{"id":9425,"date":"2025-06-16T12:27:50","date_gmt":"2025-06-16T16:27:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maryrajotte.com\/blog\/?p=9425"},"modified":"2025-06-16T12:27:51","modified_gmt":"2025-06-16T16:27:51","slug":"the-weekly-brew-june-16-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maryrajotte.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/16\/the-weekly-brew-june-16-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"THE WEEKLY  BREW: June 16, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I made good progress on a few things last week in the Writing Nook.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019m up to <strong>Chapter 9<\/strong> in the Zero Draft of the <strong>folk horror novella<\/strong>, which is great! The only problem\u2026I felt a few of my chapters were either too repetitive or didn\u2019t have enough happening, so I had to stop and do more <strong>brainstorming<\/strong>. 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