Creative writing without indentation

Write fiction where the source reads like the finished page — flat paragraphs, no indentation, scenes and emphasis in the lightest possible markup. The file below is complete and builds green.

The whole story

@h2 One · The Harbour h2@

The rain had not stopped for three days.

Mara pressed her palm to the cold glass and counted the boats that were
no longer there. _One. Two._ The third had been her father's.

#scenebreak: ✦ ✦ ✦ !!

@scenebreak

"You can't stay," the harbourmaster said.

She said nothing. There was *nothing*, she had learned, that saying could fix.

@hr hr@

And then the tide turned.

What each piece does

• Paragraphs. Just type them, a blank line between. No leading spaces, no wrapping node — each block becomes its own paragraph.
• Emphasis. One. Two. becomes italics; nothing becomes bold. The marks wrap a run of text and nothing else.
• A scene heading. h2 opens the chapter.
• A scene break. Define an ornament once — #scenebreak: ✦ ✦ ✦ !! — and drop it in as a bare @scenebreak. For a plain rule, @hr hr@ is core vocabulary.

Build

wit build story.wit --fragment

Or -o story.pdf for print. Verified: each block is its own paragraph; One. Two. renders as italics and nothingas bold; @scenebreak prints the ornament; @hr hr@ renders a horizontal rule. The apostrophe in father's passes through correctly.

Pitfalls

• There is no break node. Use @hr hr@ or a definition of your own for a divider — break is not core vocabulary.
• Nest emphasis outer-italic. _*x*_ leaves the inner * literal; write *_x_* to get bold italics.

Variations

Name an epigraph as a reusable value definition and recall it with a bare reference; give a scene heading a subtitle with an interpuncted h2title, as above.

See also

covers the token-wrap rule in full; An interactive script adds data and logic to a scene.