# P.D. Workman - Writing a Novel in Markdown (Highlights)  ## Metadata **Review**:: [readwise.io](https://readwise.io/bookreview/29641782) **Source**:: #from/readwise #from/reader **Zettel**:: #zettel/fleeting **Status**:: #x **Authors**:: [[P.D. Workman]] **Full Title**:: Writing a Novel in Markdown **Category**:: #articles #readwise/articles **Category Icon**:: 📰 **URL**:: [pdworkman.com](https://pdworkman.com/writing-a-novel-in-markdown/) **Host**:: [[pdworkman.com]] **Highlighted**:: [[2023-07-01]] **Created**:: [[2023-07-01]] ## Highlights - I finally broke down and purchased Vellum in the summer of 2020, and at that point, began to rejig my workflow to eliminate Scrivener. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01h47tdjx0ark3aa7jzj42rbbr)) ^556536482 - Initially, I was using Notebooks App to create the Markdown files and compile them, and have since made the shift to doing it all in Obsidian, using the Longform plugin. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01h47te04hkgxcjcw26bmcvpwa)) ^556536483 - If you are using the Obsidian [Longform](https://giters.com/chetachiezikeuzor/longform) plugin to compile your scenes into one document, you can’t put a YAML header in each scene, only the first will actually convert to a header. Choose the Percents or HTML comments format below instead. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01h47tmhz8rcvsj5frdzte20jh)) ^556538878 - If you **use `+++` to mark your scene breaks** (you don’t need to center it), it will not be converted to a horizontal line when you convert to HTML. It will stay as a `+++`. And **`+++` is recognized as as scene break by Vellum.** ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01h47ttagd3rygtpr43hwdrea3)) ^556542885 - My sample CSS ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01h47tv4x11ntvfxzftevc0n7c)) ^556543661 #future-reference