On December 29th (2022), I took a great class given by Vanessa Martir entitled, Master Manifesting: Setting Writing Intentions for 2023. It was a great class, chock full of inspiration and really helped me craft S.M.A.R.T. writing goals for the coming year. One of the exercises she led us through was to visualize our personal writing metaphor. At first, I was a little skeptical. What exactly was this supposed to help me do? But as the seconds ticked by and my classmates
