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the Narrative

the Narrative. Creating. Write What You Know. Story Tells Truth. truths of daily life via story The Epic of Gilgamesh - Sin-leqi Unninni The Bible The Holy Koran Night - Elie Wiesel. Write What You Know. Writing a narrative is simple Know where to look Every one has a story

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the Narrative

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  1. the Narrative Creating Write What You Know

  2. Story Tells Truth • truths of daily life via story • The Epic of Gilgamesh - Sin-leqi Unninni • The Bible • The Holy Koran • Night - Elie Wiesel

  3. Write What You Know • Writing a narrative is simple • Know where to look • Every one has a story • Is it entertaining and/or instructive?

  4. The Vast Store House • Exploring the attic • We remember everything • All five sense file data • Follow the thread • Tease out the detail

  5. What’s in the attic? • Make lists • Earliest memories • Where have you lived? • You are your neighbor’s keeper

  6. Narrative Arc • Exposition • Complication • Climax • Resolution (usually with a twist)

  7. Catalogue the information • How old are you? • Where are you? • What time of day is it? • What is the weather? • What is the season • What do you hear? • What do you see? • What do you smell? • Who’s there? • What happening?

  8. People and events flow upside down • What are the people, activities and details that make the situation normal, everyday, humdrum? • What are the things that turned the day upside down? • Only when you have a memory in which the story flow moves from right side up to upside down, do you have a narrative that will hold your reader, audience, or listener.

  9. The Lesson • Does anyone, especially you as narrator, learn anything? Is there a moral? • You know you do when you are able to move from narrative to the confessional line “From then on…,” “Never again…,” “From that day to this….”

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