Yahoo Answers is shutting down on May 4th, 2021 (Eastern Time) and beginning April 20th, 2021 (Eastern Time) the Yahoo Answers website will be in read-only mode. There will be no changes to other Yahoo properties or services, or your Yahoo account. You can find more information about the Yahoo Answers shutdown and how to download your data on this help page.
Trending News
Tips on wrighting a narrative.?
I'm about to wright a 1000 word narrative for the first time. Any tips would be appreciated. Also tips on how I can keep it going long enough to get a 1000 words out of it. I tend to go straight to the point so it makes me hard to get length out of anything.
5 Answers
- 1 decade agoFavorite Answer
Well, 1000 words isn't much of anything at all. Just choose and event and describe it. After you have described the event thoroughly, with all necessary detail you can go back in and add even more description just for the purpose of boosting word count.
Narratives are quite easy, and once you start writing it you will find that 1000 words is barely any, and you will probably get much farther than you expected you would. Especially if your narrative is about something very important, because when a larger picture is important the details tend to be important as well.
Details seem to be the key to success.. Also a positive attitude helps. Do not get like 100 words (that may be one to three paragraphs... depending on paragraph length.) into it and then give up. Giving up is the one thing that will keep you from ever successfully writing anything. If you don't give up, you can't fail at writing.. because that's all it really is. Words and perseverance.
(Also, this answer is 1/5th of the length your 1000 word narrative would be. See, if you multiple this by five... it isn't that much. I'm sure you can do it!)
Edit: ALso, I find that if you give yourself specific word count amounts for each thing that happens like: "I want to spend at least three hundred words describing the car ride..." you can easily reach your word count goal. Of course, not everything can be stretched to be so many words... just find places that you can do so and then do it... but not in a way that bores the reader with unnecessary information... (I know, it is a lot to take in, but it is really fun to write, isn't it?)
:)
- Snarky91Lv 51 decade ago
Do not worry so much about telling your reader what happened. Instead, use descriptive prose to give your reader a sense of the mood and emotion.
- BethanyLv 71 decade ago
Just write. Sit down and write till your fingers bleed. Then go back and edit.
- How do you think about the answers? You can sign in to vote the answer.