Narrative Descriptive Writing

Narrative/Descriptive Writing Tells a story based on personal experience, including precise description relevant to the story

Guidelines • Follow a series of actions through a particular time sequence – Describe people, places and events

• Prolong the exciting parts of the story • Smaller the focus is time, the more you have to say

…continued… • Use – – – –

Concrete detail Precise action Appropriate language Honest emotion

…continued… • The W’s – – – – – –

What happened Who was there When event(s) took place Where event(s) took place Why event(s) took place How did event(s) happen

Dialogue

Point of view • Participant • Witness