Markdown monologue template: an invented speaker's speech
Bobby Huang ·
Replace the bracketed prompts with one invented person's speech, then save that talk on its own .md page. Below its title, the brass bell sample holds only the invented words of Jane Doe.
Key takeaways
- Scope of the speech keeps the page to one invented speaker's uninterrupted talk.
- Speech anatomy puts bracketed paragraph prompts below a single title.
- The invented bell speech has Jane Doe talk about a bell beside a gate.
- Paragraph gaps separate stretches of speech without introducing another person.
- A filename for the speech pairs brass-bell with monologue and the .md ending.
Scope of the speech
This monologue template contains a title followed by one invented person's uninterrupted speech. Every paragraph after the title belongs to that same speaker, from the first word to the last.
Keep narration, lines from other people, and descriptions of gestures outside this page's speech. Write the talk as paragraphs rather than points to expand later. The speech ends with the person's final words, without a separate explanation or a concealed solution.
For the plain text format behind this page, see what a .md file contains.
Speech anatomy
# [Invented page title]
[Invented speaker's words as the speech begins]
[Further words from that same invented speaker]
[Final words from that same invented speaker]
Choose a title for the invented talk, then replace each bracketed prompt with the person's words. The prompts only hold places for prose, and none of them stays once the speech is done.
In the block, every bracketed prompt is kept apart from the next by one empty line, following Markdown's paragraph gaps. Moving to the next paragraph does not change who is talking.
Invented bell speech
Both Jane Doe and her speech below are invented, down to the sample title and its final line. Everything beneath the sample title is Jane Doe's speech.
# Invented: The brass bell
I am Jane Doe, and I want this brass bell kept beside the gate. Its handle fits my palm, and I can ring it without stepping into the road.
I have tried the rope against the post, but the knot rubs my knuckles. I prefer to lift the bell myself and feel its weight settle back into my hand.
I will leave the hook at this height. I can reach it from the path, even with my gloves on.
The paragraph gaps leave Jane Doe talking throughout the sample. Nothing interrupts the speech to describe Jane Doe from outside it.
A filename for the speech
Save this invented bell speech as brass-bell-monologue.md. Here, brass-bell identifies the subject and monologue identifies the kind of writing.
That one file keeps the whole speech under its title. For lowercase letters, hyphens between words and the .md suffix, see Markdown filename habits.
Where Sashmark fits
Sashmark, a desktop program still being planned, would show Markdown files neatly and let someone edit them in place. People collecting .md output from AI agent work are who it is aimed at. Work on it continues in development, and nobody can use it today. A speech by one invented speaker, kept on its own .md page like the monologue above, belongs among the files Sashmark plans to handle.
Questions
- Does anyone else talk during the speech?
- Only the invented speaker talks in this template.
- What replaces the bracketed paragraph prompts?
- Put the invented speaker's actual words in those spaces.
- Which filename suits the bell speech?
- The sample uses brass-bell-monologue.md for its separate page.