Leah Schaefer

I would sit there in our Zoom meetings and think I should, quote unquote, should be able to do this alone.

But there is some kind of like there's some magic in it.

Like it's I highly recommend it.

She goes to his hill country home and they sort of trade blood for a safe place for a little while.

I've rewritten this three times, I think maybe three and a half.

And I wrote two more books, terrible books, but each better than the last.

I definitely don't think I would have gotten the work done this last year if I hadn't had Jamie as my buddy and met every week.

I was on TikTok and just some random dude was like, does anybody want to be accountability buddies with me?

And I was like, I don't even know what that is, but sure, I'll try it.

And he's an author too.

And I just, I said yes.

And then we met, I think that same week on Zoom.

And I don't think either of us knew exactly what it was going to look like, but we have been meeting every week, every Friday at nine o'clock for over a year now.

And then we can kind of chit-chat afterwards about what we're doing in our lives.

I have a sister.

She's a writer, too.

And I don't think we could do it because we talk too much, you know, about other things.

So I do think one of the pitfalls is trying to have an accountability buddy for all of your goals.

I think narrow it down to, you know, whatever this one thing you're meeting about is.

When we meet on Friday, I am supposed to have gone through my first 10 chapters in my novel for revisions and recorded five TikToks.