Editing Your Personal Narrative

Magical Editing Glasses

Paragraphing
1.   It is perfectly natural that while drafting your narrative you are not going to be concerned about paragraphing.  It is important, though, that before publishing, you put on your editor's eyeglasses and correct these types of errors. 
     Indenting to show the start of a new paragraph will help the reader because it will let the reader know a change is coming.  In a narrative, that change might involve:

• Time
• Place
• Situation
• Topic
• Speaker in a dialogue.

2.  Drafting in your favorite color is fine. However, crazy colors, sizes and font styles can distract from your ideas. Please change your text to:

Black

Size 14

Times New Roman

3. Titles are important. The title is your first opportunity to engage the reader and get them interested in your story.  Here are a few ideas for coming up with an engaging title. 

 Need an idea? View titles from last year. When you have a good one, POST YOUR TITLE HERE.