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Steps to compose a narrrative writing - Coggle Diagram
Steps to compose a narrrative writing
STEP 1: Determine your setting
By picking locations, it helps build your atmosphere better and excite the readers, transforming mundane scenes into a more interesting place.
In order to come up with an appropriate setting for your story, think about elements such as : the season of the story,weather, events that could effect the setting of the story, details on the atmosphere, name of the area, how the setting could be related to the character and hold significance etc.
The setting plays a key role in building a story. The setting allows the reader to understand the atmosphere and determines the mood . The setting also affects the actions and emotions of the character.
STEP 2 : Make memorable characters.
A narrator should understand the aspects of the character that he/she has created and determine their hobbies/ obsessions, personality to determine their actions and reactions as per the situation. These actions will enable the character to be a memorable or significant character in the story.
It is important for the characters to be interesting and memorable for the readers to have a connection with and probably relate to, which increases their likeness to your story.
Characters help shape your story and one of the main important features of it. If it does not have characters, it would not be a narrative but a descriptive.
Characters play a big role in the story so it is important for them to be unique just like real people. It is crucial for a writer to understand their character's personality and their response in different situations. While writing the writer should explain all aspects of the character to the reader and make sure the character stands out.
Here it talks about how to make memorable characters. As a narrator its a narrators job to describe the character and how they interact with the world around them. Characters are similar to us they have there hobbies, obsessions and more.
STEP 3 : Understand the two types of conflicts
There are two types of conflicts; internal conflict, which is a problem from within your self and there is external conflict which is problem from outside.The external conflict could be with another character or group of people, or any other outside factors.
Conflicts are important in a narrative because this allows the story to move forward and create tension within the story.
Without conflict, your story might seem dull because there is nothing for the character to solve.
A story needs to have a disturbance in the pattern and that can be done by the use of conflicts. There are two types of conflicts: internal and external conflict both conflicts help move the story forward and increase tension. External conflict could be a disturbance between two or more people in the story and internal conflict could be the character struggling psychologically..
Conflict allows the reader to see character development and plot development, as well as create different layers in the story. This will cause the story to develop naturally and engage and interest the reader.
By creating an internal conflict, you can develop a character really well and help the readers relate and possibly connect with the story and the characters.
There are two types of conflict eternal and internal conflict. internal conflict is when you have issues inside you like struggles, for example, you're an alcoholic and struggling with that and the other one is external conflict this is when you have issues outside of you, for example, you being chased by clowns who are going to stab you with pickaxes
STEP 4: Give your plot a twist
A plot twist is an unexpected change in the story, that happens towards the middle of the story, to keep the reader guessing and interested in the story. This prevents the story from dragging and causing the reader to lose interest in the story. A plot twist will interest the reader and change their understanding of the story. The reader's understanding can be tricked by adding 'false leads' or 'red herrings' in the story, these are clues purposefully mentioned to mislead the reader.
It would be very interesting for the readers to come to a plot twist, this would help interest the readers and continue to read on.
Red hearrings means giving false leads basically when your a narrator you need to find ways to make the reader not predict what happens next and give them false leads this makes the reader more engaged to the story and surprise the readers even more
You can trick the readers into thinking they had it figured out by implanting "false leads" or "red herrings" so when the twist is introduced they would have no idea what hit them!!
In order to not drag the plot the writer needs to include plot twists to keep the reader interested and engaged in the story. A reader can do this by using a techniques called "red herring", which is giving the reader false leads to not make the story predictable. Another technique that writers use is a "cliffhanger", which makes the reader curious about what happens next.
A "cliffhanger" is also an important way to keep your readers interested in this step. It would keep the readers hooked and wanting to read on by keeping the suspense and keeping the readers at the edge of their seat.
STEP 5 : Recreate natural dialogues
Dialogues are important to form a narrative. They determine the difference between and description and narrative and are important for the story to develop and the reader to identify the character. In order to get the dialogue right, the writer should know how the character speaks and his/her personality. This can be dependent on where they're form , their culture, the era to, etc.
Dialogues help set the character's tone and personality and would be helpful to see how they would react in this situation
If your dialogue is in the past your dialogue should accurately reflect speech pattern and idioms of that time
The writer must ensure that they give there character a tone which tells the reader exactly what the character is trying to say and what kind of personality they have. The tone of the character could be influenced by their past, where the come from, what emotions they are feeling. The also must make sure that the conversations are specific to the time.
Dialogues are very hard to make because the writer needs to be able to continue the tone of the character's personality.
STEP 6: articulate voice through point of view
This step is about the voice of the story. It determines who is telling the story.
Here it talks about how the point of view the story is going to be in. There are 3 points of views "First person" This consists of "I"s and then there is "Third person limited point of view" this consists of he's and she's and then there is the "Third person omniscient point of view"
To articulate the voice the writer must add in a point of view such as: first person, second person and third person, in order to understand whose telling the story.
The voice of the story determines if the main character himself will use "I", "we", or use second-person pronouns such as "you, yourself, your etc", or if the narrator will narrating the story using "She/her, He/him, they, them etc"