Narrative Skills Lessons
Emotion 1: Emotional cause and effect
Recognise emotion-behaviour loops in narrative, and use them to create stories in which events have emotional meaning.
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Emotion 2: Representing character emotion
Write stories that feature realistic and complex character emotions.
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Emotion 3: Evoking emotion in the reader
Write narratives that create mood and evoke interest, empathy, and contrasting emotions in the reader.
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Goals and motivations
Write narratives that feature compelling, coherent character goals and motivations.
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Contrast & juxtaposition
Learn to use contrast and juxtaposition to create compelling descriptions, emotional effects, and conflict.
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Conflict & resolution
Learn to create, develop, and resolve rich narrative conflicts.
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Change, cause & effect
Learn to write stories that hang together and result in a change in character or circumstances.
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Point of view
Learn to choose the right point of view for a story and get the most out of the choice.
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Valuing & judging
Learn to make stories more meaningful through characters and narrators that can hold values, express opinions, and change over time.
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Narrative distance
Learn how to write at—and move between—different levels of narrative distance.
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