The Order of Points
Writers of the line versus writers of the object. Writers of the object continue the thought on the next paragraph by going into the first point after introducing the three points in the previous paragraph. Writers of the line place the first point in the same paragraph as the introduction of the three points and then do not hesitate to place a point across two paragraphs or conflated with another point in the same paragraph.
The kind of writing that propels forward through an adventure of unknowns is the type that is following the line. But when each paragraph is a discrete piece and the writing places ideas in their right place, then it treats the verbal forms as the objects they represent.
Writers like Sigmund Freud and C. S. Lewis reside somewhere in the middle, because they do place the first idea in the same paragraph as the introduction but they move forward by placing everything else in its proper place.