1). You can only improve with practice. Or, rather, the more you write, the better you get. It's going to take time, it's going to take effort, and it's going to be giving yourself a lot of grace, but you will get better with each piece you work on. Have patience! Rome wasn't built in a day and your writing empire isn't going to burn in one.
2). Write with audacity, write for yourself, write to just get the words out, etc, etc. Audacity may simply not hyper-focusing on the fact that your skill level now can't spin the art you want to yet. I've been writing for years but I still have some ideas that I either have to chip away at slowly or I'm waiting longer to write them because I don't feel like I have the proper words to spin it into art. Just do it.
3). Going slow is not bad.
Everyone writes at a different paces at different times. It used to frustrate me when I would only write a couple hundred words compared to someone else's four or five hundred words in the same time span (The writers I was around at that time were also creating a toxic environment that was more numbers than story based as being a measurement of success. While that works as approach for some people, in the long run it is not a healthy thing to push onto others as the saving grace to all writing styles. Anyways. Neither here nor there.). And honestly, you probably will go slow in the beginning. You'll have things you're working on that go so slow in trying to get the words to work that you'll want to tear your hair out. But it's okay! I have times where I go slow now because there's just no other way to paint this particular work into being. There's beauty in the process and sometimes that process is a slow as the tortoise and other times it's as fast as the hare, but in the end they both cross the line.
4). You aren't going to be pleased with everything you write. In fact, you might downright hate it. And that's okay. But don't let it turn into self-loathing. No one puts out 100% perfect work 100% of the time. I have fics that I've thrown out there that I haven't looked at since I've written them because I can't stand them because they threaten to make me cringe my way out of my skin. I have a series that was such an immense pain to write by the time I finished it that I only go back to look at it as a reference to see what I did previously with a certain magic element. One or two or five bad works is not a reflection on your writing as a whole. And sometimes you got to get the crummy writing out of the way first before you can get to the less-crummy and wait a second is this actually good oh crap it is writing.
5). Know yourself and your writing habits. The jokes about coffee and tea and writing with music (or not) hold some truth to them. Everyone has different environments that work for them, different variations on those environments when one doesn't work out, but try some things out! While I don't recommend the three shots of pure espresso in the span of four hours and writing 20k words in the span of a weekend when you have five sort of major assignments due by Sunday way, a nice coffee or hot chocolate or mug of tea can work just as well. Or water. Definitely stay hydrated, folks. Writing is hard and you'll thank yourself for the hydration later.
Writing is a craft and that craft takes time to master and improve on. I won't direct you towards youtube to look for specific writing advice, or even writing books by authors that tote their advice as the best advice, because while those can be helpful, I find them to be restricting and unhelpful to my methods of writing. That might not be the case for you. In fact, take my advice with a grain of salt, it's not catch all, one size fits all, do or die advice. But do be wary of those that say my way is the only way and if you don't do it my way, you're wrong and are going to do badly. Tis simply not true.
That was perhaps a bit of an excessively long post and I apologize it took me so long to get to this. Have a potato...and have fun!!!
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