Paragraph and Line Lengths--How They Affect Your Story's Pacing
I never paid much attention to paragraph or sentence lengths. I just wrote, felt satisfied if I got the story down. Then, in the late eighties, I got a job as a editor at a publishing company in the Midwest.
As an editor, I noticed that I had a visual reaction to a person's writing: how it looked on the page, how dense or light. How much white spac…