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Source: https://writers.stackexchange.com/q/17155
License name: CC BY-SA 3.0
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What's the difference between the two? I've seen both in the same book. For example in [the Bone Clocks](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bone_Clocks) by David Mitchell:

**Space breaks:**

> He’s clever, I realize. First he makes you grateful. Right. Of course. I do believe it’s time I was off.
> 
> DANDELIONS AND THISTLES grow along the cracked track and the hedges are taller than me.
> 
> * * *
> 
> And look what a fool she made of me, when my turn came to be Amanda Kidd–ed. Doesn’t Stella need friends? Or for Stella, are friends just a way to get what you want?
> 
> ON MY LEFT’S a steep embankment, with a dual carriageway running along the top, and on my right a field’s been cleared for a massive housing estate by the look of it.

**Three-dot breaks:**

> “What’s that s’posed to bloody mean?” Brubeck lets it drop. So I let it drop too.
> 
> • • •
> 
> THE CHURCH IS quiet as the grave. Brubeck’s asleep in a nest of dusty cushions.
> 
> * * *
> 
> “Not calling me ‘sweetheart’ would be a good start.” I don’t hide my laugh. The guy stares daggers at me.
> 
> • • •
> 
> LESS THAN A hundred yards later this knackered Ford Escort van pulls over. It might’ve been orange once, or perhaps that’s just rust.

Is the `• • •` a bigger scene break than then spaced one? When to use the former and when to use the later?

Original score: 5