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For example,
Scene 1 is about MC and his family at home.
Scene 2 is about MC and his best friend at school, maybe some back story when he comes into play.
Now do I merge those two scenes? Maybe his friend comes over to his place for dinner, where I introduce them all at once?
Or keep them seperate?
One thing that might help is to consider each scene, or chapter, as a story in itself with a start, middle, and end, a theme, character development, and rises and falls in crescendo.
Chapter/section breaks are partly a matter of opinion, and also don't forget some authors might not do these things very well. I've read some books where chapter breaks seem completely arbitrary - in the middle of action scenes or dialogue.