User blog comment:Runnungshadow/night watchers/@comment-1631480-20140307031535

I'm just going to roughly repeat what I said to another person who was also having trouble with writing. Obviously to read and write are the best ways to improve.

Sometimes using imagination can be a skill, and it takes lots of thought and study to make it stronger. When writing a story or concept, you should constantly question. This will make your story much more developed and richer. Example; Why is the protagonist trying to catch the killer if that's what the police and forensics are for? How did the killer not get caught? Why is there murder happening in the first place? etc. And do this for almost everything when writing.

Also, something that helps me with coming up with new ideas is to delve into life, because you can't get any crazier then reality. Study the patients the next time you go to therapy, or ask your parents about their upbringings. Look at the creases in the pathway, or visit the river and look at the way the water wrinkles. And just think; it doesn't have to make perfect sense. Maybe your story is about someone who remembers that he drowned, but somehow he's still alive. He insists that he's dead, but can't seem to find much evidence (Super duper copyrighted idea don't steal). With basic concepts that you aquired from looking at the water you can build apon it and turn it into something kinda cool, perhaps even decent?

Here are some links that I think will help you begin writing (I keep all these bookmarked):

101 Writing tips -- Tropes -- Writing Endings -- Everything you need to know -- Thought Verbs are important.