Whatever writing lights that candle at the top of your spine -- a phrase, a sentence, a sequence of any size -- is what you're apt to try and emulate, even subconsciously (as it sinks down into your non-verbal understanding of narrative)--
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--and *submitting* to good narrative models is what being good at writing is.
You can always enjoy them as a reader, but if you forever stop yourself from working with them, because you undervalue yourself, or inversely, you think you should go "beyond" them now that you've grokked them, you lose.
The "going beyond" will happen on its own, your unconscious soup will always make these models resurface ever-so-slightly different than what they were when they sank down.
As to the undervaluing yourself part... this is, I believe, the domain of the conscious mind in writing.
In the other thread, I added how seeing flaws -- a comparatively more "conscious" activity can develop your basic troubleshooting skills, but those are rather unrefined. I said this because the refined part of your writing mind is the unconscious.
The conscious mind is most useful when it controls the circumstances surrounding your writing. What you think of yourself, sitting down to work, is a crucial circumstance that your conscious mind can pay attention to in good and bad ways. It can remind you that you've done it before, so it's okay.
It can deal with basic writing flubs, sometimes purposely rejecting words, asking your unconscious for another batch.
But it can also make you feel like shit because the last couple of paragraphs lead nowhere, instead of focusing on the couple of sentences that will actually drive your story forward
Those two sentences that will save your story, the real frog in the artificial pond, are what only the unconscious and the models it's absorbed can find for you, if you turn off that stupid self-defeating internal monologue post-rationalizing you out of your chance to do it.
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You can always enjoy them as a reader, but if you forever stop yourself from working with them, because you undervalue yourself, or inversely, you think you should go "beyond" them now that you've grokked them, you lose.
As to the undervaluing yourself part... this is, I believe, the domain of the conscious mind in writing.
But it can also make you feel like shit because the last couple of paragraphs lead nowhere, instead of focusing on the couple of sentences that will actually drive your story forward