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POV change… speed bump, like a horizontal rule, something.  And I make that new POV the first NAMED character of the scene.

WTH is Pro Writing Aid?  heh.  Non writer here...

Desiderius Price, it sounds like you’re suggesting a line-break—a horizontal line that divides two passages of text. I use those in my writing as a rule, but the program plum doesn’t recognize them when it sees them. Using a character’s name as a subheading works for other people, and there’s nothing wrong with it. I pride myself on my ability to indicate the target character without explicitly stating it, though; we’re talking word choices, idiosyncratic behaviors, deep-diving into their chain of thought through the use of third person limited, etc. Even just the way a character structures their sentences can be used to identify them. It’s comparable to method-acting versus skill acting. (Hence why I’m barmy at the least and neurotic at most; I’ve got at minimum a hundred different characters fighting for dominance in my head at all times, and the loudest of them are even more emotionally constipated than I am.)

That said, my writing instructors hammered into me with a ruler and red pen that if you force-feed your readers, you’re going to choke them and have no readers, so I can be a bit too...careful about it.

And DemonGoddess, Pro Writing Aid is like Grammarly, only a bit better. They’re spelling and grammar checking programs that leave the built-in options twitching in the dust. I got started with PWA because Grammarly wouldn’t function with Libre Office, and it worked so much better, I just kept using it when I got access to Word again. The free version is effectively neutered now, unfortunately, and the price for the lowest tier makes me wince every time I see the charge.