The Importance of Scenes in Short Fiction

The line break is a signpost to the reader that we are making a pivotal change at this point. The form, the chapter, the scene, whatever, that form is a portion of the syntax. It's very confusing if you're in exactly the same room with exactly the same person and only thing that's changed is he's now put a fork full of food in his mouth. That piece of the form would be very confusing. I'm not saying it can't be done. But most of the writers we read understand that you use that line break in order to telegraph something happening.