A couple of years ago, I wrote about Chris Maiorana’a post suggesting that writers adopt a one-line-per-sentence workflow. You can read his post on the matter to see his arguments on why. At the time, I wrote that I used that method for my two books but because it worked better with the [GT]roff typesetter rather than for any writer workflow reasons. Since moving to Org mode for my writing I’ve given it up not least because it doesn’t play well with WordPress where a lot of my writing ends up.
Maiorana is back with another post on the subject that those who embrace the method may find useful. His idea is to use Emacs’ hl-line-mode to highlight the current line. That brings some other benefits to the one-line-per-sentence method that Maiorana describes in his latest post.
I used to use hl-line-mode, although not in conjunction with one-line-per-sentence, but stopped because it interacted poorly with some other mode—probably visual-line-mode where it highlights whole paragraphs. Even when I was using it, I sometimes found it annoying despite it being useful for locating the current line. I’m sure I’m in the minority on that so you should definitely give it a try if you’re not familiar with it. It’s builtin so you can simply toggle it on for the current buffer with Meta+x hl-line-mode to try it out.