How to Work With an Accountability Partner
And why you should give it a try.
Last Saturday a friend and I spent a couple of hours on a Zoom call. I’m in Pennsylvania and she’s in Ohio, so the video call made it almost like we were hanging out together for real.
Our goal was simple. We wanted to make a plan to support each other over the next week.
We’re both writers. We’ve both been feeling a little unmotivated lately.
Or, maybe unmotivated isn’t the right word. She and I are both highly motivated people, when you come right down to it. But we haven’t been doing what we want to with our writing.
We’re in different places in our careers. She’s a freelancer with several years of experience, but who is just getting to where she can make a living at it. I’m a novelist and a teacher and a blogger and I’ve been earning a living as a writer since 2015.
But we’re a good match when it comes to accountability because our drive matches up. We both write full time. We have the same ambition — to be full-time working writers — and we’re both willing to put in the work to get there. And (this is important) we both struggle with things like time management, distraction, and self-doubt.
