I seem to recall a general rule of thumb from back in grade school that a paragraph must consist of a minimum of three sentences in order to be fully-formed.

Of course, I break that rule all the time (see above). And others think that three is too low-ball of a number to create a “real” paragraph. And in this post-modern digital landscape, where short attention spans call for short wordbites, I’d say most (not all) rules from the past century are null.

So if you clock some time at Paragraph, an abode for writers seeking quiet writing time in the heart of the Big Apple, feel free to make your grafs as long or as short as you want.

You might think that it’s daft to pay for such writing space when you could just go to, say, the library. But I can see the need to get to a non-bustling environment where you don’t have to tune out constant distraction. And a hundred-odd bucks a month for 24-hour access to simple office space in NYC is a drop in the bucket.

Finding your muse on 14th Street… Go figure.

(Via Apartment 47)