There was no place else to go. We ran straight up the bumper of Jerry's dad's brand new red Blazer and clung together on the top of the roof while the dogs jumped and growled, making deep scratches on the Blazer's sides as they tried to reach us. Narration Narration is a description of something that has happened. The advice about details in the section above applies just as well to narration as to description. The organization of a piece of narration is discussed in the lesson called Chronological Patterns .
Narration is the most inherently interesting form of writing.
That is why the lead-in for most writing in popular souces is narrative. We are baited in with the story and stay for the analysis or statistics. Narration is also usually a well-developed strength in most people's speaking, a strength which can profitably be applied to writing. Let me illustrate what I mean by the artistic telling of stories, which most people excel at. Your friend James also gets one.