Organize and Write Your Next Novel With Obsidian
INTRODUCTION
A lot has changed and developed since I first wrote Writing a novel in Markdown. I have made changes to my original post, but I think that enough has changed in my process, the apps (namely Obsidian) and in the number of people writing in Obsidian specifically that it makes more sense to write a new blog at this point than to keep trying to update the old post.
You can refer back to Writing a novel in Markdown to see some of the reasons for writing in Markdown. Besides the practical points I mentioned there like file size and corruption, I have really come to enjoy writing in Obsidian, setting it up to work efficiently for me. It is much more flexible than something like Scrivener or Word Anvil, but that also means you might have to put a bit more work into setting it up the way that works best for you. I’m not going to try to discuss all of the different ways to set it up today, but leave me a comment if you have specific questions and I’ll do a little Q&A.
I wouldn’t expect anyone else to replicate my process exactly, but hope that this might give you some guidance about what you can do with Obsidian to make it work for you. Take what works and leave the rest! Everyone’s brain is different.
