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Originally Posted by Steven Lyle Jordan
Not for me: I learned from reading everyone else's work while honing my own. If I was going to pick particular writers, I might go with Arthur C. Clarke and Lester Dent, who taught me two extremes of writing that I try to meet in the middle.
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That's almost exactly what Damon Knight says in his introduction. The way he and his contemporaries learned was from reading other authors and studying how they did it.