Check out the podcast Writing Excuses. Start from the beginning. There is some really helpful and blissfully actionable storytelling advice in there, much of it given by one of the most successful writers of Fantasy (Brandon Sanderson).
As for tips to get started, i’m partial to the following advice (paraphrasing Asimov): Everyone is capable of writing good books, but there’s a catch. The catch is that is that the first million words that anyone writes will be crap. Before one can write great prose, one must first get those million crappy words out of their system.
I personally find this to be extremely liberating. It allows me to just write and enjoy crafting sentences, characters and stories without torturing myself with premature expectations of greatness. Nobody sits down at a piano for the first time and expects to play something beautiful. Treat writing the same way. Play chopsticks, enjoy yourself, and rest assured that you’ll get better!
As for tips to get started, i’m partial to the following advice (paraphrasing Asimov): Everyone is capable of writing good books, but there’s a catch. The catch is that is that the first million words that anyone writes will be crap. Before one can write great prose, one must first get those million crappy words out of their system.
I personally find this to be extremely liberating. It allows me to just write and enjoy crafting sentences, characters and stories without torturing myself with premature expectations of greatness. Nobody sits down at a piano for the first time and expects to play something beautiful. Treat writing the same way. Play chopsticks, enjoy yourself, and rest assured that you’ll get better!