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When market demands conflict with natural creative voice

My literary agent wants me to write commercial fiction to build my platform but every time I try it feels fake and I hate everything I produce.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The pressure to adapt creative voice to market demands can alienate us from the very authenticity that drives our work.

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