I
never paid much attention to paragraph or sentence lengths. I just
wrote, felt satisfied if I got the story down. Then, in the late
eighties, I got a job as a editor at a publishing company in the
Midwest.
As an editor, I noticed that I had a visual reaction to a person's writing: how it looked on the page, how dense or light. How much white space or how much text. Even before I began to read, I had a sense of whether I would be engaged, just by how the text looked.
As an editor, I noticed that I had a visual reaction to a person's writing: how it looked on the page, how dense or light. How much white space or how much text. Even before I began to read, I had a sense of whether I would be engaged, just by how the text looked.