I really enjoyed writing my Personal Narrative story, and I think it turned out well.
I liked the challenge of 'showing,' rather than 'telling', and found that it really did make for a much more capturing story. I've had trouble in the past using flowery descriptive language when that was the expectation, because I always felt like it was overdone and cheesy. Besides, 'showing' rather than 'telling' can capture the feeling/atmosphere of a situation so much more effectively than simply saying "there was tension in the air," for example.
I realized just how bad my memory is. The story I wrote about happened this spring–not long ago at all. But still, to remember the details of Samir's story I had to email my dad to get him to help me. And I entirely fudged some details. I wish the story was a little more accurate to what actually happened. Man, I gotta keep a journal.
Not outrightly stating the central message was a challenge, and I overcompensated by making the central message pretty hard to figure out. I'll have to do better at that in the future. But overall I'm pretty proud of my end result!
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