1. Personal and story writing
Narrative
Personal and story writing

2. Narrative Writing A Narrative is a STORY.
Narrative ~ A fictional story you can make up all of the events.
Personal Narrative~ A TRUE story about an event that happened in your life.

3. Order Beginning: Middle: End: Introduce characters, place
Events happen (Rising Action)
Use details
Keep the events progressing forward
End:
Result (Falling Action)

4. Narrative Writing Tell a fictional story. Write the events in order.
Remember your plot diagrams.
You can do flashbacks.
Paragraphs can be any size. INDENT!
Still proper grammar, spelling and capitalization.

5. Dialogue Indent for each new speaker. Use quotation marks.
Use commas inside the quotation marks, then who said the words.

6. Dialogue
“Wow,” Jim said as he walked down the eerie hallway to his destination. “I can’t believe it!”
“Hey, wait up!” Joe yelled, as he saw his friends shadow disappear around the corner. Blah, blah, blah, blah Blah, blah Blah, blah Blah, Blah,blah Blah, blah Blah, blah Blah, blah Blah, blah Blah.
“Relax bro,” Jim retorted.

7. Back and Forth Conversation
“Look at that,” Jim said. “I know,” whispered Joe. “How do you know?” “I just do.” “Yeah, right.” (You can stop using their names each time when they talk back and forth right away).

8. Continued Talking
No Capital letter if you continue after you write: I said or Joe said
“Sir,” I said to the officer, “the kid just broke his arm.”

9. Narrative Vocabulary
Cause and effect: Do something, something happens
Chronological order: Events go in order of TIME

10. Narrative Vocabulary
Flashback: Go back in time to explain an event or feeling
Foreshadowing: Hints to future events
Adjectives: Describe nouns
Sensory language: See, hear, feel, taste, smell

11. Figurative Language Idiom: Piece of cake
Personification: The wind was screaming…
Oxymoron: Jumbo shrimp

12. Figurative Language Simile: She was like a tiger on the court.
Metaphor: She was a tiger…
Hyperbole: I am so hungry I could eat a horse. I am so tired I could die.
Alliteration: Billy Bob bought a bright blue BMW.

13. Point of View First Person: Character is the narrator.
Use “I” and “we”

14. Introduction The “Hook”
Catch the readers attention!
Provide the information the reader will need to understand the story
Who are the major characters? When and where is it taking place? Is it a story about something that happened to you, the writer, or is it fiction?

15. Body paragraphs Show – don’t tell Passage of time
includes details and descriptions
Use all five senses to add details about what you heard, saw, and felt during the event.
For example, “My heart jumped as the dark shape of the brown grizzly lurched toward me out of the woods” provides more information about what the writer saw and felt than, “I saw a bear when I was hiking”. Supporting Evidence In a personal
Passage of time
Chronological order
Transitions

16. Conclusion The Moral of the Story
Include the closing action of the event
Include some reflection or analysis of the significance of the event to the writer.
What lesson did you learn?
How has what happened to you affected your life now?