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How to maintain supportive group accountability when written progress sharing becomes competitive

Our writing group committed to documenting our individual progress in shared weekly check-ins but the more successful writers keep posting detailed updates while those of us struggling write less and less. What was supposed to be mutual accountability through written reflection has become a showcase that makes some of us want to disappear.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Writers discover that externalizing progress through shared documentation can unintentionally create hierarchies that undermine collective support.

Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Writing and the externalization of memory?”

If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.