What the OP actually said was, "do you have to indicate the line break like you would use a line break while shifting POV?"Originally Posted by The Wrong Writer
Now, if you believe that remark in some way makes the question into something about POV, my suggestion to you is to go back to elementary school and learn comprehension.
Ah, so "a line break like you would use a line break while shifting POV" doesn't have anything to do with POV?
Interesting. Are you aware of the concept that one uses like breaks to "shift POV". If so, could you cite where you heard about it?
Pretty obvious by now nobody's going to spill where they got this whole pound sign idea from.
I still don't know why you're going on about the POV when I cleared up what I meant: when you have a new scene with a new character. Drop it. I'm not even talking about that anymore.
My question was whether you had to use a hash mark for every blank line or just the ones that showed a SCENE BREAK.
Hash mark info HERE.
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Having a new scene with a new character has nothing to do with it either. It could be the same scene, same character a few hours later.
You keep figuring out different ways to describe a simple break as though it meant something to the plot, setting, characterization. It doesn't.
Whatever reason you have for double-spacing between paragraphs, that's all it is, a break in the narrative.
You've gotten a couple of opinions on the hashmark thing. I don't see anybody citing any reason to use it.
But you keep going on and on about characters and such.
Look, never mind.
He was comparing a line break for scene changes with a line break for shifting POV.
(Whether he was right or wrong about using a line break for a POV change is irrelevant)
“Line break” was the subject of the question, not POV.
Like I said, go back to school and learn comprehension.
What the hell is a "line break for shifting POV"??????????
Apparently comprehension also runs down the drain counterclockwise south of the equator.
I'm not sure what your stake in this is: to jump into somebody else's discussion and get insulting. But tell you what... why don't you take care of it?
And if you get around to figuring out why these people think they should stick hashmarks in the middle of a manuscript, and where they got the idea, don't be shy about dropping the buttinsky BS and speaking up.
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