Narrative writing

1. Narrative writing A story with a conflict and a resolution

2. Seven Tips Write on one experience with a conflict • Ask the 5 W how questions: Who( characters) What happened (plot) Where (setting) How (plot progression and details) • Use lots of dialogue

3. Tips continued • Use sensory details • Make sure you have a climax • Make sure there is a resolution to the story

4. Step One • Choose a memory, and bring it to life by recalling the details • Imagine the story in your mind • Organize the plot line and main events on an outline

5. Step Two • What did you hear, see, feel and experience and can write about? • Add your details to your outline

6. Five Ways to start writing the narrative • Start with a description • Start with a question • Start with an anecdote • Start with a quotation • Start with dialogue

7. Things to think about while you are writing • Stories can make you laugh and can make you cry • The essential elements are to have three key events • Select good narrative details that add to the story • Use description in your narrative writing • Use dialogue for a purpose • Establish a point of view ( who is telling the story?)

8. Ideas to write on: • A time when you were a child and learned a lesson in life • Patience • Self control • Lack of anger • Sharing • Forgiving • Not lying about something • Not taking someone else’s things

9. Ideas • A time when you were afraid and it worked out • A time when you made a big mistake and how it worked out • A time when life was tough and yet in time you got over it

10. Next Step • Start with writing your lead in your introduction • Next, add the who, what, when where into your essay. • Define in a few sentences where this story is happening and who is in it. • Draw us into the story

11. What are leads? • In your introduction you can start with a lead such as dialogue, feelings, experiences, backflashes, anecdotes, questions, or statements

12. While you are writing • Add your details • Details are: • Anecdotes, incidents, similes, metaphors, comparisons, adjectives, adverbs, experiences, examples, dialogue, feelings, etc.

13. Paragraphs 2,3,4 • These paragraphs are called the body paragraphs. • Each paragraph is building the story to a climax • The climax should be starting in paragraph 3, but really comes to fruition in paragraph four. • The climax is the highest and most exciting point in the story.

14. Paragraph 5 • This is the resolution to the story. Your story needs to be resolved in paragraph 5, and a conclusion needs to happen. Add clincher sentences and make the ending believable. Don’t always wake up from a dream!