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  1. @intransitivelie

    Oh yes, fountain pen on college ruled paper, please. Do not disappoint your fellow Fedis!

    As to long paragraphs, there's nothing wrong with a micro-stream of consiousness in a micro-post, especially when as elegantly written as yours! But if you want to fight your inner three-sentence demons, do visit David Allen Green, the truest of true stylist among bloggers and micro-bloggers.

    Green will compose posts mostly made up of one-sentence paragraphs.

    Short sentences at that.

    He has a journalism background, which helps to overcome the Proustian tendencies that we all have.

    And that last sentence by F Scott Fitzgerald: it makes for a fine single-sentence para in a toot. In fact I have tooted this very sentence as such. Twice, in fact, once in earnest, once in jest (with four months between them):

    mastodonapp.uk/@the_roamer/113

    mastodonapp.uk/@the_roamer/113

    @davidallengreen

    #style #ShortParagraphs #HandwrittenToots #ProustianTendencies #FScottFitzgerald