Our writing group met in the Atkins Library on Tuesday morning. Right away we began the search for a mentor text that would support our writing. On the elevator, we decided to look on the 6th floor in the General Collection section and see what we could find.
After browsing the 6th floor for a while, we did an online search for books about narratives and writing narratives. After getting our search results, we headed to the section that had the books we were looking for.
We began to look through some of these books, but couldn't find anything to try to imitate the style of or easily borrow elements from.
I eventually came across a book titled Narrative Comprehension, which was more helpful than others because it listed tools to use while writing narratives, then showed them being used in examples. We ended up not using this book to write beside.
We finally decided to use a book titled There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbor's Baby, which was actually a book of fairy tales.
We ended up using a short story called Incident at Sokolniki to write beside. It was a strange scary story about a woman who is haunted in a dream by her husband who had died in a plane crash and has to go bury him. We thought this story would be useful for us to try to imitate the style of because of its unique way of recalling events in an attention-grabbing way. The author of the story displayed some of the advice we've been listening to about how to keep the reader interested and eager to find out what happens next. I feel like I'll be able to borrow elements and ideas from this text while revising my literacy narrative.
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