I hate to keep leaning on Roy Peter Clark for material, but what the heck, he's in the midst of a series of 50 pieces designed to help writers get better, and I'm sure he doesn't mind the link. His latest offering is Writing Tool #42: Paragraphs, and I link it here because paragraph length -- or lack thereof -- is a favorite topic of discussion among the denizens at sportsjournalists.com. He discusses, specifically, those short, one-word or one-sentence paragraphs some of you hate, and gives a couple of examples of those that work.
Wednesday, February 02, 2005
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Recently, one of our columnists was at a NBA game. His second graf was a [i]70 word sentence,[/i] complete with [i]nine commas.[/i]
Well, I once wrote an 81-word LEAD paragraph that was taped to a closet door at my old newspaper for years, so ...
A columnist where I worked once wrote a 131-word lead SENTENCE that was a graf. It was just a one-sentence graf, but still . . .
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