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When creative friendships undermine honest artistic feedback

Our writing group has been meeting for two years and we've gotten too comfortable—nobody gives real feedback anymore because we're all friends now. The work isn't getting better and we're all pretending not to notice that we've stopped pushing each other.

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The desire to preserve harmony within a creative community gradually erodes the very honesty that makes collaboration valuable.

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