Perspective
Narrational Buzz
Creating a Narrative
100

“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.” -Charlotte Brontë

What is first person

100

Speaking with a free mind, not thinking about what you have to say

What is natural speaking

200

“You intend to take on Dawlish, Shacklebolt, Dolores, and myself single-handed, do you, Dumbledore?” -J.K. Rowling

Third Person

200

Talking about anything in the past

What is narration

200

Using "first" "second" "next" "last"

What are transition words

300

“You know that the best you can expect is to avoid the worst. The dimension of time has been shattered; we cannot love or think except in fragments of time each of which goes off along its own trajectory and immediately disappears.” -Italo Calvino

Second Person

300

Narrating to help the listeners understand easier

What are examples

300

Include only parts that

What is develop your plot

400

“Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods." -Edmund Burke

What is omniscient narrative

400

I was walking in the rain (depth)

What is simplicity

400

To better understand your own ideas and actions use

What is using third person

500

“I know I said that I always choose the anticlimactic over the irrevocable, and yes of course what I meant was that I have always been a coward, but I lied: not always, there was that night, there was that one time.” -Tana French

Unreliable Narrator

500

An ingredient of narrative

What is description

500

Talk about the past, places they haven't visited and unexperienced events

What is by writing

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