escape(window)
@escapewindow.com
he/him. Husband. Fur dad. Writer.
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Writing Mastodon: https://writing.exchange/@aki
General Mastodon: https://mas.to/@escapewindow
This new personal project of ours has grown as complex as any I've dealt with in my career.
October 9, 2025 at 5:07 PM
This new personal project of ours has grown as complex as any I've dealt with in my career.
My August in writing, wherein I face rewriting an arguably broken draft.
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#AmWriting #AmWritingFantasy #DevelopmentalEditing #WritingCommunity
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August 2025 in writing
August 2025 in writing
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September 1, 2025 at 1:05 AM
My August in writing, wherein I face rewriting an arguably broken draft.
escapewindow.com/blog/2025-08...
#AmWriting #AmWritingFantasy #DevelopmentalEditing #WritingCommunity
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#AmWriting #AmWritingFantasy #DevelopmentalEditing #WritingCommunity
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its my birthday but we have a present for YOU! POWERS vol. 1, for FREE! No strings. Thanks to @darkhorse.com & all of our digital partners for a limited time you can enjoy our Eisner award winning saga as part of our #powers25 celebration @oeming.bsky.social direct links below. your choice!
August 18, 2025 at 10:05 PM
its my birthday but we have a present for YOU! POWERS vol. 1, for FREE! No strings. Thanks to @darkhorse.com & all of our digital partners for a limited time you can enjoy our Eisner award winning saga as part of our #powers25 celebration @oeming.bsky.social direct links below. your choice!
It's a good sign when I tear up while planning a side character's arc.
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#AmWriting #AmWritingFantasy #DarkEpicFantasy #WritingCommunity
August 7, 2025 at 7:12 PM
It's a good sign when I tear up while planning a side character's arc.
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#AmWriting #AmWritingFantasy #DarkEpicFantasy #WritingCommunity
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X-Ray image of a Hammerhead shark
August 5, 2025 at 6:02 AM
X-Ray image of a Hammerhead shark
Quick July in Writing blog post, where I received my developmental edit and continued planning my draft 6.
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July 2025 in writing
July 2025 in writing
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August 1, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Quick July in Writing blog post, where I received my developmental edit and continued planning my draft 6.
escapewindow.com/blog/2025-08...
#AmWriting #AmWritingFantasy #WritingCommunity
escapewindow.com/blog/2025-08...
#AmWriting #AmWritingFantasy #WritingCommunity
Based on beta reader feedback, I've started to completely refactor my 1st POV outline again. But I'm close!
escapewindow.com/blog/2025-06...
#AmWriting #AmWritingFantasy #WritingCommunity #AmEditing
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June 2025 in writing
June 2025 in writing
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June 30, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Based on beta reader feedback, I've started to completely refactor my 1st POV outline again. But I'm close!
escapewindow.com/blog/2025-06...
#AmWriting #AmWritingFantasy #WritingCommunity #AmEditing
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#AmWriting #AmWritingFantasy #WritingCommunity #AmEditing
I blogged about finishing my #FifthDraft, submitting the manuscript for a #DevelopmentalEdit, and fleshing out future books in the series.
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#AmWriting #AmWritingFantasy #WritingCommunity
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May 2025 in writing
May 2025 in writing
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June 1, 2025 at 1:23 AM
I blogged about finishing my #FifthDraft, submitting the manuscript for a #DevelopmentalEdit, and fleshing out future books in the series.
escapewindow.com/blog/2025-05...
#AmWriting #AmWritingFantasy #WritingCommunity
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"Participants who lacked control were more likely to perceive a variety of illusory patterns, including seeing images in noise, forming illusory correlations in stock market information, perceiving conspiracies, and developing superstitions."
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18832647/
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18832647/
Lacking control increases illusory pattern perception - PubMed
We present six experiments that tested whether lacking control increases illusory pattern perception, which we define as the identification of a coherent and meaningful interrelationship among a set o...
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May 24, 2025 at 5:33 PM
"Participants who lacked control were more likely to perceive a variety of illusory patterns, including seeing images in noise, forming illusory correlations in stock market information, perceiving conspiracies, and developing superstitions."
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18832647/
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18832647/
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A wee bit of fridge poetry 🐶
May 19, 2025 at 11:49 AM
A wee bit of fridge poetry 🐶
I blogged about my April in Writing, in which I found a #DevelopmentalEditor to send my manuscript out to :)
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#AmWriting #WritingCommunity #AmWritingFantasy
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April 2025 in writing
April 2025 in writing
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April 30, 2025 at 10:07 PM
I blogged about my April in Writing, in which I found a #DevelopmentalEditor to send my manuscript out to :)
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#AmWriting #WritingCommunity #AmWritingFantasy
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github.com/prosegrinder... is a godsend, doing all the heavy lifting converting markdown chapters into editor submission-format docx.
#tooling #AmWriting #AmWritingFantasy #WritingCommunity
#tooling #AmWriting #AmWritingFantasy #WritingCommunity
GitHub - prosegrinder/pandoc-templates: An opinionated set of Pandoc templates and scripts for converting markdown to DOCX manuscripts that adhere to William Shunn's Proper Manuscript Format guideline...
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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April 6, 2025 at 4:28 PM
github.com/prosegrinder... is a godsend, doing all the heavy lifting converting markdown chapters into editor submission-format docx.
#tooling #AmWriting #AmWritingFantasy #WritingCommunity
#tooling #AmWriting #AmWritingFantasy #WritingCommunity
I blogged about my fourth draft progress, tooling, and developmental editing.
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#AmWriting #AmWritingFantasy #WritingCommunity #DevelopmentalEditing
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March 2025 in writing
March 2025 in writing
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April 1, 2025 at 12:27 AM
I blogged about my fourth draft progress, tooling, and developmental editing.
escapewindow.com/blog/2025-03...
#AmWriting #AmWritingFantasy #WritingCommunity #DevelopmentalEditing
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#AmWriting #AmWritingFantasy #WritingCommunity #DevelopmentalEditing
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Can we just not do April Fool's tomorrow? We're already dealing with enough. Reality is the joke at this point. 😩
March 31, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Can we just not do April Fool's tomorrow? We're already dealing with enough. Reality is the joke at this point. 😩
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Excellent work by new NYT headline writer Werner Herzog
March 28, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Excellent work by new NYT headline writer Werner Herzog
Nine Inch Nails - just like you imagined (Studio rehearsal)
YouTube video by Jack Harbid
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March 28, 2025 at 3:33 PM
"[M]aybe we should be thinking in terms of the quality of our reading rather than the quantity."
Reading Deliberately
"Whenever I'm editing someone else's work, I always read it more than once and am astonished by what I missed the first time around."
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"Whenever I'm editing someone else's work, I always read it more than once and am astonished by what I missed the first time around."
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#writingcommunity #writerslife #amwriting
Reading Deliberately
Whenever I’m editing someone else’s work, I always read it more than once and am astonished by what I missed the first time around.
darlingaxe.com
March 28, 2025 at 12:51 PM
"[M]aybe we should be thinking in terms of the quality of our reading rather than the quantity."
I was severely sleep deprived yesterday, so I worked on one of my websites and started converting my ad-hoc scripts into a real python tool.
(Reinforces my belief that I need less focus and headspace to work on tech than creativity.)
(Reinforces my belief that I need less focus and headspace to work on tech than creativity.)
March 4, 2025 at 4:34 PM
I was severely sleep deprived yesterday, so I worked on one of my websites and started converting my ad-hoc scripts into a real python tool.
(Reinforces my belief that I need less focus and headspace to work on tech than creativity.)
(Reinforces my belief that I need less focus and headspace to work on tech than creativity.)
Handwritten notes on pdfs take a lot of disk. I had to split my wip into chunks to avoid Github's 100mb limit.
March 3, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Handwritten notes on pdfs take a lot of disk. I had to split my wip into chunks to avoid Github's 100mb limit.
I blogged about my February in Writing, where I:
- finished my third draft,
- began reading the book in chapter order for the first time, and
- did a lot of research on developmental editing services.
escapewindow.com/blog/2025-02...
#AmWriting
#AmWritingFantasy
#AmEditing
#WritingCommunity
- finished my third draft,
- began reading the book in chapter order for the first time, and
- did a lot of research on developmental editing services.
escapewindow.com/blog/2025-02...
#AmWriting
#AmWritingFantasy
#AmEditing
#WritingCommunity
February 2025 in writing
February 2025 in writing
escapewindow.com
March 1, 2025 at 2:10 AM
I blogged about my February in Writing, where I:
- finished my third draft,
- began reading the book in chapter order for the first time, and
- did a lot of research on developmental editing services.
escapewindow.com/blog/2025-02...
#AmWriting
#AmWritingFantasy
#AmEditing
#WritingCommunity
- finished my third draft,
- began reading the book in chapter order for the first time, and
- did a lot of research on developmental editing services.
escapewindow.com/blog/2025-02...
#AmWriting
#AmWritingFantasy
#AmEditing
#WritingCommunity
Pushed hard to finish the initial 3rd draft pass yesterday, and today I'm drained. I think I'll work on technical things today: document conversion and formatting, website work.
February 24, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Pushed hard to finish the initial 3rd draft pass yesterday, and today I'm drained. I think I'll work on technical things today: document conversion and formatting, website work.
Finished the initial rough 3rd draft pass of the 2nd POV. 18 more scenes to go.
I want to fix a number of issues and polish before I declare the 3rd draft done, but if I hit a scene per day, I'll have all of March for that.
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#AmWritingFantasy
#AmEditing
#WritingCommunity
I want to fix a number of issues and polish before I declare the 3rd draft done, but if I hit a scene per day, I'll have all of March for that.
#AmWriting
#AmWritingFantasy
#AmEditing
#WritingCommunity
February 11, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Finished the initial rough 3rd draft pass of the 2nd POV. 18 more scenes to go.
I want to fix a number of issues and polish before I declare the 3rd draft done, but if I hit a scene per day, I'll have all of March for that.
#AmWriting
#AmWritingFantasy
#AmEditing
#WritingCommunity
I want to fix a number of issues and polish before I declare the 3rd draft done, but if I hit a scene per day, I'll have all of March for that.
#AmWriting
#AmWritingFantasy
#AmEditing
#WritingCommunity
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February 4, 2025 at 7:06 PM
I published my January in Writing blog post, in which I introduce you to our new puppy, Maple.
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#DogsOfBluesky #AmWriting #AmWritingFantasy #AmEditing #WritingCommunity
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February 1, 2025 at 2:32 AM
I published my January in Writing blog post, in which I introduce you to our new puppy, Maple.
escapewindow.com/blog/2025-01...
#DogsOfBluesky #AmWriting #AmWritingFantasy #AmEditing #WritingCommunity
escapewindow.com/blog/2025-01...
#DogsOfBluesky #AmWriting #AmWritingFantasy #AmEditing #WritingCommunity
Installed Arch+Hyprland on my ancient Macbook Air 11". Trying to convince myself this is saving old hardware and will be a productivity boost, not a huge distraction. We'll see.
January 30, 2025 at 1:33 AM
Installed Arch+Hyprland on my ancient Macbook Air 11". Trying to convince myself this is saving old hardware and will be a productivity boost, not a huge distraction. We'll see.