Good day to each and every one of you,
I am trying to be better writer, because honestly...my writing sucks. Good friend of mine (Tantrix) recommended to me this book - http://www.amazon.de/Elements-Style-William-I-Strunk/dp/020530902X . And I plan on reading that whole book but I have question. After I will finish it, are there any more books out there I should read? Or do you have any tips for beginner writer?

This is all you need:
http://plainenglish.co.uk/

You're welcome.

After you get really good at writing, remember to always put at least one its/it's, your/you're, they're/their/there or who's/whose incorrectly in your texts. It'll drive some people into a frenzy, and when they're rampaging about it, you get free PR.

On Writing of Stephen King

How to Write Good

My several years in the word game have learnt me several rules:

1. Avoid Alliteration. Always.
2. Prepositions are not words to end sentences with.
3. Avoid cliches like the plague. (They’re old hat.)
4. Employ the vernacular.
5. Eschew ampersands & abbreviations, etc.
6. Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
7. It is wrong to ever split an infinitive.
8. Contractions aren’t necessary.
9. Foreign words and phrases are not apropos.
10. One should never generalize.
11. Eliminate quotations. As Ralph Waldo Emerson once said, “I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.”
12. Comparisons are as bad as cliches.
13. Don’t be redundant; don’t use more words than necessary; it’s highly superfluous.
14. Profanity sucks.
15. Be more or less specific.
16. Understatement is always best.
17. Exaggeration is a billion times worse than understatement.
18. One word sentences? Eliminate.
19. Analogies in writing are like feathers on a snake.
20. The passive voice is to be avoided.
21. Go around the barn at high noon to avoid colloquialisms.
22. Even if a mixed metaphor sings, it should be derailed.
23. Who needs rhetorical questions?

1. Parenthetical words however must be enclosed in commas.
2. It behooves you to avoid archaic expressions.
3. Avoid archaeic spellings too.
4. Don't repeat yourself, or say again what you have said before.
5. Don't use commas, that, are not, necessary.
6. Do not use hyperbole; not one in a million can do it effectively.
7. Never use a big word when a diminutive alternative would suffice.
8. Subject and verb always has to agree.
9. Placing a comma between subject and predicate, is not correct.
10. Use youre spell chekker to avoid mispeling and to catch typograhpical errers.
11. Don't repeat yourself, or say again what you have said before.
12. Use the apostrophe in it's proper place and omit it when its not needed.
13. Don't never use no double negatives.
14. Poofread carefully to see if you any words out.
15. Hopefully, you will use words correctly, irregardless of how others use them.
16. Eschew obfuscation.
17. No sentence fragments.
18. Don't indulge in sesquipedalian lexicological constructions.
19. A writer must not shift your point of view.
20. Don't overuse exclamation marks!!
21. Place pronouns as close as possible, especially in long sentences, as of 10 or more words, to their antecedents.
22. Writing carefully, dangling participles must be avoided.
23. If any word is improper at the end of a sentence, a linking verb is.
24. Avoid trendy locutions that sound flaky.
25. Everyone should be careful to use a singular pronoun with singular nouns in their writing.
26. Always pick on the correct idiom.
27. The adverb always follows the verb.
28. Take the bull by the hand and avoid mixing metaphors.
29. If you reread your work, you can find on rereading a great deal of repetition can be by rereading and editing.
30. And always be sure to finish what

Strunk & White is more of a reference book than a book about wriitng well.

www.writingexcuses.com

Brilliant podcast with three (later four) writers giving advice on various topics. And even if the advice doesn't help, the banter is frequently hilarious.

Elements of Style is more a rulebook than a teaching book. It's a prescription for how to write journalist's or professional writer's English in a now-pedantic American style. I shudder to think of anybody trying to learn English writing just by reading it. It's much too terse for that.

The Plain English site gives many of the same prescriptions, with many good examples. It's well suited to everyday use: tasks such as writing business letters. I don't find it a particularly good example of how to write creatively.

But there is no way to learn to write well except to read much and choose your reading well.

This is brilliant! Source?

First: write. A lot. Write what you like to write about. Write for yourself first. And for practice, you can write about anything, and it doesn't always necessarily have to be in the vein of "I'm writing this for other people to read." Keep a journal. Write about your thoughts and opinions, no matter the subject. All writing helps.

Don't worry about what others may think of it, and don't constantly ask for critiques, at least not until you're more sure of yourself.

What do you like about the books you read? What don't you like about them?

The page I stole it from says:

The first set of rules was written by Frank L. Visco and originally published in the June 1986 issue of Writers' digest. The second set of rules is derived from William Safire's Rules for Writers.

To improve my english, I actually joined play per post RPG games online, usually in a comic book universe, since I liked that a lot. It forced me to write in prose, look up words to express myself properly, gave me an audience (however small) and forced creative writing and improvisation.

I learnt most of my english through comic books and a dictionary at my side and I've always thought the key to learning anything is being interested in it. Look up topics of stuff you like in english, then read books and novels from writers you like or genres you enjoy. Any words you don't understand, look them up. Any phrases you're not sure what they meant, look them up. Don't just ignore them and move on... Look. Them. Up.

What sort of writing are you trying to get better at? Technical, creative, etc...

You should be able to get a nearly free copy of The Elements of Style from any thrift store for a quarter. It's like Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, everyone has one or more copies. I'd also caution against using that as a basis for becoming a better writer as it's probably way less useful for more informal types of writing than other resources. And this as well. There's no essays in there about becoming better.

If you want to learn to write, you must read. That's pretty much it. Sure, there are thousands of tips to be had but, to be honest, many of those you learn on the way. The most important part is to keep yourself reading and therefore in contact with what you want to do.

Though here's a small tip: When writing, strive to find your own voice rather than following somebody else's style.

And since I don't want to disappoint you, I will admit that I did find this very useful many years ago when I was starting to write (And I should actually read it again soon :P):

http://hollylisle.com/how-to-start-a-novel/

Not just that how-to, but all of them. That author also wrote a free ebook called Mugging the Muse: Writing Fiction for Love AND Money, which is sadly no longer on her website though it seems to be on other places and I have a copy of it on my PC still. If you want it, send me a PM and I'll upload it for you. It was (and still is meant to be) free, so it isn't really illegal :)