Narrative Writing

           Narrative writing is technique of writing that we use to make most stories. The product of narrative writing is narrative story, a story that is very usual and long-lasting and have no special elements or special specification. Narrative story has some elements that are identical with other story, not alike mystery stories that has a lot of important and different elements. Narrative story can be a fact (true story) or a fiction (alike folk tales).
Narrative writing produces narrative story, such as:

• Folk tales
• Legends
• Fairy Tales
• Chain (continuing) stories

           Elements of narrative story (narrative writing) are:

1. Characters     

            Character is all of the human, animals, and plants that have a role or do something in a story. Take Cinderella as an example. In that story, Cinderella, his stepmother, the dwarfs, and the prince play his own role. Cinderella as the poor girl, his stepmother as a despicable and cruel woman who press Cinderella, and the dwarfs as a joy and wealth giver and the prince as the dancing partner for Cinderella. All of them can be classified or called as the characters in that story.

    2. Setting

           Setting is where and when the story take place and time. Setting helps the reader to imagine the real situation of a story, to make the it looks happen in a real world near us. A setting will become very real and imaginable if we add audio visual aids, such as sounds, pictures, and videos. Cinderella has a setting in a castle and her house.With them, we can imagine us as one character or player in Cinderella, and we can really understand and enjoy the story.

  3. Plot

          Plot is steps that containing important events in a story. Plot of the story will be very clear if we draw it in a shape of graph-like diagram. This diagram will include introduction, conflicts, climax, and closing or resolution. Introduction is a start of the story. It usually introduces characters and settings of the story. An event could be called as a conflict if it has a big effect to the story and make another big events. Climax is where the story reaches its peak. If in a folk tale, the climax is where we got the lesson, or the success of the characters. Resolution or closing is the end of the story, which explains the character's life after his/her success.

  4. Dialogs

        Dialogs is the element that differentiates narrative story or writing with descriptive story or writing. Dialogs are the real and direct words or sentences that the characters said along the story. This will make the story "live" and happen really. Dialogs make the reader "hear" what the character said. Dialogs written by using quotation marks, such as "(dialogs)", (character) said.
Example: "Wash my clothes quickly!!!", her stepmother said.