• Work on your own “shitty first draft”! Look at the material you’ve generated through brainstorming and freewriting, and use the process below to help you form your writing into a draft:
    • First, answer the following questions:
      • What have you decided to focus on for your education narrative? Why have you chosen to tell this particular story?
      • What is the meaning/significance of your story? Why should people read it? Write this out in one sentence.
      • In one word, how do you want people to feel when they are done reading your story? 
      • Freewrite details you remember about the situation you are describing: include people, places, dialogue, feelings, thoughts, etc. that are in some way connected to your story.
    • Second, review what you have so far and try to label the features of your narrative arc.
      • Exposition/Inciting Incident (who, what, when, where  and how does your story begin?)
      • Rising Action (you should include a lot of the story details here)
      • Climax (the moment of most drama and significance)
      • Falling Action (what happened after?)
      • Resolution (what was the result of this experience? What is the significance?)
    • On a new piece of paper (or a new screen) use all the writing and thinking you have done to draft your education narrative.