Here's what I did:
1. Find a good novel and observe sentence structure, wording, and punctuation use. Find a sentence you like and change it using different words and see how that sounds to you. It also helps to do research on sentence structure and such to get a better understanding. It may seem a bit overloading at first, but it'll get easier the more you work on it.
2. Practice, practice, practice! I can't stress that enough. I've spent the past 12 years getting where I am now, and the change is pretty obvious when you compare my first works with my writings today.
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"Sick cultures show a complex of symptoms such as you have named . . . but a DYING culture invariably exhibits personal rudeness. Bad manners. Lack of consideration for others in minor matters. A loss of politeness, of gentle manners, is more significant than is a riot."
-- Robert Heinlein in Friday
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