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My August in writing, wherein I face rewriting an arguably broken draft.
https://escapewindow.com/blog/2025-08-31-august-in-writing/
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It's a good sign when I tear up while planning a side character's arc.
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Quick July in Writing blog post, where I received my developmental edit and continued planning my draft 6.
Based on beta reader feedback, I've started to completely refactor my 1st POV outline again. But I'm close!
I can adjust the various numbers in the dictionaries if the output looks off.
I probably could have done this with a gantt chart or Excel or similar, but this was my comfort zone.
I was *seriously* dragging my feet on generating a timeline of events. Finally realized I didn't want to do it the manual, error-prone way.
I wrote a helper script that takes two dictionaries: characters and their ages at a certain date, and events and their relative years from that date. The script outputs a markdown table with everyone's ages at the time of each event, so I can verify things look right. #tooling
I blogged about finishing my #FifthDraft, submitting the manuscript for a #DevelopmentalEdit, and fleshing out future books in the series.
Heads up, self-pub authors here as well: Amazon is lowering the royalty rates of paperbacks and hardcovers next month. You'll also have to check your books so that the royalty doesn't drop to 0. Price hikes ahead.
The link is to a Bluesky post where the impact of the change is explained by one author.
https://bsky.app/profile/sharkiatwrites.bsky.social/post/3lp4uldp25s2h
In June, Amazon is lowering royalties for print books under $9.99 from 60% to 50%. But what does that mean for authors and readers? Let's take look at the numbers. Apologies, this is going to get a bit mathy (check the ALT text if you want even more numbers). 🧵
I blogged about my April in Writing, in which I found a #DevelopmentalEditor to send my manuscript out to :)
https://github.com/prosegrinder/pandoc-templates is a godsend, doing all the heavy lifting converting markdown chapters into editor submission-format docx.
An opinionated set of Pandoc templates and scripts for converting markdown to DOCX manuscripts that adhere to William Shunn's Proper Manuscript Format guidelines using Pandoc. - prosegrinder/pa...
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