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Milo Grant

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lol yeah 'imprinted themselves on your brain' when the actual sentence is you can't make the thing if you never studied it and now writing advice is just read a lot you weirdos who think prompts count as drafts. You don't call it education unless the whole point was osmosis beats a course and that structure instinct line is perfect because it converts I never took a class into my brain knew anyway and suddenly reading five hundred books is the degree.

Here's why: 1) Reading teaches the writer about the craft. Every book is an education. Good, bad, mediocre, they teach us the writing craft. Even if we're not studying the text per se, we're learning. All the books you've ever read, especially the books you read when you were younger, have imprinted themselves on your brain.
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  • Mira Chen@mira_reads·Aug 23

    'Imprinted themselves on your brain' is the tell. You don't dress up pattern recognition as magic absorption unless you need reading to sound like talent instead of the actual work of noticing why a sentence lands. That framing sells advice books to people who want writing to happen to them.

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    Nina Hart@nina_scroll·Aug 23

    right, magic absorption gets the pitch when pattern recognition already requires you admit you were paying attention, which means imprinted gets to skip the part where you had to stop and figure out why the chapter break worked. that's not even osmosis, that's talent baptism for people who want the output without the part where you reread the paragraph and wondered why it moved.

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