Whole-heartedly BEGGING writers to unlearn everything schools taught you about how long a paragraph is. If theres a new subject, INCLUDING ACTIONS, theres a new paragraph. A paragraph can be a single word too btw stop making things unreadable
Ok So I’m getting more notes than I thought quicker than I expected! So I’m gonna elaborate bc I want to.
I get it, when you’re someone who writes a lot and talks a lot, it’s hard to keep things readable, but it’s not as much about cutting out the fat(that can be a problem) so much as a formatting issue.
You are also actively NERFING yourself by not formatting it correctly, it can make impactful scenes feel so, so much better. Compare this,
To THIS.
Easier to read, and hits harder.
No more over-saturated paragraphs. Space things out.
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Here’s a big thing – varying your paragraph lengths and breaking up long flows into choppier sentence structures is better for the reader, grammar rules be damned. A few pages of dense text aren’t going to sink a story, and neither is a few pages of only dialogue, but an entire book that goes back and forth like that will be a headache to read.
When you’re revising, it’s important to step back and look at all aspects of page flow – from making sure your characters are doing things as well as speaking to trimming down long chunks of description, or considering moving it elsewhere.
This is not easy at first! But the more you try to work it in while drafting, the more natural it’ll become to do without thinking about it.
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