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Correct paragraph usage
Hi,
I'm writing about three different characters. When I'm making a point and comparing the situation among the three characters, can I start a new paragraph once it starts getting too long. Also, if I start a new paragraph as I change to discussing another one of the characters, am I then compelled to do the same thing all the time? If I don't start a new paragraph occasionally some paragraphs will be huge, if I have to start a new paragraph every time I change characters some will be too small. Can I kind of 'do whatever I want', or is there a hard and fast rule? Thanks,
-WJ
I'm writing about three different characters. When I'm making a point and comparing the situation among the three characters, can I start a new paragraph once it starts getting too long. Also, if I start a new paragraph as I change to discussing another one of the characters, am I then compelled to do the same thing all the time? If I don't start a new paragraph occasionally some paragraphs will be huge, if I have to start a new paragraph every time I change characters some will be too small. Can I kind of 'do whatever I want', or is there a hard and fast rule? Thanks,
-WJ
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[nq:1]Hi, I'm writing about three different characters. When I'm making a point and comparing the situation among the three characters, ... too small.
- [nq:1]Hi, I'm writing about three different characters.
- When I'm making a point and comparing the situation among the three characters, ...
- too small.
- Can I kind of 'do whatever I want', or is there a hard and fast rule?
- Thanks, -WJ[/nq] Paragraphs can run from mammoth things that go on and on (in the hands of a true master, even ignoring chapter breaks to continue majestically, beyond the book's covers, to Alpha Centauri) to short sharp shocks.
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[nq:1]Hi, I'm writing about three different characters. When I'm making a point and comparing the situation among the three characters, ... too small. Can I kind of 'do whatever I want', or is there a hard and fast rule? Thanks, -WJ[/nq]
Paragraphs can run from mammoth things that go on and on (in the hands of a true master, even ignoring chapter breaks to continue majestically, beyond the boo
Paragraphs can run from mammoth things that go on and on (in the hands of a true master, even ignoring chapter breaks to continue majestically, beyond the boo
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A paragraph should constitute a unit within a scene. That unit could be on the background of a character, or on what he thinks of what he sees, with another unit, another paragraph, on what a second character is or sees. Or, if the explications are short, one sentence each, the paragraph could contain the backgrounds or attitudes of several characters.
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