EPISODE SHOW NOTES

Happy New Year! With a new year comes new goals, of course. This week, we discuss accomplishments and goals for our writing in 2026.

In this episode, we cover:

• Our writing accomplishments in 2025
• Rachel's 2026 writing goals
• Ari's 2026 writing goals

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CREDITS

Hosts

Ari Meghlen & Rachel Poli

Music

Intro & Outro – “Inspired” composed and produced by Kevin MacLeod of https://incompetech.com/ | Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0