All this is why fuzzy thinking and poor writing often go together. In fact, they are probably the same thing. I have never met a brilliant, clear, and logical thinker who was a bad writer, nor have a met a great writer who did not also think well. Writing is not simply the task of reporting your fully formed thoughts. Writing is part of the process of forming them.
Writing is a creative process.
But what many people mean by a creative process is that writers make things up in their heads, with little input from the outside world. Good writers are also voracious but discerning readers, and perhaps the best way to improve your writing besides having someone who writes well regularly critique your work is to read the output of good writers and try to make your writing as much like theirs as you can. To write well you must read good writing. Writing is one field in which that old computer programmer s saw Garbage In, Garbage Out clearly applies. That means regularly reading serious, high-quality periodicals such as The Economist , The Nation , The New Yorker , The New York Review of Books , The Atlantic , Harper s , The Times Literary Supplement , Lingua Franca or other important weeklies and monthlies, as well as the quality national and international press such as The New York Times , The Washington Post , The Wall Street Journal , The Financial Times , and similar newspapers.