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Old 09.07.2007, 11:45 PM   #644
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Funny you say that. It's one of my little "secrets" in writing. I like paragraphs with three sentences.

If I can't do three, I have to do odd numbers--1 sentence or 5, but never more than 7.

I used to do this for news briefs, too. It was one paragraph, 3, 5, and so on, even if it meant breaking up a paragraph.

It's an odd quirk of mine, but whenever I'm stuck on an article, on how to organize it, I look at its "numbers" and when I straighten out the sentence numbers, it starts lining up.
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