See, despite the fact that I can get into the 8-10 paragraph range, I'm not the kind of person who does that in regards of putting too much to respond to. I'm the kind of person who can write 1500 words of my character literally doing nothing. Just sitting there thinking about life. Doesn't even say anything, or if they do,it's three words. I actually cut my actions and reactions short in order to give the other person(people) a chance to respond. I'm like y'all, a whole lot of that in a post can get in the way and leave me blindsided with "how do I respond?" But I'm also of the belief that long posts don't have to mean a overwhelm of action and/or dialogue to respond to. Depends on the person's style. I've actually had complaints because I do keep it minimum and let the other person respond. But in their case, they wanted a lot more action to respond to because not having much, left them with the same feeling y'all (and I) have when there's too much. For me, if I have a lot of action and dialogue to respond to, or even a bunch of characters at once, I can very easily get confuse and either miss something important or misunderstand it.