Language: it's all around us. Narrative is the element that captivates our minds in the tallest of tails. Understanding narrative theory would allow us to be better communicators. In this article, I will go through the proper steps of writing a good narrative
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Instructions
     1. First write a hook. This acts as an attention grabby. Some kind of catch line or a slap in the face.
     2. Orientation comes next. This brings the basics of who, what, when and where. You're setting the scene for what is going to take place.
     3. Next is the complication action. This is the juicy part: the conflict. This action has to disrupt whatever balance of peace in the story and it is the problem that needs to be resolved.
     4. Since you have a conflict, there must come a resolution [well most of the time, some stories just don't get resolved and leave you hanging, but that's for another article].
     5. The story must come to an evaluation. This is what you and other people involved think or feel about the events and how things turned out and happened. You can get as creative as you want with this.
     6. Then comes your conclusion or the coda, which brings you back to your present moment and time.
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Narration is a way of telling a story in the form of an essay. It is a means to disclose important information in a relaxed and informal conversational style. A cohesive approach and strong adherence to details are required to write a narrative essay of any kind. Read on to learn how to write narration

           Instructions
     1. Read the work first to get the gist of what the writer is trying to express through his work. Carefully interpret the events of the past and present if included. Try to understand the points that the author makes and ascertain the general idea of the whole manuscript.
     2. Narrate the essay by starting with an introduction of the author and the work in first person. Use "I" to write the story. This indirectly creates an aura of informal dialogue between the reader and yourself.
     3. Quote a few of the original lines of text and dialogue from the work in your narrative essay to keep it as real as possible and discuss important events in detail.
     4. Make it a point to end the narrative essay with some thought provoking lesson. Use the work of the author to arrive at a lesson obtained by the human experience in the book. Write that experience in your essay to help the readers reflect on life in general.
      5. Work on the grammar, punctuation and the style once you have made a rough draft of the narrative essay. Add your unique writing style to the finished piece and double check for errors and information accuracy. Also read aloud the final draft to spot any repetitive wording. Keep it simple yet structured.
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