The prompt for the Narrative Project Assignment has to be about a moment from my past when I or someone close to me made a decision that had a negative or positive impact on my life. Below are the links to the relevant blog post that served as part of my writing process and an introduction to my Narrative Project.
I chose to write my Narrative Project on a moment from my past when someone close to me made a decision that had a negative impact on my life after I made blog post Composing a Past Scene. In my blog post Composing a Present Scene, I couldn’t write about playing with my dog because although it was a positive moment in my life, it did not have any long-term effects. I also didn’t want to write my narrative on my post Composing a Present Scene with Dialogue and Symbolism because it also didn’t have any major influence on my life negatively or positively long-term.
After writing down in my notebook possible moments, I decided to ask my mom if she could help me think of any other moments, and this is where my narrative blossomed. The moment I decided to compose is one that has affected my life the most over anything I have ever experienced. My Narrative Project is about how my dad made a decision that negatively altered my life because it prevented me from attending my dream four-year university. My scene features the effect his decision had on me along with my entire family, as well the struggles I had to face my senior year of high school.
In class, every student read their blog post Composing a Past Scene in order for it to be critiqued for improvement. After many suggestions and comments from students about my scene, I was able to understand and add on more vital details about this moment in my life. Below are links to my rough drafts of my Narrative Project. After rewriting my story in my blog post Composing a Past Scene: Part 2, I was able to develop my story and write my first draft.
Before writing my second draft of my Narrative Project, I wrote in the blog post Found Poem of my Narrative Project a poem to help me improve my story. That blog post was written in order to see if my story was descriptive enough. In the second draft, I explore a counterfactual to my story and how the story would have turned out differently which I explain in my blog post Narrative Project Rewrite: Exploring Counterfactuals and Midterm Reflection.
After writing two drafts of my narrative, I decided to hand them to my teacher for possible revisions and suggestions for a third draft. I concluded that I wanted to combine draft #1 and draft #2 in my third draft. I wanted to stay with the original story because it is much easier to write about a scene that I actually experienced. Draft #2 depicts a counterfactual that I would actually think about when this scene happened, which has allowed me to recreate this scene in Draft #3. By the time I wrote my final draft of my narrative, it had been weeks since I had written the original. I have learned to accept this reality and I am still going to transfer to West Chester University after two years at Delaware County Community College which I will be looking forward to.
I chose to write my Narrative Project on a moment from my past when someone close to me made a decision that had a negative impact on my life after I made blog post Composing a Past Scene. In my blog post Composing a Present Scene, I couldn’t write about playing with my dog because although it was a positive moment in my life, it did not have any long-term effects. I also didn’t want to write my narrative on my post Composing a Present Scene with Dialogue and Symbolism because it also didn’t have any major influence on my life negatively or positively long-term.
After writing down in my notebook possible moments, I decided to ask my mom if she could help me think of any other moments, and this is where my narrative blossomed. The moment I decided to compose is one that has affected my life the most over anything I have ever experienced. My Narrative Project is about how my dad made a decision that negatively altered my life because it prevented me from attending my dream four-year university. My scene features the effect his decision had on me along with my entire family, as well the struggles I had to face my senior year of high school.
In class, every student read their blog post Composing a Past Scene in order for it to be critiqued for improvement. After many suggestions and comments from students about my scene, I was able to understand and add on more vital details about this moment in my life. Below are links to my rough drafts of my Narrative Project. After rewriting my story in my blog post Composing a Past Scene: Part 2, I was able to develop my story and write my first draft.
Before writing my second draft of my Narrative Project, I wrote in the blog post Found Poem of my Narrative Project a poem to help me improve my story. That blog post was written in order to see if my story was descriptive enough. In the second draft, I explore a counterfactual to my story and how the story would have turned out differently which I explain in my blog post Narrative Project Rewrite: Exploring Counterfactuals and Midterm Reflection.
After writing two drafts of my narrative, I decided to hand them to my teacher for possible revisions and suggestions for a third draft. I concluded that I wanted to combine draft #1 and draft #2 in my third draft. I wanted to stay with the original story because it is much easier to write about a scene that I actually experienced. Draft #2 depicts a counterfactual that I would actually think about when this scene happened, which has allowed me to recreate this scene in Draft #3. By the time I wrote my final draft of my narrative, it had been weeks since I had written the original. I have learned to accept this reality and I am still going to transfer to West Chester University after two years at Delaware County Community College which I will be looking forward to.
Here I will provide Drafts of my Narrative Project:
- Broken Dreams, Draft #1
- Broken Dreams, Draft #2
- Broken Dreams, Draft #3