing until you are the best you can be as a writer. And lo and behold, you will be a great writer.
Will it be easy? No. But as P.T. Barnum once wrote about being successful, "Just do what you do best and keep doing it until your the best at what you do."