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Originally Posted by Lemurion
It's generally seen as wrong when combined with indented paragraphs. As a rule, you get one or the other.
The block paragraphs (no indents) and blank space system works, but it leads to problems with longer documents. If every paragraph has a space after it, it's hard to distinguish scene breaks unless there's a symbol that divides them. Indented paragraphs provide more flexibility because you can use spaces for something else, and they make it easier to tie paragraphs together as a unit.
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But the OP did not mention the use of both extra lines and indents in the same work--of course that's redundant.
A preference for indents does not mean that the use of an extra blank line instead is wrong.
ETA: Just curious. Do you folks who change formatting to echo that of paper books want all lines justified?