{"id":9457,"date":"2025-06-23T12:34:40","date_gmt":"2025-06-23T16:34:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maryrajotte.com\/blog\/?p=9457"},"modified":"2025-06-24T11:40:26","modified_gmt":"2025-06-24T15:40:26","slug":"the-weekly-brew-june-23-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maryrajotte.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/23\/the-weekly-brew-june-23-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"THE WEEKLY BREW: June 23, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Wow! I did really well on the Zero Draft of the folk horror novella last week! I finished <strong>8 chapters<\/strong>, added a few<strong> new characters<\/strong>, introduced some new<strong> back story<\/strong> for my main character\u2026and added to my <strong>research list<\/strong>. Mostly the research involves setting and daily life for the time period <strong>(late 1600s<\/strong>). I\u2019m still debating the setting &#8211; originally I was going to set it in a rural village in Scotland. 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