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Why professionalization sometimes kills creative joy

I used to write every day but then I got serious about it and started submitting places and now I write maybe once a month and hate everything I make

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The shift from intrinsic to extrinsic motivation corrupts the creative relationship.

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