I once saw paragraphs as formulaic. 
At least four sentences.
Topic Sentence.
Supporting Detail #1
Explanation of Said Detail
Transition Word followed by Supporting Detail #2
And so on
Tidy rectangles. 
Blogging changed this. 
Without the economy of paper, I could reduce a paragraph to four sentences. 
And guess what?
No one cared. 
If anything, the medium itself screamed at me, "You can't pull a Dickens and run a 12 sentence paragraph.  These are pixels not papyrus dammit and you'd better respect the fact that they are one tab away from chatting with friends than reading your long-winded nonsense." 
So, I began to see paragraphs as different. 
Breaths. 
White space. 
No sound is still considered a note in music. 
Space. 
Liberated from the confines of grammar school lectures and formulas.  I'll write as short or as long as I please and press return when I want, because I need space.
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