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If your grammar isn't solid, read a grammar book. Increase your vocabulary by just reading daily, or even consider just reading a dictionary.

Read The Elements of Style by Strunk and White.

Read and write every day. Actively seek out authors known to have good prose. Read and examine how they write, their style. Try to write stuff in the same style they did as an exercise to build up the different ways you can write the same thing. Don't full on copy a writer's style when you're finally writing with proper intent, it will be blatant.

Read up on literary devices. Read up on how to write poetry, it'll help you to make better sentences in prose.

Try to write the same thing multiple times but in different ways. Learn about point of view and how to create internal dialogue. Learn about how to infer things, learn about 'show, don't tell' but don't be enslaved by it, it's a tool not a rule.

Biggest things off the top of my head.

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