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When writing groups become too comfortable to offer honest critique

Our writing group has been meeting for two years and somewhere along the way we stopped giving each other real feedback and started just being polite, and now I don't know if anyone is actually getting better or if we're just a social club pretending to be serious about craft.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

A creative cohort has chosen comfort over growth, losing the productive tension that makes collaboration valuable.

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