My songwriting partner and I have very different tolerances for creative vulnerability - they're willing to put raw, unfinished emotions directly into lyrics and I need to craft and shape feelings before I can share them - and our songs are starting to feel like compromises between two approaches that don't actually blend.
More people experience this than they realize.
Your individual ways of transforming experience into art are fundamentally incompatible, creating work that satisfies neither vision.
“Where Are You with Japanese aesthetics — wabi-sabi mono no aware yugen?”
If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.