Hi Dcljr, it appears that you are facing problems with formatting in Flow. Did you know that Flow works in two modes: Visual Editor mode, and normal Wikitext mode. You can switch between the two by clicking on the double box brackets [[]] symbol in the bottom right corner.
Since you are more comfortable with Wikitext, you can remain in the Wikitext mode and in the end, you can switch to Visual editor mode to preview your text before submitting. Let me know if theres anything else about Flow that I may be able to help you with.