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Similar length paragraphs
Does anyone else suffer from a subconscious tendency to write similar length paragraphs? It happens to me a lot and makes the article or story look strange if I don't do something about it.
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I don't like lengthy paragraphs. I go out of my way to break them up. If you look at them on a kindle, they look a little overwhelming!
Hmm, that's interesting. I think that having lots of similar length paragraphs looks unnatural, even though I find myself doing it naturally :-)
If you're writing a love scene for example where there's emotional intensity, you don't want short sharp sentences/paragraphs, but if you have an argument that's quite intense then very short sentences and paragraphs are required.
So I write to the requirements of the characters and the scene.