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May 10, 2022 50 mins

An introduction to your Here to Save You hosts Tessa Fontaine and Annie Hartnett. We share the details of the "writing accountability contract" we signed in 2018-- which is how we were able to write second books and also how we became friends.

This contract we signed came from this Aimee Bender essay: Why the Best Way to Get Creative Is to Make Some Rules

Books mentioned: 
Deep Work by Cal Newport 
I'll Show Myself Out by Jessi Klein 
Unlikely Animals by Annie Hartnett 
Bewilderment by Richard Powers 

Spoiler: You will meet our third co-host Ellen O'Connell Whittet in episode 4! 

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