Do you use scene breaks?

[Paul_Tromba]

I use them in sets of three. For example,

* * *

It works out fairly well.

 

[TheHelpfulFawn]

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See that asterisk over there? A scene break is a transition between scenes, and it does not have to be an asterisk: it can be a hashtag, three or four periods, or any symbol. Do you use scene breaks in your story?​

I used to. Not anymore. I think it is necessary to use Scene Breaks if your chapters are longer and have more than 1 or 2 scenes in them.

 

[JohnDoe9838]

I use them in sets of three. For example,

* * *

It works out fairly well.

Same.

Come to think of it, I've been using these scene breaks a bit without thinking about it, simply out of "common sense". Not that it works very well. My common sense I mean.

If I analyze it, the scene breaks I use them when I don't want to break the... "idea" of the scene and I need to move the location to another one that has been visited before, where telling the transition doesn't make sense so it doesn't distract from the drama/action.
Also even if the other location is not known beforehand, if the character must travel along a route, path or whatever and there is no dialogue with another or internal monologue and I want to mark a passage of time, I would use this device. It would also help to give a sense that the place is distant and build a feeling of isolation, if I go that way.

 

[Paul_Tromba]

Same.

Come to think of it, I've been using these scene breaks a bit without thinking about it, simply out of "common sense". Not that it works very well. My common sense I mean.

If I analyze it, the scene breaks I use them when I don't want to break the... "idea" of the scene and I need to move the location to another one that has been visited before, where telling the transition doesn't make sense so it doesn't distract from the drama/action.
Also even if the other location is not known beforehand, if the character must travel along a route, path or whatever and there is no dialogue with another or internal monologue and I want to mark a passage of time, I would use this device. It would also help to give a sense that the place is distant and build a feeling of isolation, if I go that way.

Agreed. I don't think I would want to narrate complete silence till they get somewhere else when I could just focus on another party or skip ahead a bit.

 

[Ai-chan]

I use them in sets of three. For example,

* * *

It works out fairly well.

When Ai-chan used it, Ai-chan used six. Take that, peasant!

 

[Paul_Tromba]

When Ai-chan used it, Ai-chan used six. Take that, peasant!

Good thing I'm part French. VIVA LA REVOLUTION!!!!!

 

[CarburetorThompson]

did you just write in fucking latin?

Dude straight speaking in dorime ameno

 

[YS_og]

Yes, and I use

▽▽▽

between bodies of text to symbolize time skipping forward however much it skips

 

[Cain_Abel]

No, I just write in paragraphs.