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Q&A How to separate scenes in a chapter?

I have multiple scenes in a chapter, sometimes from different POVs, or different locations/times. Now I would like to make it clear to the reader that they have left a scene and are entering a new ...

5 answers  ·  posted 12y ago by Shantnu Tiwari‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

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#3: Attribution notice added by user avatar System‭ · 2019-12-08T02:27:23Z (almost 5 years ago)
Source: https://writers.stackexchange.com/q/6062
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#2: Initial revision by user avatar Shantnu Tiwari‭ · 2019-12-08T02:27:23Z (almost 5 years ago)
I have multiple scenes in a chapter, sometimes from different POVs, or different locations/times. Now I would like to make it clear to the reader that they have left a scene and are entering a new one.

Now, Scrivener (which I just started using, so I'm not an expert), places a '#' between scenes, but I have never seen this in a real book.

I have seen things like:

.---------------

or

x--------------x

to separate scenes.

I'm not so interested in what the style manuals say, I just want to make it easy for the readers to understand they are in a new scene.

What is the easiest way to accomplish this?

Edit: To clarify, I'm planning to self publish, so I will be doing the manuscript formatting myself.

#1: Imported from external source by user avatar System‭ · 2012-07-12T11:32:44Z (over 12 years ago)
Original score: 9