{"id":9579,"date":"2025-07-28T10:33:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T14:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maryrajotte.com\/blog\/?p=9579"},"modified":"2025-07-28T10:33:01","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T14:33:01","slug":"the-weekly-brew-dreadcon-approaches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maryrajotte.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/28\/the-weekly-brew-dreadcon-approaches\/","title":{"rendered":"THE WEEKLY BREW: DreadCon Approaches"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Not much writing progress last week. I did manage to get a few posts done, but mostly I spent it trying to wrangle a project in Affinity Publisher. I had a chapbook all laid out, but realized I was making it more difficult than it needed to be. Then when I went to shift some page designs, I think I broke everything. 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