Davies M.

Imagine that you are about to embark on a journey back to your hometown, a place you left behind long ago. Your task is to write a narrative essay that reads like a fiction short story. In your essay, vividly capture the emotions, sights, sounds, and experiences you encounter upon your return.

For this project, you will develop three of your “The Time When’s in order to create a story-in-fragments. You’ll want to construct scenes rather than summaries of emotional states. Don’t tell us how it felt; show us what happened so that we may feel it too. This is achieved through the application of creative-writing techniques (sensory detail, setting, character, dialogue) in what we call “creative nonfiction”—real stories that are told like fiction.There’s only one catch: You cannot tell us what the connection between these stories is. We should be able to feel the connection, but you cannot state it outright.