Learning to write fiction is not like learning pottery, or horse riding.
These are crafts and skills. They may occasionally reach the level of art, but you can make a nice ceramic pot and ride a horse perfectly decently after not too long practising without drawing on an underlying pool of creativity.
Writing fiction is different.
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