I received wonderful advice from a friend of mine and I'm thinking of starting to make this my writing schedule also!

I would say to write often - start off once a week with 5 sentences and post it on italki for corrections. Every week or 2 weeks write a little more, a sentence, to get used to longer work at a manageable rate. While its good to choose random topics, my friend told me to use new vocabulary words every week with my writing. For example, if this week I'm focusing on learning french vocabulary for animals, I will write to include some of the words and new verbs in the weekly writing exercise.

Read the news! Like New York Times, the New Yorker, NPR (I'm biased because I'm from NYC haha) to see writing in action.

My friend liked writing stories in other languages to practice discription and dialogue.

I would be free to help out as a native english speaker!

Note #19. Dentists comparison

Recently, I visited a dentist. It was not <s>that</s> the dentist who I usually visit, <s>but</s> it was one recommended to me by my wife. She said, “He is the best dentist in the town! I want you to try another doctor, not your regular one. <s>Because</s> I think yours <s>is not</s> isn't as professional as you <s>are used to think</s> think.” Ok, no problem! Let’s check your superdoctor!

To be quite honest, the interior looked great: new furniture, shiny tile, smiley receptionist - everything made me feel <s>of luxury </s> luxurious.<s> Having</s> I <s>come</s> came up to reception and I said that I’d come <s>and ready</s> for an examination. I was immediately escorted to the dentist by a nurse. By the way, I also liked <s>their</s> the modern equipment and comfortable dental chair in the doctor’s <s>cabinet</s> office. After noticing that I had healthy teeth due to the quality work that had already been done on them, the dentist gave me a short consultation <s>after noticing that I had good teeth due to quality restoring done before,</s> and thought that I needed to <s>feel</s> fill in only two teeth instead of four (I <s>wanted to</s> prepared 4 of my teeth <s>for crowns installation</s> with the expectation I would need crowns for them). I thought it was great <s>for me</s>, because I would pay less money. I <s>hadn’t known yet</s> how much I was mistaken. (Or " I didn't know how wrong I was")

The first thing that worried me was getting x-rayed four times in a row. Usually it needs only one image, if the teeth are located nearby. When they were taking a photo for the fourth time, I thought that my teeth would glow in the dark. The second moment that worried me <s>Second worrying moment</s> was when something fell on my tongue<s>,</s> while the dentist was drilling a tooth <s>and</s><s style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">.</s> I almost swallowed it!

<s>And</s> finally, the price of the service totally killed me. It was seven times more expensive<s>, </s>than in my old <s>dentistry</s> dentist!

I made a few corrections but it was really good! :)