Personally, I find this overly simplistic and I believe it's misleading. I write, review, and edit professionally as about 1/2 of my current job, and I see tons of awful writing by people who write every week. Believing you just need to write regularly to improve is like believing that if you play tons of gigs on your instrument you'll get better. How many really bad musicians have you seen who have been stuck at bas…
>Read really good writing Any favorites? I like the writing style of some authors in your study books (Pinker, Le Guin, Zinsser) but what books really inspire you in terms of sheer writing genius? (in both fiction and non-fiction)
oh man that's tough, and especially hard to separate how much of what you love is the writing vs the content. But what springs to mind right now ... hmm. Frans de Waal, is IMHO the best at writing science for regular people, his last two are brilliant. Oliver Sacks too. Ted Gioia on music history. Peter Drucker on business. OTOH that's what I have! :-)