How do you get thoughts to flow from paragraph to paragraph?
I've never understood paragraphs. When I was in elementary school, I never used them, and it didn't seem to be a big deal. From middle school through high school, we wrote the same five paragraph essay over and over, varying the filler. That was good training for writing five paragraph essays, but not much else. In college I managed to avoid writing classes altogether. Now, all of my writing is disjointed. You could remove a single paragraph from one of my "essays", and it would flow just as well. The removed paragraph could stand alone and not be unintelligible. Surely this can't be how it's supposed to work. I have the feeling you get when you're sure you've misspelled a word, but every alternate spelling you try looks wrong too. I know I can't be writing well, but I have no idea how to go about fixing it.