Exploring Narrative Writing: Creating Captivating Stories and Developing Conflict

📚 Narrative writing is about creating compelling stories that captivate the reader or viewer.

🌍 Narrative writing can be found in various forms, such as books, movies, and newspaper articles.

🤔 Understanding conflict is crucial in narrative writing as it forms the core of storytelling.

📖 Plot structure plays a significant role in engaging the audience and resolving conflicts in a narrative.

📚 Narrative writing can take the form of fiction, legal writing, newspaper reporting, or personal narratives.

❓ Narratives revolve around conflicts, such as arguments, decision-making, or challenging situations.

💡 Narrative writing aims to capture the reader's attention and emotions through storytelling.

🔑 Conflicts in narratives can be categorized into three types: person versus person, person versus self, and person versus society.

🤝 Person versus person conflicts involve conflicts between two or more individuals, such as arguments, misunderstandings, or fights.

🧠 Person versus self conflicts refer to conflicts within the protagonist themselves, such as making tough decisions or exploring their identity.

📚 Person versus self, person versus nature, and person versus technology are the three main types of conflicts in narratives.

🔍 Examples of person versus self conflicts involve a character's internal struggles or decisions.

🌿 Person versus nature conflicts involve a character fighting against natural elements or forces.

📖 Writers build books, movies, and essays around conflicts using a plot mountain as a visual tool to understand narrative organization.

🌍 The exposition introduces the setting, characters, and conflicts of the story, while the rising action intensifies the conflicts leading to a climax.

💥 The climax is where conflicts reach their highest intensities and explode, creating impactful moments in the narrative.

📚 The climax of a narrative is a turning point in the story, altering the life of the characters with the outcome of the conflict.

⏳ After the climax, the action in the story starts to slow down, known as the falling action.

🔚 The story ends with a resolution to the conflict.

📝 In this video, we learn about narrative writing in high school.

✍️ The process involves writing, editing, and revising your story.

🗣️ There are also opportunities to share your work and receive feedback.