How To Write Correctly

Paragraphs

Do you know what makes the ugliest story?  When the paragraphs are HUMOUNGOUS AND FAT!!!  Seriously, it just looks unnatural.  Here is an example of a huge and fat entry (you don’t have to read it, just want to show you what one would look like):

Example 1:

     My Christmas was BORING!!!  It was so flavorless that paper seemed juicy.  All my family did was open presents (finally getting their lazy butts up at 11am!), watched the Disney parade on the television and watched a boring movie that wasn’t even related to Christmas!  The worst part of the entire day was that Netflix wasn’t working so I could not watch any Doctor Who. I love Doctor Who, I wonder if it is possible that he could exist.  You know, if this camp exists than why couldn’t he?  I would love to meet the Doctor, I would tell him that my name is the Loner just to see his reaction.  I just realized that Kronos is the Lord of Time and the Doctor claims the same title, maybe the Doctor is Kronos…wait…I’m just confusing myself.  Of course the Doctor isn’t Kronos; the Doctor is ALWAYS sexier than Kronos.

I know, Sky has no life.  Now for me to correct one of her entries

Example 2:

      I have absolutely no idea what to think.  I had school today and it was a half day so everything was just a huge mess.
     When I sat down at a table with a bunch of girls that I didn’t know with my friend, we ate in silence.  When one of the girls at the table tried waving over a black girl to come sit with her, the black girl said,  “I ain’t sittin with dat white b*tch.”
     I knew that she was talking about me and my friend because we were the only white people at the table.  If I didn’t know any better, I would’ve stood up and yelled “Dat’s racist, b*tch” but I didn’t want to get punched so I stuck to reminding myself that she was just a stupid mortal.  My blood still boils when I think about that female dog, I’ll just kill her in a book later and make it all better.

I know that it is difficult to know when to make another paragraph, but that’s more about your writing style.  The thing that you MUST know is that two people can’t talk in the same sentence.  I’ll just take another example from a diary.

Example 3:

     “What are you doing, missy?” my Spanish teacher screeched from across the room when she noticed that I was staring off into space.  “Nothing,” I responded, quickly looking down at my blank paper to start working on it.  “I hope that you are done…” she trailed off as she made her way swiftly over to my desk, her heels clacking annoyingly on the tile as she walked.  She picked my paper off my desk and mocked a surprised expression.  “Oh my, there is absolutely nothing written on this paper.  Since you were staring into space I guess that you don’t care enough to work so I guess that you think that you’re done,” she droned then took my paper away.  No me gusta Español.

Do you see how ugly that is?  Not only is it this HUGE paragraph, but it gets confusing of who is talking.

Example 4:

     I found out that I wasn’t the only one that had trouble with my Spanish teacher! I asked one of my “friends” if the teacher was any meaner in her class.
     “Yeah, in the beginning of the year *NAME* had stood up to her.  Then she was suspended,” *FRIEND* told me.
      “Why would she do that?” I wondered.
     “Ms. *TEACHER* had really gotten on her last nerve,” *FRIEND* informed me.

Yeah, those look like skimpy paragraphs but at least you can tell who is talking.

So PLEASE take my advice about paragraphs, I dislike when I see stories that are just fat paragraphs with many people talking in the same paragraph.