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Writing A Narrative Essay

This guide will help students with writing narrative essays. The guide will discuss how to use descriptive writing and dialogue.

Choosing Your Topic?

When starting a Narrative Essay the first step is choosing your topic. The best stories are created from a significant event surrounding the author's life. Choose an event, person, or scene that changed your viewpoint or had an enormous influence on ones personality, life, values, or goals. 

Topic ideas

When determining a topic for your narrative essay make sure you select a topic that can be fully discussed within the confines of the essay’s assigned length and that is appropriate for a school setting. 

 

Example Topic Ideas:

  • An experience that changed you the most

  • First time experience or visit to a place

  • Describe a time where you got in trouble or made an mistake
  • Tell a story about your role model
  • A day when you became a parent, sister, brother, or got your first pet etc.
  • A Failure or Achieving a goal.

 

The essay topic you choose should be interesting and important to you, because the best essays are written on the topics that really matter to the writer.