How can I do well on writing?

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how can I my characters, their dialogue, the issues and situations well written? cause so far I have a lot of tense issues and my dialogues are kinda messy (well actually it was to describe the character's accent and how he/she pronounced the words).

So how can I make my writing better?
and the experiences and plots as well.
 
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For the fortunate few it comes easily. For the rest of us writing well takes patience and practice. There is no such thing as a writer. It is a misnomer. But there are thousands of ‘rewriters’ who constantly edit and hone their work and are rarely satisfied with the final product. However, if a piece of writing is ever to be published or submitted, you will have to ultimately find satisfaction in what you wrote and move on to the next project.

If you want an online tutorial visit the Purdue Owl’s Writing Lab:

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/

And, as I like to say, if one is to write well, one must read well. For starters this means confining your reading to quality literature.

Click the following links lists of the 100 all-time best novels:

http://www.randomhouse.com/modernlibrary…

http://www.randomhouse.com/modernlibrary…

http://www.the-bookman.com/main/Best.boo…

http://bluepyramid.org/library/bookcomp.…

Keep in mind these lists are subjective, i.e., the opinions of a select group of literary pundits, not the opinion of the masses. You can work your way through the lists and, yes, you may find a book or two that is pure drudgery, i.e., you can’t please everyone all of the time. If this is the case, get another book and move on.

I read most of the books in these lists back in the 1980s, and it has greatly benefited and improved my writing.

Some of my favorites:

The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
An American Tragedy – Theodore Dreiser
Catch-22 – Joseph Heller
The Call of the Wild by Jack London
To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Moby Dick – Herman Melville
Winesburg, Ohio – Sherwood Anderson
 
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