Our band used to write songs by jamming until something emerged, but now we each come in with demos on our phones and we're basically just negotiating whose turn it is to have their vision realized, and the magic feels completely gone.
More people experience this than they realize.
Individual creative development can inadvertently destroy the emergent processes that originally bonded collaborators.
“Where Are You with Craft traditions across cultures — the shokunin?”
If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.