Weekly Accountability Post

For Monday, July 27, 2026

This is the weekly post where we let the world know what we’ve been working on in the past week. It only takes a minute to post. And then you’re paid back in top-notch accountability, peer support, and super-productivity.

I’ll start.

Novel

My focus this week was my alt-history second-US-civil-war novel, Nothing Civil About It. Wrote 7 chapters. Not as many as I wanted, but it’s the most chapters I’ve written in a week so far.

These horribly rough chapters are copied below. I immediately know how to rewrite them as soon as I finish them, but I forge ahead, knowing that tinkering with rough drafts is a fool’s errand until the whole book is drafted.

In general, I’m writing these chapters more carefully that I might otherwise, since I’ve already done my discovery writing, and I don’t want to work too hard when rewriting.

Started thinking about the cover and put together some comps for the designer, pictured above.

Responsibilities

I didn’t write two days this week to attend to family. I’m encouraged by this, because it means I was even more productive than I think. I didn’t write 7 chapters in 7 days. I wrote 7 chapters in 5 days.

Other Books

Worked closely with a designer on covers for my Fantastical Boyhood Adventures of Patrick Stoodle 5-book series. Two of these books are written. The rest are outlined. I plan to finish this series by the end of 2027, along with whatever other books I write in between. These covers—which I’m extremely excited about—are attached below.

Behind the Mic Course

We had two sessions of the “Behind the Mic” course this week. Having great fun working with students on their voice. Some slides from the course are below.

Skit

Had yet more fun doing Mitch McConnell on the radio. I really liked this one, so I posted it around on social media, too.

Don’t forget to let us know in the comments what you accomplished this week…