I've yet to try this. I read a while back that Benjamin Franklin learned to write by picking prose he thought was good and rewriting it in his own words. He did

I've yet to try this. I read a while back that Benjamin Franklin learned to write by picking prose he thought was good and rewriting it in his own words. He did that over and over until he felt he was good enough. Eventually he founded his own newspaper and ultimately retired very wealthy in his forties.