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When creative groups become competitive instead of collaborative

My writing group has been meeting for a year and we're all getting better as writers, but I've noticed we've started competing with each other in subtle ways instead of really helping each other grow, and the supportive energy that made us all brave enough to share our work is disappearing.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The vulnerability required for artistic growth has been compromised by unconscious competition, transforming a space of mutual support into one of subtle rivalry.

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