[probably_wrong]

I'm afraid the only community I know which teaches how to write papers is typically your local University. If that's not an option (understandably), at the very least you want to partner up with someone who did it before.

Look for coding meetups in your area, and find someone with experience. It's not unusual to work in pairs, where the more experienced one writes the paper while the other one runs the experiments.

If you are having troubles reading papers, that's your first step: sit down with simple, short papers, and work through them. Reading papers, just like reading code, it's a skill that you obtain with practice.

[gus_massa]

I agree with this. There is a lot of unwritten protocol in publishing and it's usually better to pair with someone that know how to select the journal, fight with the editor and referees, how many cites to use, ...

But be careful because there are also workaholics in academia, so select someone that is happy with your amount of time dedicated to this.