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I remember how hard was to write the first time I did it. I was spending a lot of time trying to come up with subjects for articles, to figure out how to write good sentences and how to share my ideas in a good way, all in order to create high quality content. It was time consuming and tiring.

Today writing is easy. I can come up with subjects pretty fast and if I'm not really tired, I can write a few articles in a fairly short amount of time. For those who never really wrote anything in their life and who want to get to this level, it seems really hard or even impossible. For those who are already at this level or above, they know all it took was a lot of practice.

Writing is one of those things you cannot get good at without practicing. Maybe you would be able to learn how to build computers without building dozens of them, or maybe you could get decent at repairing cars without actually repairing cars, just because you know how to do it. However, when it comes to writing, if you don't practice, you'll never get at the level you want to be.

The great thing about this is that practicing writing is pretty damn simple. All you need is an idea, and a computer (or a pen and a piece of paper). Then you can start writing. You can spend an hour in front of your notebook or computer trying to write an article or a story as well as you can, and when you're done you can post it somewhere online and ask for feedback.

After that all you have to do is see what other people created. My opinion is that to become good at writing, you need to learn how to read a lot. You know that quote "Good artists copy, great artists steal"? It applies to writing as well. A good writer will try to copy the work of someone else in an attempt to create something. A great writer will read the work of others, see how they did it, steal their technique and then use it to create something unique.

So, basically, practicing writing comes in two parts: first, the writing part, where you need to spend an hour a day putting words on paper, sharing your ideas, expressing them, trying to explain them and making sure the reader understands what you write and second, the reading part, where you have to spend hours reading the work of others, learning new words, learning how to create better sentences and then applying all that to your own work.

Getting good at writing isn't as hard as you may think. It's just really time consuming. The more time you spend doing it, the better you get at it. For example, when I first started publishing on Steemit I was barely able to publish once a day, and doing it twice was a complete nightmare. I wasn't good at writing at all and I was spending a lot of time creating anything.

However, now that I have some experience and I became decent at writing, more or less, I can easily write two articles for Steemit in around 30 to 45 minutes, depending on what I write, then spend the same amount of time editing everything and then publish. At the end I still have a lot of time to do whatever I want with my day and work on other things.

All that didn't involve hard practice and a lot of skill. All I did was write, and read. Every day. And that got me here. I'm still at a pretty low level compared to most people out there and I'm still trying to improve all the time, but I made some progress and I believe you can do the same. Just take your time every single day to write and read, and you'll get where you want to be faster than you'll expect.