3344: Blog #8

Narrative writing has plots and characters and is used for telling a story. It must tell the sequence of events over a period of time. The most important part of narrative writing is for it to have a beginning, middle, and end.
The beginning part must give an introduction to the story, must have an interesting statement that will have the reader interested in reading this story, and it must also have detail, excitement, or mystery. This is where we must have a "grabber" sentence.
The middle must clearly and completely describe the events. This part must have the majority of detail and must keep the sequence of events in order.
The end must tell the reader the closure to this story. It will also tell the reader what he/she just read. To me this part has to let the reader know that reading this story was worth it.

Writers Workshop was very interesting. I really liked hearing the comments from my group and also giving them some feedback on their work. This was very helpful and also pretty fun to hear some of the things that were being said.
When doing a writers workshop one must first get in a group of 4-5 people. Then the first person will begin to read his/her piece, the others will sit and listen. After the first person is done reading their paper, the other members will begin to comment. This is known as the sandwich theory. During the comments the group members will say what they liked about it, ask questions, give suggestions, and give positive comments. There will be no editing during this time. We may however suggest new word choice, character suggestions, and help with the development of events. During the comments and suggestion, the person reading their paper should take notes on some of these suggestions.
Then the next person in the group reads their paper and the steps will repeat until everyone has had their chance to read their papers. After everyone has read and heard their comments and suggestions, the group members will individually rewrite their papers. The comments and suggestions should help the others when revising their paper.
The last step when writing a paper should be the editing. This is the same during a writers workshop. We must not do the editing until we have gone through commenting on everyone in our group and have revised our paper using some of the comments and suggestions from our group members.