also see https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/41271/all-in-one-engine-for-texshop?noredirect=1&lq=1 for latexmk explanation

Vimtex the perfect tool for working with tex and Vim and Zathura. In the past I have used first vim-latex for compiling my LaTeX projects. And later on I discoverd vim-latexsuite, which amazed me because of forward searching and backward searching which were totally new to me.

general writing tips, vimrcs for writers and so on; from the NaNoWriMo:

https://www.naperwrimo.org/wiki/index.php?title=Vim_for_Writers

an example academic workflow for a book/paper/dissertation including bibtex references, notes, ... using Pandoc:

http://wcm1.web.rice.edu/plain-text-citations.html

more general thoughts about plaintext academia:

http://wcaleb.org/blog/my-academic-book-in-plain-text

a discussion on vim for novel writing:

https://old.reddit.com/r/vim/comments/byuuu3/vim_for_novel_writing/

and some latex templates:

https://writingjourney.org/blog/2017/08/16/using-latex-for-typesetting-short-story-anthologies-and-novels/