Lesson Transcript Cite this lesson Instructor Heather Jenkins View bio Expert Contributor Sasha Blakeley View bio Learn about the sequence of events in a narrative and how to properly order events when writing. Discover how to organize a story, questions that can help put events in their...
See if you can find a sequence of events. You can use the events of a fairy tale, a recipe, a short story, or something else. Read through your chosen text more than once until you feel confident that you understand it. Next, write out each event in the sequence on a different piec...
Creative droughts represent long periods of being creatively blocked, which Cameron assures us occurs commonly in artists’ lives. However, lengthier stretches of being blocked can further compound our blocked state, because we tend to interpret the duration as a sign that our creativity is gone or...
Sequence words signal the sequence or order of events. They help the reader understand the order of events in a story or procedure. Sequence words are also called time order words or sequential transition words. Like other transition words, sequence words prevent choppy writing. In addition, they...