My closest friend and I have been creative accountability partners for three years and lately our check-ins feel more like confession than collaboration. We're both going through difficult periods in our work and instead of supporting each other we're just comparing our struggles and making each other feel worse.
More people experience this than they realize.
Mutual creative struggles have transformed supportive partnership into comparative suffering that diminishes both participants' creative confidence.
“Where Are You with The examined creative life?”
If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.