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[Angrboda]

I suspect that actual practice writing fiction would have more of an effect on my skill than reading would. That writers advise reading does not necessarily mean that they are correct on that score. I'm sure reading has a positive impact, but whether it's as core as practice or native talent is, of that I'm not so sure. I rather suspect that writers opining on what made or broke their writing are as knowledgeable as anybody else is on the subject, which is to say, "not much."