Background

View the Paragraphs in Your Fiction presentation. As the presentation guides you through basic paragraph formation in prose, think of how you can incorporate this into your own writing.


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Now open the Coherent and Unified Paragraph presentation. Pay attention to the examples provided.


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Digging Deeper

Read "Parsing Paragraphs" by Victoria Grossack, a contributing writer at Fiction Fix. As you read, answer the following in your Creative Writing notebook:

  1. How do the lengths of paragraphs create a rhythm for your readers?
  2. List three instances that Grossack provides as examples of when to start new paragraphs in fiction writing.
  3. How do non-fiction paragraphs differ from fiction paragraphs?

 

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