There’s a lot in your reply here, but I’m just going to address the main point for brevity.
You might have misunderstood me because of my examples—-they were really not the point.
If not a book club, fine, then why not a writing club? Anything works here, and the example is not as important as the underlying point.
With a group of people who get together every now and then to write, I would consider that meeting all the qualifications you listed: creating not consuming, plenty of opportunity for creative ideas, other professionals available to create with, longer term projects. You even mentioned this very example already, with your analogy of submitting a novel.
If you’ve lost your intellectual community or creative outlet with software, why not explore other creative outlets, ones that are truly creative and fulfilling by your standards?
You might have misunderstood me because of my examples—-they were really not the point.
If not a book club, fine, then why not a writing club? Anything works here, and the example is not as important as the underlying point.
With a group of people who get together every now and then to write, I would consider that meeting all the qualifications you listed: creating not consuming, plenty of opportunity for creative ideas, other professionals available to create with, longer term projects. You even mentioned this very example already, with your analogy of submitting a novel.
If you’ve lost your intellectual community or creative outlet with software, why not explore other creative outlets, ones that are truly creative and fulfilling by your standards?