Some things, like the dates in history, can be learned by repeating them, but style is not like that. It has to be appraised with sensibility and then practised. This is a painstaking quest. Our pens will some times be at fault for a while, no matter how accomplished we are. We will pause, rewrite, and amend before we are satisfied that our language has done justice to what we have in our minds to express.
Genius takes pains, improves by practice, suffers failures, succeeds often on a second or third try.
Plato, it is said, wrote the introduction to his Republic seven times over in different ways. Waiting upon inspiration is a snare. The crests of great composition rise only upon the back of constant work and effort. This work consists not alone in pounding type writer keys or scratching with a pen. It entails reading and rereading what one has written reading it aloud to get the earfeeling of it.