Years ago, a dear friend read my MFA thesis, a novel titled, The Greyhound Chronicles . He told me how much he enjoyed seeing my use of line breaks throughout the story and how the breaks affected his read. My response? “Uh, thank you.” You see, I wasn’t consciously doing it as I wrote. I had no idea I was doing it. After my friend’s comment, I reread the book and saw the breaks and realized it was something I just did while writing, something I learned in studying fiction and poetry and the importance of the word and white space and how readers may be affected by not only what  we write, but also how  we write it. Lines breaks are not just for poetry. We writers of short stories, novels, novellas, articles, essays – we, too, can use line breaks to great effect. For this post, I’m going to use two examples, both from great reads you’ll find on the site  SNAPS 1000 Words , a site that publishes weekly stories of 1000 words that are inspired by photography...