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Narrative

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Put events in an order someone else can follow.

Four steps in a row: an arch, a gate, a walk, a bowl.
  1. 01Learn
  2. 02Spot
  3. 03Make

A narrative tells what happened: who was there, where, what snagged, and what the choices did. You do not announce the lesson in sentence one. If the order is wrong, the listener cannot see which action caused which result.

The parts

People and place. The trouble. What you did. What it came to. A moral pasted on top of a scrambled timeline is a lecture, not a narrative.