The first step is dividing your story into paragraphs. A wall of text is not only hard to read but very intimidating. It tends to scare off potential readers! So how do you divide into paragraphs? Well, that's basically up to you. It's a good rule to basically make a new paragraph each time the story moves to a new idea. Another good way to think about is to envision the scene in your head. When the hypothetical camera shifts angles, it might be good for a new paragraph! It's really up to you, but you do need to find some sensible way to divide your story up into paragraphs.
Paragraphs are divided by a full line break! In normal writing you would just hit return and then indent the next paragraph, but the internet doesn't like indenting, so we have to use a full line break.
.Once upon a time there was an example paragraph. And in this paragraph lived someone named Mr. Hypothetical. He wasn't a very happy person. But then, paragraphs aren't exactly very interesting places! They're very dull. He hoped that someday he could get out of his dreary paragraph. Would he jump ship to another, more hip paragraph like this one? Look at the composition! Clearly this paragraph was designed by an expert. It's way out of his price range, though. Pity. Therefor, Mr. Hypothetical looked farther. He looked to the stars! He wanted a place in an essay! Imagine all that free space to roam. It's the kind of thing examples dream of. If anyone actually read these example paragraphs, I hope you had as much fun reading them as I did writing them!
See that? Tough on the eyes. It's difficult to read a wall of text like that. Get those paragraphs in there!
Once upon a time there was an example paragraph. And in this paragraph lived someone named Mr. Hypothetical. He wasn't a very happy person. But then, paragraphs aren't exactly very interesting places! They're very dull.
He hoped that someday he could get out of his dreary paragraph. Would he jump ship to another, more hip paragraph like this one? Look at the composition! Clearly this paragraph was designed by an expert. It's way out of his price range, though. Pity.
Therefor, Mr. Hypothetical looked farther. He looked to the stars! He wanted a place in an essay! Imagine all that free space to roam. It's the kind of thing examples dream of. If anyone actually read these example paragraphs, I hope you had as much fun reading them as I did writing them!
Now, add the line breaks.
.Once upon a time there was an example paragraph. And in this paragraph lived someone named Mr. Hypothetical. He wasn't a very happy person. But then, paragraphs aren't exactly very interesting places! They're very dull.
He hoped that someday he could get out of his dreary paragraph. Would he jump ship to another, more hip paragraph like this one? Look at the composition! Clearly this paragraph was designed by an expert. It's way out of his price range, though. Pity.
Therefor, Mr. Hypothetical looked farther. He looked to the stars! He wanted a place in an essay! Imagine all that free space to roam. It's the kind of thing examples dream of. I want to know why the people who write examples in grammar books never do fun stuff like this. It could be such a fun job.
The story now looks organized and professional. Makes a huge differences to readers and fellow writers.
Now, the rule you have to remember is that for each new speaker, you need a new paragraph (with a line break!) You can't have multiple characters speaking in the same paragraph.
One day Mr. Hypothetical called over his friend Mr. Example to talk about his aspirations. "What do you think?" he asked enthusiastically after outlining his idea.
"Absurd! A pipe dream at best!" was his friend's shocked reaction. Mr. Example couldn't believe the audacity of Mr. Hypothetical to think he deserved better than the best of them. And it was so far fetched!
Mr. Hypothetical smiled. "You are not alone, Mr. Example. I too dream of pipes!" Anybody get that reference? Kudos if you did.
There! I just felt that we've had an influx of great stories and a lot of them could use this bit of advice. It sounds like some sort of infomercial but this tiny thing can make a massive difference in the quality of your story. So, there you go! Hope this helped people! ^^
