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How Many Sentences Should There Be in a Paragraph?

How many sentences should your paragraph have? Different types of writing have different requirements. In this article, we explain how may sentences a paragraph should have depending on what you're writing.

ProWritingAid For Deep Edits

Deep edits involve fine-tuning your manuscript for one type of mistake at a time. ProWritingAid has several tools that help you polish your novel for stronger, clearer writing.

How to use ProWritingAid's Pacing Check

Pacing refers to the speed at which a story is told and how quickly the reader is moved through events. Good writing contains faster-paced sections, such as dialogue and character action, as well as slower-paced sections, such as introspection and backstory. Find out how ProWritingAid's Pacing Check can help you keep readers turning the page.

Why You Should Read Your Manuscript Out Loud

There's no such thing as a perfect manuscript, but you'll get as close as possible if you read your book out loud before you publish. Here's why.

Avoid These 10 Fiction Writing Mistakes

Struggling from a case of writer's block or wondering what's blocking you on the path to publication? Read on to ensure that you're not making any of these fatal writing errors...

How to Use Backstory in Your Novel

Backstory enriches your characters but slows down the story. Zara Altair offers tips on how to use backstory in your novel.

3 Things I Learned About Writing From The Final Season of Game of Thrones

Millions of fans are not thrilled with the ending of 'Game of Thrones'. Hayley Milliman examines what lessons aspiring fiction writers can learn from the show's missteps.

Tips on Line and Copy Editing

Literary agents are the gatekeepers of the publishing world. Their verdict on a five-page submission can make or break an author’s dreams. It’s critical to ensure your submission catches an agent’s eye and doesn’t immediately get passed upon.

How Can Developmental Edits Get My Work Ready for an Agent?

How to Have the Best Relationship with Your Editor

The best editors understand how to help you take your manuscript from rough draft to a finished masterpiece.

10 Mistakes you are making with your grammar and how to fix them.

An editing tool checks for writing issues that go far beyond mere grammar problems.

FREE EBOOK: 20 Editing Tips from Professional Writers

This practical guide contains 20 important writing tips and techniques from a wide range of professional writers. Some focus on the minutia of specific word selection; others focus on the more complex ideas like finding the right metaphor, policing your work for Purple Prose, or figuring out when it’s time to send it off to potential publishers.

All About the 25 ProWritingAid Reports

ProWritingAid analyzes your writing and presents its findings in 25 different reports. Each user will have their own writing strengths and weaknesses and so different reports will appeal to different people. Remember, all the software can do is highlight potential pitfalls in your writing. It's up to you, the writer, to decide which suggestions work within your specific context, and which ones should be ignored.

What You Need to Know About the Pacing Check

Pacing is what moves your story forward quickly, then slows the action down so your readers can catch their breath and learn more about your character’s thoughts. The ProWritingAid pacing check can help you determine whether or not your story is moving along at the right clip.

Does Your Writing Need a Paramedic?

The Paramedic Method aims to help writers learn to write more concisely, persuasively and actively. Dr. Marlene Caroselli outlines the method and sets three writing challenges. Does the Paramedic Method help you breathe life back into dead sentences? Have a go and let us know what you think!

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The Writing Process

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How to Use ProWritingAid

ProWritingAid in the Classroom

How Many Sentences Should There Be in a Paragraph?

ProWritingAid For Deep Edits

How to use ProWritingAid's Pacing Check

Why You Should Read Your Manuscript Out Loud

Avoid These 10 Fiction Writing Mistakes

How to Use Backstory in Your Novel

3 Things I Learned About Writing From The Final Season of Game of Thrones

Tips on Line and Copy Editing

How Can Developmental Edits Get My Work Ready for an Agent?

How to Have the Best Relationship with Your Editor

10 Mistakes you are making with your grammar and how to fix them.

FREE EBOOK: 20 Editing Tips from Professional Writers

All About the 25 ProWritingAid Reports

What You Need to Know About the Pacing Check

Does Your Writing Need a Paramedic?

Grammar Guide

You're Currently Browsing:

Articles about pacing

The Writing Process

Blogging and Content Writing

Grammar Rules

Business Writing

Writing Apps

How to Use ProWritingAid

ProWritingAid in the Classroom

How Many Sentences Should There Be in a Paragraph?

ProWritingAid For Deep Edits

How to use ProWritingAid's Pacing Check

Why You Should Read Your Manuscript Out Loud

Avoid These 10 Fiction Writing Mistakes

How to Use Backstory in Your Novel

3 Things I Learned About Writing From The Final Season of Game of Thrones

Tips on Line and Copy Editing

How Can Developmental Edits Get My Work Ready for an Agent?

How to Have the Best Relationship with Your Editor

10 Mistakes you are making with your grammar and how to fix them.

FREE EBOOK: 20 Editing Tips from Professional Writers

All About the 25 ProWritingAid Reports

What You Need to Know About the Pacing Check

Does Your Writing Need a Paramedic?

Grammar Guide

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