Well, you nailed it, write daily and read daily. Read author's you like, who write in the style you'd like to write in. I sometimes pick up Kate Atkinson's When Will There Be Good News and just read passages just to get her pacing down, then start writing my own.
Oh this is interesting! I've always loved reading and writing, and also I've always loved fanfiction, even before I knew there was a name for it. Ah, the sex-writing, that's a big problem for me. I find it really difficult...even if I've been reading high-rated fics for years (you don't want to know exactly how many...) That's why I mostly stick to angst. I know angst, I angst a lot, I can do angst. In a pretty convincing way, I suppose. The word lists are a very good idea IMHO. I should try them, especially because I always need to pay attention to my English lest it gets too rusty or worse than it is already.
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Ah, the sex-writing, that's a big problem for me. I find it really difficult...even if I've been reading high-rated fics for years (you don't want to know exactly how many...) That's why I mostly stick to angst. I know angst, I angst a lot, I can do angst. In a pretty convincing way, I suppose.
The word lists are a very good idea IMHO. I should try them, especially because I always need to pay attention to my English lest it gets too rusty or worse than it is already.
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