I have been using Scrivener to capture all my writing and, when ready, paste the plain text into Hemingway to “deflower” the language a bit… my next step has always been to paste the plain text into Wordpress and do any final formatting there.
Noting that Ghost handles markdown, does this mean that I can now do all my formatting in Scrivener, export an .md file into Hemingway and then export again an .md file for pasting into Ghost? With just a cursory check before publishing?
After a bit of messing around, I think the process is this:
write in Scrivener using markdown
export a markdown file
import that file into Hemingway
make adjustments
export markdown file
open that file in BBEdit, copy and paste content into Ghost, check and publish
also paste content into Scrivener after saving the pre-Hemingway version as a snapshot
End result is that I do ALL my work in Scrivener / Hemingway and therefore have a full record of all changes, draft status, etc. there. Crucially, the formatting saved in Scrivener is a direct reflection of the published Ghost post.