This week we're sharing our goals for the new year and our process for creating tactile vision boards. We'll get a little woo-woo and share our experiences with manifesting and debating a literary hot take.

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Emma's goals for 2026:

• Query The Wedding Photographer
• Write first draft of Sundaes are for Lovers
• Write first draft of "Icon"
• Do a quarterly visual art project
• Cook her way through a cookbook

Elsie's goals for 2026:

• Query The Surrealist (hoping to get a fiction agent and then sell the book)
• Complete "Project Lighthouse"
• Launch my weekly newsletter: The Lost Arts - sign up at elsielarson.com
• Be active on social media (have a professional relationship with it)
• A lot of small goals like create mini routines, take photos every day, get nails done, read 52 books and go on walks

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