Writing Styles - Narrative writing

Narrative writing is a story of events joined together to provide entrance and communication. The circumstances can be factual or fictional, presented in a grouping of written or spoken words, silent or stirring images, or both.

The purpose of Narrative writing is narration- the art of storytelling. A factual story is based on simple actions that are unfolded in real life. A fictional story is invented or made up; the characters and events are created as the writer sees fit. The writer writes the story to engage the audience emotionally, whether it is through enjoyment, kindness, panics, or anger.

Features of narrative writing include characters, plan, conflict, location, and point of view. Types of a narrative essay include:

•     Novels- a long, imaginary narrative that defines intimate human thought of facts or events.

 

•     Short stories- an invented story shorter than the length of a novel, with fewer characters, often focused on creating disposition rather than a storyline.

 

•     Comics- used to express thoughts by images, often joined with writings or other visual information.

 

•     Plays- are a form of literature written by a writer, usually consisting of a channel of communication between characters, intended for stage enactment rather than just reading.

 

•     Musicals- dramatic performance that combines songs, spoken conversation, drama, and dance.

 

•     Narrative poetry- is a method of poetry that tells a story, often creating the voices of a narrator and characters; the entire story is usually written in a regular pattern of accented- long or unaccented- short.

A style of writing can be well-defined by the way an author writes. For example, narrative writing is a method individuals use to express their thoughts and ideas. This style differs with each author and depends upon the sentence structure, paragraph structure, presentation, and the attitude expressed in their conversation or writings used to deliver the meaning successfully.

The choice of words is actually a central component in every writer’s style. Although good wording is somewhat a matter of test and blunders, of playing with sentences until they sound right, it is also a matter of following familiar taste that careful readers and writers tend to share.