Saved by Christina Ducruet
Here is New York (1949)
What we’re really asking is: What might happen (what needs to happen) over the remaining seven paragraphs to elevate this into a story?
George Saunders • A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: From the Man Booker Prize-winning, New York Times-bestselling author of Lincoln in the Bardo
I would argue that the paragraph, not the sentence, is the basic unit of writing – the place where coherence begins and words stand a chance of becoming more than mere words.