Transitions in fiction are words, phrases, sentences, paragraphs, or punctuation that may be used to signal various changes in a story, including changes in time, location, point-of-view character, mood, tone, emotion, and pace.
Transitions provide for a seamless narrative flow as a story shifts in time, location, or point-of view.
They aid the internal logic of a story by moving readers from sentence to sentence, paragraph to paragraph, idea to idea, scene to scene, and chapter to chapter with grace and ease.
[3] Transitions in fiction also refer to how the trajectory of characters changes according to the various factors that affect them.
This shift can also denote a parallel transition that takes place regarding the state of mind of the character.