My plain text workflow as a fiction writer.

Like this post? Donate to me so I can keep writing. 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? Some might wonder, why even use plain text when I could just use Microsoft Word, a fully accessible paid word processor that works reasonably well for screen readers? In a few words, portability and flexibility and longevity. With a Microsoft Word file, if someone doesn’t have Word installed on their computer, this means they wouldn’t be able to open and or read my file. If I go to a public computer, for example, that computer might have an older version of Word that would mess up my formatting. If everything is in plain text, I can quite literally work anywhere, and across operating systems, even mobile operating systems.…