: Re: Is it a good idea to improve my writing skills by "fixing" what others wrote? So, I tried out a new thing. Take this segment from The Eye of Argon: The weather beaten trail wound ahead

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To answer your question “could this practice be detrimental to developing my own style?”

I would say no, as what your doing is rewriting it in your own style. But developing your own style would probably be better served by rewriting it from scratch. So its all in your own style, rather than just editing it so only parts of it are. Or by just writing your own original scenes.

I would also say that editing the work of others can certainly improve your ability to edit your own work as its much easier to see mistakes in the work of others than in work that you have written yourself. And recognising them when others make them, makes it much easier to see when you’ve done the same thing. This is true even if the “mistakes” are only subjective.

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