7How an Accountability Partner Helped Me Finish My Book

Shannon Borg

DOI: 10.4324/9781003351344-7

My longtime poet friend Kevin and I met for lunch periodically, to catch up, chat about art (my world), gossip about brewers (his world), talk about books (our shared passion) and, more often than not, whine about how we weren’t writing enough or finishing the poems, books, or projects we wanted to complete.

He was always talking about wanting to simply create a daily writing practice so he could start writing regularly again. And I was always talking about my half-baked book idea: 26 Kitchens, a food memoir about every kitchen I’d ever lived in. The problem was, although I’d written some of the “kitchens,” I’d let so many other things get in ...

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