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Questions tagged [narrative]

A narrative is an account of events. This tag should be used for anything related to story-telling, including elements and principles or structure.

This tag should be used for questions about s and s for your and to your reader.

Narrative is the tags for the descriptive questions in the writing process. "How do I show X to my reader?", "What techniques can I uses to make my reader feel Y?" Question related to the events or structure of your story should use the tag instead.

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Describing a Character Traveling: Too much narrative?

I am new to writing and I am trying to a write a novel. In the first chapter, my main character travels from her hometown to a different town far away. I want to use this time to give the reader a view of the kind of place she lives in and also…
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Depth in third person limited

I am writing in third person, limited , past with half a dozen POV characters. I make an effort to never slip into omniscient and try to keep my character POVs in their own voices i.e wheel of time. My problem is that I tend—with one character…
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Should you explain where the level of detail comes from in a first person story that is in past tense?

Sometimes I read a first person story in past tense and I'm amazed at how much the main character is able to remember in such detail about events that happen decades ago. I know some books uses tools to explain the level of accuracy in the…
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Learning Story-Telling

For a long time I put off writing a novel, having been preoccupied with the contemplation of how to accomplish prose rhythm, and having little knowledge of the elements of story-telling and of the methods necessary for writing an excellent story.…
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