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Narrative Writing: OR

Narrative Writing: OR. Setting. What if The Lion King took place in Indiana? What if Finding Nemo took place in Ireland? What if The Outsiders took place on the moon? The SETTING a writer chooses is significant. It can make ALL the difference! Choose it wisely. Then DESCRIBE it !

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Narrative Writing: OR

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  1. Narrative Writing: OR

  2. Setting • What if The Lion King took place in Indiana? • What if Finding Nemo took place in Ireland? • What if The Outsiders took place on the moon? • The SETTING a writer chooses is significant. It can make ALL the difference! Choose it wisely. Then DESCRIBE it! BE SPECIFIC: Don’t say, “It was a summer day.” Say, “It was so sticky my clothes stuck to my body and sweat made its way down my back, between my shoulder blades.”

  3. Develop your Character(s) • What good is a story if there are no characters? What if there was a story with no one the reader could relate to, no one the reader could love, no one the reader could hate? • PICTURE YOUR CHARACTER IN YOUR MIND: • Physical Description • Describe what they spend time doing (Actions) • Describe their thoughts • Describe how other characters react to them • What do they say? Use dialogue to reveal their personality.

  4. Develop your character(s): Be specific! Let’s practice: Look at the picture. • What physical traits can we describe? Don’t say a hand; say a pasty hand clutching the steering wheel. • What does this person do? Don’t say, “He is a driver”. For what company? Where is he going? Why? At what speed? • What are they thinking? • How are other characters reacting to them? • What are they saying?

  5. CONFLICT • Without it, you have no real story. It becomes a simple series of events. I can hear the reader yawning already! • Pick more than one conflict for your story: internal AND external. • What is an internal conflict for Bobby in Chernowitz!? • What is an external conflict faced by Bobby? • What is an internal conflict faced by Johnny in The Outsiders? • What is an external conflict faces by Johnny in The Outsiders?

  6. Conflict: Let’s Practice • What INTERNAL conflict is this character experiencing? • What EXTERNAL conflict is this character experiencing?

  7. COMPLICATION • Don’t jump straight from a problem to a solution. That is NO FUN! • Provide some sort of problem along the way, while your character is TRYING to solve the main conflict. • Maybe on their way home finally, they realize they have also lost their key. Maybe before a starving lion finds food, they injure their paw and can’t hunt as easily as they thought? • What is the major conflict and complication in The Outsiders? • What is a conflict and complication in Finding Nemo?

  8. Resolution with a moral • You must satisfy your readers in the end with a resolution and a moral/lesson. This does NOT mean it has to be a happy resolution every time, but you can’t have too many loose ends, or your reader will look like this: • You want them to be able to say, “Oh, I get it!” You do not want them to think you ran out of time!

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