{"id":820,"date":"2025-11-25T20:07:02","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T20:07:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jessicabrawner.com\/?p=820"},"modified":"2025-11-25T23:14:33","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T23:14:33","slug":"happy-thanksgiving-are-you-ready-for-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jessicabrawner.com\/?p=820","title":{"rendered":"Happy Thanksgiving! Are you ready for 2026?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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It’s been a couple of months since I last posted – life has been quite busy as we count down to the end of the year. I can’t believe we only have four and a half weeks left in 2025!!!<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
We are heading in to Thanksgiving this week, so I wish you all safe travels, comforting celebrations and a dearth of unpleasant drama.\u00a0
Here’s a photo from Steven’s and my\u00a0first Thanksgiving together in California in\u00a02015!<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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I am still diligently working on the first draft of the next book – Just hit 60,000 words, and I anticipate that I have about 20,000 to go. Maybe less. Sometimes when you get to really exciting chapters and scenes the writing just goes faster. I still want to finish the first draft by the end of the year so that you all can see it mid 2026.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The new year is coming, and I’d like to try some\u00a0different ways of communicating\u00a0for 2026.\u00a0\u00a0Patreon is a good platform, particularly for livestream Q&A and video posts. If I set up a page over there, and did a livestream or Q&A once a month or so, would anyone be interested in watching it? Do you prefer video format or newsletters, or do you find value in both?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let me know what you think! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wishing you a wonderful holiday season free of stress and full of joy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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