Write every day
Practice writing. Write every day. If you are a top-notch computer scientist, you probably read technical papers nearly every day. You are a writer too, so practice.
From RPG’s writing Broadside, also featured in Patterns of Software – tales from the software community by Richard Gabriel. This book gave me energy, back in the 1990s. Richards’ tale about founding a company helped me stay out of the dot-com craze.
I looked it up, because I remembered he writes a poem every day. Only practice makes perfect. In this book it shows.
Patterns of Software is also available as a free PDF, so why hesitate reading it?