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This tag should be used for questions about a scene in a written work, such as a [novel] or a [screenplay].
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Spicing up a moment of peace
Why not introduce a new scene, or in some other way advance your worldbuilding, during such a descriptive section? … Now, we provide an evocative, beautiful description of some natural scene, but the elements of the scene that remind the character of her loss make her melancholy, and this emotion is reflected (although …
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Is it advisable to add a location heads-up when a scene changes in a novel?
One of the major uses of chapter-changes and section-changes is to signal a change of scene (or similar, e.g. passing of time). … The show-don't-tell advice in other answers is sound--and with a section break, the reader knows a scene change may have happened, so you don't need to do much 'showing'. …