I agree to an extent. However, many of us learn grammar formally, and then use it on the fly. I think you can approach MRUs the same way - I did. (Ask me in a couple of years and I'll tell you whether it worked for me.)
This is a lot like martial arts: if you think about the techniques while in the thick of it, they tend not to work. However, you still have to learn the techniques to internalise them.
Unlike the martial arts, you can pick up many of the technical aspects of fiction just by reading fiction. However, even if you write "intuatively", you still have a theory of writing, it's just that you've not articulated it.
The danger of such an approach - I think - is that you may well write the same novel again and again because it "feels right", without questioning your assumptions. (Of course, the danger of an analytical approach is that you may write mechanically without verve).
This is a lot like martial arts: if you think about the techniques while in the thick of it, they tend not to work. However, you still have to learn the techniques to internalise them.
Unlike the martial arts, you can pick up many of the technical aspects of fiction just by reading fiction. However, even if you write "intuatively", you still have a theory of writing, it's just that you've not articulated it.
The danger of such an approach - I think - is that you may well write the same novel again and again because it "feels right", without questioning your assumptions. (Of course, the danger of an analytical approach is that you may write mechanically without verve).