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CountVanBadger

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Why do so many people do the one-sentence-paragraph thing? Are they trying to make their sub-1000 word chapters look longer than they actually are? It adds nothing to a story and is so freaking annoying to read. Stop it.
 

Macha

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Why do so many people do the one-sentence-paragraph thing? Are they trying to make their sub-1000 word chapters look longer than they actually are? It adds nothing to a story and is so freaking annoying to read. Stop it.
Most of them are Ao3 or FFN graduates. Fanfiction writers usually don't need to introduce the characters or settings because it's already established by the fandom and the habit stuck even when writing original fictions.
 

Anonjohn20

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Why do so many people do the one-sentence-paragraph thing?
Some of them are writing their stories on their phones; some people are trying to mirror a character’s psychological state. For example, in moments of shock or urgency, short, abrupt sentences reflect a racing heartbeat or fragmented thoughts; some people are trying to make sure the new generation that has low attention span doesn't miss some of the sentences because the paragraph was too long so they skipped half of it; some people are translating Asian works where it's very common, etc.

It's highly subjective whether or not someone likes it, but it's not grammatically incorrect, so, for the most part, it's here to stay.

Most of them are Ao3 or FFN graduates.
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CountVanBadger

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Some of them are writing their stories on their phones
That's not an excuse. I write my story on my phone, and I know not to try and pass off one sentence as an entire paragraph.
some people are trying to mirror a character’s psychological state.
Using it for every single sentence is like ending every sentence in your book with an exclamation point. It doesn't make your book more exciting, it just makes it obnoxious to read.
it's not grammatically incorrect
It wouldn't be grammatically incorrect to write the whole story in all caps, either, but that doesn't mean anyone would want to read it.
I circumvent this problem by doing two sentences per paragraph
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I read that ppl dont like many paragraphs in a row so as to not to exhaust mobile readers one should be generous with the enter key and let big chunks of text breathe with tiny one sentence paragraphs between them
 
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