Here I provide an introduction to my narrative assignment and links to relevant blog post that served as part of my writing process. In order to help me prepare for my Narrative assignment I practiced Composing A Present Scene and also composing another Scene In Present Tense That Included Dialogue And Symbolism.
This narrative assignment is about a moment from my past in which I made a decision that impacted me and also the people that I care about in my life. Throughout my life I have made many decision that impacted me including the good and the bad decisions that I could have picked to write about for my narrative. After thinking about decisions that I have made I noticed most of them didn’t majorly impact me as much as one decision/event did. That event was the day that I got arrested and charged with a DUI. Now the DUI that I got wasn’t because of drinking and driving but instead it had to do with weed. I decided to write my Narrative about this day because it impacted me greatly and also created obstacles for me down the road that I would have to face in order to pay for the bad decision that I had made that put myself in that bad situation. The decisions that I made are included in my blog post Composing A Past Scene.
As I was writing my first draft everything was in order and I was covering everything that went down that day but after hearing some of the feed back from some of my classmates I realized that I had to cut out a lot of "telling" moments because I was over explaining some details of that day. In my blog post Composing A Past Scene:Part 2 , you can see how my narrative first started out.
For my second draft after hearing feedback on my narrative I decided to try and switch up the perspective in which my story was being told. You can see the changes that I made to my second draft in my blog post narrative project rewrites:exploring counterfactual's ,I originally was telling the story from first person point of view and changed it to third person point of view to see if it would give the reader a better interpretation of what was going on in the story. I realized that I did not like the way it sound and it did not make much of a difference so I switched the story back to first person point of view.
Finally,for my third and final draft I cut out the"telling" sections and replaced it with more "action" moments to show the transitioning of different scene's with in my narrative.My blog post Found Poem Of My Narrative Project helped me magnify some of the action scenes in my narrative and pick out key words that make the most meaning out of my narrative.