Writing shorter paragraphs is harder than it seems

I found that one of the the hardest parts of writing a news article is using shorter paragraphs.  When I wrote an accident report article for Newswriting, I had a lot of difficulty keeping each paragraph to one or two sentences.  The essay writer in me wanted to include longer descriptive paragraphs.  I never would have thought using shorter paragraphs would cause me so much distress. 
Well, maybe I wasn't totally distressed but it was certainly more difficult than I thought it would be.