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Humans make a lot of their choices via the availability heuristic. Being exposed to bad writing can make those trains of thought more available in your mind. I would be wary of it.
When I switched schools I got into an English class with a lot of people who were bad at it. I noticed that I copied some of their mistakes.
This produces interesting results in music: musically talented people who take a mediocre form and turn out something really good from it. c.f. the fans of terrible hardcore punk in the '80s who turned into the grunge scene, Nirvana and cohorts.