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Narrative Writing Assignment Information:
Brainstorming Helps:
Key Questions~
1.What is the purpose of a narrative writing or short story?
2.Who is your audience/
3.What mood are you trying to create?
4.Will your narrative be fiction or non-fiction?
5.Who will the main character be?
6.Who will the minor characters be?
7.What is the setting of you story?
8.What conflict occurs in your story?
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Instructions for your narrative outline:
1
Detail the overall storyline. This doesn’t have to be perfect or even in complete sentences. Just draft a rough overview of the story that the narrative should tell. Don’t include pertinent details, just get the general story down on paper so that you can determine if the direction you want to take will work.
2
Make a list of characters. One of the hardest part about getting a narrative down on paper is figuring out what characters exist in your story and why. Write a character list and next to each one draft their name and purpose. While details about each character may change over time, knowing why there are in the story helps to determine their direction and to build the story around them.
3
Set the scene for your narrative. Figure out where the plot takes place and draft a list of details about the setting. You can go back later and incorporate some of these details into the storyline, but making a list of them now aside from the actual writing process gives you time to focus on the setting. Be descriptive and imaginative in your setting, bringing it to life for the reader.
4
Put the events of your storyline in order. Figure out what takes place and when and incorporate this into another list. Eventually, when these lists are melded together to form the basis of your narrative, you will have all of the components in place. Make sure the time line seems right in terms of what is supposed to happen and when.
5
Draft a list of details you don’t want to forget. The outline is not the time to determine that one of your characters has long, brown curly hair but if this is a detail that is important to you, put it on your detail list to remember for later.
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