: Re: Very simple markup language for writing fiction I'm using a plain text editor (Vim) to write a fiction piece (chapter book), and I'm wondering what markup languages others use for such a task?

I'm quite late to this question, but was searching for exactly the same thing. I discovered PML.

Unfortunately it's still under development and only have a windows client. But the syntax and structure is exactly what I was looking for in a markup language. I'm tempted to write my own parser/renderer for linux/macos, since the language looks promising to me.

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I use Vim. I wanted a structured markup language that isn't too verbose (xml, html) and didn't have strange markup edge cases like reStrcturedText or Markdown (the need to do weird escapes and workarounds for some edge cases).

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: Re: Very simple markup language for writing fiction I'm using a plain text editor (Vim) to write a fiction piece (chapter book), and I'm wondering what markup languages others use for such a task?

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: Doubt about the double action of the concept of plot in fiction writing In the first discussion of the concept of "plot" given by [1] I, maybe, understood two different, but complementary, concepts

: Doubt about the concept of "true (or complex) character" Following the answer of @Cyn and my comment (on Doubt about a particular point of view on how to do character creation ): I would like

: I want to make two of my characters fall in love My story is about two gang leaders. The female is the leader of the largest gang in the country. The guy is the leader of the 2nd-largest.

: Usually "and" is indeed dispensable and the fact that you wrote it is a clue to check if it is. Using that sentence as an example, I can eliminate "and" with a semicolon,

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