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Quote by MadMartigan
You have that backwards. You never want to just go on describing things through dialogue. That gets boring and tedious.
As someone else mentioned, varied dialogue length is key as well as varied sentence length. Short snappy paragraphs are great for parallel structure and stating something powerful and meaningful, succinctly. Longer ones are great for showing.
Um...I think that was me who was talking about varying paragraph, sentence, and word length and type. Of course, one doesn't want to use dialogue only (at least not usually - I've seen writing that is almost nothing but dialogue, and it can be done to good effect if handled well and done right). My point was that dialogue - which usually involves a short paragraph - is a great excuse to vary from longer paragraphs.
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