1. A clearly identified event: I will explain the dilemma, or main point of the narrative. My senior year creative writing teacher gave the class an assignment of a 25 page piece that would be the final. I had taken the class for an easy 'A' and to fill a hole in my schedule, had never done any creative writing, nor had I wanted to, and wasn't expecting it to be any work. The people involved were me, my friend, my teacher, and the rest of the class.
2. A clearly identified setting: I will explain the locations where I worked on the story and that are relevant to the narrative- my class, the school library, and my house. I will situate it into my senior year.
3. Vivid, descriptive details: I will use descriptions of the assignment, my classmates, my feelings of being overwhelmed and stressed about the assignment, my teacher, my friend (who I worked on the story with). I think that the most important details will be how I was feeling because I think my audience can relate to them.
4. Consistent point of view: I will use the first person to tell the story.
5. A clear point: I will explain how and why my story matters to me and to my audience. The story matters because it is how I developed a liking of creative writing, it changed my outlook on writing, it pushed me out of my comfort zone, and I am really proud of the outcome. After hearing the initial assignment, I thought that there was no way I could do it, let alone finish it on time, but I worked really hard and I was able to. My narrative matters to my audience too because I bet they have been in similar positions and the situation applies to more than writing-it is about doing something out of your comfort zone.
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