Patricia Alice asked J.R. Lindermuth:

Is learning how to write hard to do? As I haven trying to do a little writing.

J.R. Lindermuth The only way to learn to write is to write.
You don't learn to drive by reading a manual. You learn to drive by doing it. It's the same with writing.
There's a marvelous piece of advice from Stephen King: "If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot."
Robert Louis Stevenson, another writer I admire, suggested "When you read a book or passage that pleases you, sit down at once and try to ape that quality which most pleases you."
No, that doesn't mean you should write like the writers you admire. I can write a pastiche of Hemingway. But I'm not Hemingway. You pick up bits and pieces of technique from other writers, then you make them yours.
Practice. Lots of practice. That's how you learn to write.
It's not easy, but it is worth the work.

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