lunabee34

Very good point for teaching fiction. It's one of those things that we somehow expect students to absorb as they write, or to osmose from published fiction, but they don't. Even more importantly, and this is true of a lot of fiction techniques, is to show the effect of breaking the rules. "What if we broke the paragraph here? What would be emphasized? What would be blended together?" Like a big circular argument where both sides are supposed to look chaotic and ineseparable: I might put lots of dialogue together in one paragraph in that situation. Would be interesting to try to do as an exercise. Maybe, provide a short text, and see how students could paragraph it differently? As well as showing the "proper" way?