Spacing is a small thing that can make your writing easier to read. By spacing, I'm mostly thinking of paragraphs. Good spacing helps fast readers scan content quickly to get the gist and helps slow readers read comfortably without losing their place.

Think of your reader's brain as a buffer. When you give them a wall of text to read, they often have to read everything at once, because if they stop, it becomes difficult to find their place. But when you space things out, you give them a chance to stop taking in data, process what they've got, and get ready for fresh input.

See the spacing in this post? Here's a different version of this post, without spacing. Which do you prefer reading?

A tip on how to split up a large paragraph: find a point where it looks like you're moving on to a new idea, and break that out into a new paragraph. But don't overdo it. Don't do "LinkedIn-style" spacing, where pretty much every sentence is a paragraph. That negates the benefit of spacing since everything now looks the same.

Related reading:

• How to write paragraphs, from Google's Technical Writing docs