Narrative writing

A story with a conflict and a resolution

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

Tips continued

• Use sensory details

• Make sure you have a climax

• Make sure there is a resolution to the story

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

Step Two

• What did you hear, see, feel and experience and can write about?

• Add your details to your outline

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

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?)

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

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

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

What are leads?

• In your introduction you can start with a lead such as dialogue, feelings, experiences, backflashes, anecdotes, questions, or statements

While you are writing

• Add your details

• Details are:

• Anecdotes, incidents, similes, metaphors, comparisons, adjectives, adverbs, experiences, examples, dialogue, feelings, etc.

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.

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!