soak it up
Bob Dylan hadn't set out to write songs. He played folk songs written by others until new songs just came out of him.
Tolkein absorbed epic poems and tales and wrote his own version of them.
Soak up the real, pure water--movies and stories themselves. Never mind "the rules"--theories applied to existing art but not used to create that art.
Soak it up until your own story bursts out.
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