One habit I picked up early with writing was to use hard line breaks at 80 chars. IMO, this makes it a lot easier to work with. You always know where your line

One habit I picked up early with writing was to use hard line breaks at 80 chars. IMO, this makes it a lot easier to work with. You always know where your line ends because it matches up with the break. You can even configure Vim to input the breaks for you so you don't need to worry about micro-managing them as you reword and edit sentences.