The top 3 insights I got from workshop today was on characterization, redundancy, and the conclusion. While analyzing Maddie's narrative, she chose to characterize her friend more than her, so in the end, we knew more about her friend than her. It was important to follow the mentor to an extent, but she also needed to add details about herself to help the reader understand who the narrator is. Redundancy is something that could add emphasis to a narrative, but too much slows the reader down and doesn't create an efficiently paced narrative. In Da In's narrative, she told us she had chicken pox quite a few times on the first page, however we already knew this from the title, so it was unnecessary to add these many details. Lastly, it's important to end your narrative well enough so the reader doesn't have many lingering questions. Back to Maddie's narrative, I had many questions when I read her narrative, mainly because it ended so abruptly and didn't provide...
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