New Sightless Scribbles post! My plain text workflow as a fiction writer.
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Ever since discovering that I could write my novels in plain text and or Markdown, and also that I could write my fiction podcast scripts in a plain text syntax called Fountain, I began wondering what other plain text avenues I could explore, and if I could adapt my workflow around plain text.
Why use plain text?
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Robert Kingett
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