First of all, I’m going to apologise for the post-Christmas techy rant.
I do most of my writing in Markdown; and as I may have mentioned before, I’m not altogether happy about it.
Don’t get me wrong; it’s a lot better than trying to craft a novel in Word, which is a plethora of distractions and well-intentioneed overkill. There are lots of really good tools, at wildly varying price points, that make working with Markdown a doddle … mostly. The important thing, however, is that a Markdown file can be converted to just about any other file format, so it’s the idea place to keep the source of your novel.
The trouble is that the publishing industry is built around the Word document format, which is why, I guess, most authors still churn out their books in Word.
But what if we could start again? What if a comet hit the planet, wiped out civilisation and we all had to crawl out of the ashes and rebuild? What would the new universal document format look like? 1)I’m willing to admit that my priorities may come off as a little skewed.
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