I’d add to this that most “How to write” or “style guide” books aren’t useful. They can help you to turn really bad prose into serviceable prose, but they can’t make you a good writer. For that you need to spend thousands of hours reading the work of expert writers. If you read a style guide like Strunk and White, you’ll come across a lot of nonsense. A particular bugbear of mine is the prohibition against passives,…
He also argues against using the passive, because simple conjunctions/prepositions are replaced by longer than needed phrases that just shit up the pages. If you switch to active you can then write with more precision and cut more text out during editing. Other advice I found useful was to never edit as you write, or you'll never finish.