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/storyline) • Use lots of dialogue • 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 [self-experience] • Start with a quotation [idioms] • 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 actions 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 • In the introduction, you can start with dialogues, 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. 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 interesting sentences and make the ending believable. Don’t always wake up from a dream!