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by snowwrestler 2933 days ago
It's a (somewhat dated, probably) copyediting rule of thumb that a written paragraph has about 100-200 words in it. This would be in a writing style you might see in a novel or an essay. For online writing, perhaps more like 50-100. Even that might be long for the style of writing where each sentence is its own paragraph, supposedly for impact or whatever. Not sure you can really call it "paragraphs" when each one is only a sentence.

For reference, the above paragraph is 78 words long.