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When creative collaboration starts erasing individual voices

My writing partner and I have been working together for two years and we've developed this incredible shorthand, but lately every piece we create feels like it could have been written by either one of us and I can't tell if we're finding our shared voice or if we're both disappearing into something safe and mediocre.

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Collaborative intimacy threatens the very distinctiveness that made the partnership valuable.

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