assignment 1

yay! first post on a blog ever! woop!

anyways, onto the assignment.

Narratives

A narrative after all is telling a story. What does a story need to be engaging to your audience? What does a story need to be fluent and make sense? When writing a narrative you can use what are called story grammar's. Story grammar's are an attempt to set up rules that provide a framework and structure for any story. They make any story easily comprehensible to any desired audience. Story grammar's identify basics in any story and tie those basics together to create a great story. To use story grammar's you must identify the topics of the story that are most important and use them in the body of a paragraph followed by a transition into the next topic(s) in the next paragraph. Of course, after identifying those topics, details need to be added to paint the picture in the reader's mind. The following paragraph is an example of story grammar's at work. It is out of a paper for my english class that is entitled "Four Defining Moments."

The first moment that came to mind is not only memorable but totally defines a piece of the puzzle that is Sarah Hatch. One day, a week into Kindergarten I was admiring a girl’s outfit in my class. Chloe always wore the latest styles for kids our age and she owned it.  I remembered wishing I looked like that. By no means did I look straight off of the street or like I crawled out of a garbage can, but I didn’t look stylish. My mom dressed me and she loved to see me in ethereal florals, pretty pastels and whimsical lines which are really what girls my age should be wearing.  I couldn’t take it anymore. After school that day, I marched right up to my mother and said, “I wanna dress cool. I don’t think you should dress me anymore.” And we marched straight off to the mall. From that moment on, I have been fashion-obsessed and best dressed all by my own accord. Kindergarten? 5 years-old? Was I really already that outspoken? Later, that quickly found talent would get me into trouble.