Books and websites on writing

I can recommend "Writing Fiction: A Beginner's Guide".

It was created for teenagers, so keeps things simple, but covers all the main topics. If you analyse even a part of what and how you write using their simple subjects, you'll be some way ahead of the game, I suspect.

Then the trick is to stop thinking and start typing, of course.

David Lodge's the Art of Fiction features a delightful novelist and professor writing short essays explaining how different passages taken from classic works display various writing tactics. Maybe not perfect for a beginner in the practical sense but very inspirational, by way of pointing out brilliant things people have done.

These recommendations are great: many thanks once again!