Do you have any advice for storytelling essays?
I am writing a challange essay but I do not know how to imrove my narrative skills.
Yes that's such a great idea! Worked very well for me.
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I think the "College Essay Guy" website includes a guide on narrative writing for college essays. I recommend checking it out, and his other guides too. The site includes examples, brainstorming worksheets, and ways you can write a narrative essay. It'll help you set up at least a structure for your essay. Outside of these guides, I found that pretending to present a story in my life as if I was in front of an audience helped me initially get my ideas down to paper. This was just something that worked for me though, I saw others mention examining examples and I think that would work too.
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For me, storytelling never came easily. The only thing I'd advise you to do is look at good essays with good writing. Obviously, you cant copy them but I found that I got many ideas for my own writing that came from just that. Not in a way that you regurgitate it but internalize it for your own topic.