“Curfew,” the story of a depressed man who is asked to take care of his young niece, won the Oscar for live-action short film Sunday night. The film stars Shawn Christensen, who also wrote and ...

To which I add, make your paragraphs short -- 50 words or less (the length of this one.) To scanners, a thick paragraph is an invitation to stop and jump ahead, or to stop reading altogether.