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Scenario

How to balance friendship and honest creative feedback

My creative writing group has been meeting weekly for two years and we've become close friends, but I'm starting to feel like we're more supportive than honest with each other's work. Every critique session feels polite and encouraging but not particularly useful for actually improving our writing.

More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

A creative community discovers that emotional safety and rigorous artistic development may require different kinds of relationships.

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Mura
Mura works with people navigating exactly this kind of situation.
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Worth thinking about

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Peri

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