I'll help you OP
read this
http://www.chinapage.com/gnl.htmlit's the Tao De Ching
the reason I post this is because it's language is extremely plain but also beautiful and insightful
now, what you need to do when you write is stop analyzing things. Most likely you've read too much modern and postmodern literature, literature that is always trying to analyze human psychology and embed "deep" thoughts into everyday scenes and objects, and overwrought descriptions of just about everything. This is dreadful, it's really a vice. If you want to wake up from this vice then read Céline's "trifles for a massacre" online (.pdf); it's mostly an anti-Jewish pamphlet but he he scours this hyper-analytical, hyper-objective, hyper-scientistic aspect of modern writing.
Anyhow, if you want to learn how to write here is what you have to do. You have to pick one of the epic poems - Iliad, Odyssey, Aeneid, Divine Comedy, Beowulf, Paradise Lost. Basically, any long narrative poem with a metre. Then you are going to read exclusively that poem that you've chosen. It's best if it's in the original language rather than translated, but there are good translations (e.g. Pope's Homer translations are fantastic). You stop reading everything else and read exclusively this poem, and the most important thing is that you SPEAK, or practically sing, the poem, not just read it in your head, here's why:
1. You'll learn how verse is written. You'll realize that composing verse (and this spills over into prose to an extent too) is not all about having an abstract thought and then trying to find the words to articulate it. It's about having a sense of rhythm and melody, like composing music, such that the words come out in an hypnotic-automatic way. This is the essence of eloquence as well, when the words find you instead of you having to find the words.
2. Memorization of lines is extremely powerful. It trains your linguistic and imaginative skills. Reading prose through once the first time is like skimming through a puddle. Reading a part of an epic poem which you've memorized, and you knowing precisely how it fits into the larger poem, is like diving into clear ocean waters and seeing all the aquatic life beneath. When you know the words before you read them they have much more power, because you're not just taking them in passively, no, they are coming out of you, out of your memory, and so they have an active force. Trust me, with this technique you will experience almost hallucinations the power it will have on your imagination. It will be like your childhood dreaming. Memorizing an epic poem is better than reading a hundred literary novels. The essence of the novel is really a kind of languid daydreaming, it's extremely passive and fluid and tepid (weak). An epic poem has power/force.
