Anecdote template in Markdown: a small invented incident

Scope of this anecdote

You use this anecdote template for a finished third-person account of a small invented incident. You keep that account in its own .md file, using ordinary prose paragraphs beneath a title. You describe successive actions without spoken words, beginning with the incident's opening and continuing to its plain end.

You write about one small occurrence within that .md file. You put an invented description above Incident, beneath the title and apart from the account's paragraphs. You write the finished paragraphs beneath Incident, using Jane Doe's name or she for the person in this sample.

You can examine Markdown symbols within plain text in a .md file's text and marks.

Anatomy of this template

You copy the Markdown anecdote template here, substituting finished wording for the instructions. You write a title and an invented description above Incident, then put the account into the paragraph spaces beneath that heading.

# Write a brief title naming the invented incident

Write a sentence identifying the account as invented.

## Incident

Write a paragraph describing where the incident begins, who is there and what that person is doing.

Write a paragraph describing the next actions through the end of the small incident.

You name the small incident beside the # mark in the title placeholder. You keep that wording brief, leaving the actions for the prose beneath Incident.

You identify the account as invented in the description placeholder. You write the description alone on its line, after the title and before Incident, apart from the account's paragraphs.

You retain one ## heading in this template, Incident, excluding the # title line from that heading count. You replace the two paragraph placeholders beneath Incident with prose about the beginning and the following actions through the end.

You can examine paragraph gaps beside single line breaks in Markdown paragraph spacing, retaining this template's blank line between its prose placeholders.

Jane Doe's cap incident

Jane Doe is an adult. Jane Doe composed an invented account for this sample; Jane Doe and the cap incident are invented.

# Cap beside a stone rim

An invented account by Jane Doe of a small incident with a cap.

## Incident

Jane Doe set her cap on a low stone rim and rested her hands beside it. A breeze lifted the brim and tipped the cap onto its crown.

She picked up the cap by its brim, turned it upright, and put it back on the stone. She rested a hand across the crown.

Jane Doe describes placing the cap and the breeze tipping it over in the opening paragraph. Jane Doe describes picking up the cap, turning it upright, putting it back, and resting a hand on it in the second paragraph.

Filename for this anecdote

You could choose cap-anecdote.md for the sample, naming the cap alongside the prose type. You retain the title, invented description, and cap account inside that single file. You can consult Markdown filename choices about hyphens and .md as an ending.

Where Sashmark fits

Sashmark is the planned name of a Markdown viewing and editing tool for desktop computers. It is aimed at people who receive .md pages written by AI agents. That tool is being built at this time and has not come out. A folder of such .md pages is one kind of file group planned for Sashmark.

See the planned features, the help pages and the roadmap for where each part stands.

sashmark.com.