Our book club turned into a creative writing group but now we're all sharing work and we've developed these unspoken hierarchies based on who gets the most praise, and it's poisoning the feedback we give each other. We can all feel it happening but we don't know how to address it without making it worse.
More people experience this than they realize.
A peer group discovers that sharing vulnerable creative work inevitably creates status dynamics that threaten the equality they want to maintain.
“Where Are You with The examined creative life — Murasaki's synthesis?”
If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.