I think the overarching thing to do is to simply write more. To that end, there are a lot of ways to make this happen. For example: participating in NaNoWriMo, committing to writing a sequence of articles about topic X, engaging in discourse online, summarizing research papers for a larger audience, writing guest articles for a blog, or journaling.
As for improving your actual workflow, I think that the Typical Writing Class you take in school largely gets it right. For example, writing outlines / summaries before starting the actual writing, asking people to proofread, have several drafts / edit, and try to imagine reading it from the reader’s perspective w/o the extra context you have as a writer.
(I think most of the dissatisfaction I had with the skills taught to me during class had a lot more to do with the context of “Oh man, I have to write this thing using this technique for school and not of my own volition?” rather than the skills themselves not being very good.)
I think the overarching thing to do is to simply write more. To that end, there are a lot of ways to make this happen. For example: participating in NaNoWriMo, committing to writing a sequence of articles about topic X, engaging in discourse online, summarizing research papers for a larger audience, writing guest articles for a blog, or journaling.
As for improving your actual workflow, I think that the Typical Writing Class you take in school largely gets it right. For example, writing outlines / summaries before starting the actual writing, asking people to proofread, have several drafts / edit, and try to imagine reading it from the reader’s perspective w/o the extra context you have as a writer.
(I think most of the dissatisfaction I had with the skills taught to me during class had a lot more to do with the context of “Oh man, I have to write this thing using this technique for school and not of my own volition?” rather than the skills themselves not being very good.)