#i think short paragraphs are underutilized in academic settings and long paragraphs are overutilized in fiction

[governmentintelligence]

i'm going to throw out there too that there are different paragraph lengths for different situations. academic essays? usually have double line spacing. so a paragraph could easily take up half a page if it has like, 5 thick sentences. same with research papers or nonfiction books. sometimes there's a lot that fits in there and your line spacing is bigger and it makes sense to have a long paragraph.

you also often have a lot to get through in one paragraph in those kinds of works and you want to keep the same "idea" in one paragraph, so the reader knows everything you're saying about that "idea" is connected. if you're writing an essay on like, a book, and you want to make a point about one line in the book, then you might want to keep that all to one paragraph so the act of introducing the line, the analysis on the line, and the looping into your general essay topic are all in the same place.

yeah, long paragraphs are hard to read, but they have a purpose. same as long sentences. it's about using grammatical variety to maintain your readers attention.

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