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Why are lots of blog posts written like this nowadays—like an email, where every sentence is a new paragraph?
by iamthirsty 7y ago
Why are lots of blog posts written like this nowadays—like an email, where every sentence is a new paragraph?
- ghaff 7y agoGeneral trend towards what's considered easier casual readability. Shorter sentences. Shorter paragraphs. More and shorter posts. Smaller words. At one online publication I write for sometimes, the tool I use to enter my articles is always whining at me to drop the reading level down. I don't usually go as far as single sentence paragraphs but I've generally learned to shift most of what I write towards easier consumption.
- kartan 7y ago> where every sentence is a new paragraph? Probably because of blog software. Word Press does this by default. https://wordpress.org/support/article/wordpress-editor/ https://wordpress.org/support/article/wordpress-editor/
- paulcole 7y agoWordpress most definitely does not do this by default. Typing a period, a space, and then a capital letter to begin the next Steven ever does not start a new paragraph. You can even see in the screenshots on the link you provided that new sentences do not become new paragraphs.
- kd5bjo 7y agoIf 80% of your readers are only going to pay attention to the pull quotes and tl;dr’s, why go to the trouble of writing anything else?