Have You Ever Been Drawn Out of a Story by a Confusing Change?
While reading novels, short fiction, or nonfiction publications, you’ve likely grappled with writing where a substantial change takes place between paragraphs. You stop for a few seconds. Huh? After scanning the last few words of the previous paragraph, you realize that a section break would have saved you from your momentary lapse of reading enjoyment.
Consider the definition of break in the context of this post:
an interruption of continuity or uniformity; a disruption; a timeout
Section breaks help to organize your story when changes such as the following occur:
- a switch to a different point of view
- the passage of time
- movement to another location
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