How the Corporate Approach Made Creators Lazy — and Killed Mainstream Creativity

Tom Meitner
10 min readFeb 25, 2022

“Write a sex scene every 3 chapters,” they told me. Huh?

There is intense debate on the internet these days about the quality of storytelling and media that is available, especially in the mainstream.

On the one hand, you have the generational argument: that everybody grows up thinking their…

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Tom Meitner

Professional copywriter for 15+ years. I'll help you get, serve, and keep clients. Father. Husband. Lover of food, laughter, and ’90s TV commercials.