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The way a writer uses language and literary devices to convey tone, mood, and atmosphere in a story.

Audience: Understanding who your audience is and how to write for them.
Voice: Developing a distinct writing voice that is unique to you.
Tone: Understanding how the tone of your writing can affect your audience's perception.
Imagery: The use of descriptive and sensory details to paint a picture for the reader.
Metaphor and simile: Using comparisons to convey a message or emotion.
Syntax: How to structure sentences to create a desired effect or emotion.
Dialogue: Writing convincing and interesting dialogue that adds depth to characters and plot.
Character development: Creating realistic, relatable, and memorable characters.
Setting: Establishing a sense of place and atmosphere in your writing.
Plot: Understanding how to structure a story to keep the reader engaged.
Conflict: Adding tension and conflict to your story to make it more engaging.
Point of View: Choosing the right perspective to tell your story.
Theme: Developing a central theme or message in your writing.
Pacing: The speed at which your story develops and how it affects the reader's experience.
Grammar and punctuation: The basic rules of grammar and punctuation to make your writing clear and concise.
Editing: The process of reviewing and revising your writing to improve it.
Poetry: Poetry is a form of creative writing that uses language to evoke emotions or ideas. It usually contains rhythmic and/or metrical language, and can be written in various forms such as sonnets, haikus, or free verse.
Drama: Drama is a type of creative writing that is meant to be performed on stage. It involves dialogue, action, and characters, and typically follows a plot structure.
Screenwriting: Screenwriting is a form of creative writing that is meant to be produced for film or television. It follows similar principles to drama, but usually involves more visual elements and attention to camera shots.
Fiction: Fiction is a broad category that includes various types of creative writing such as short stories, novels, and novellas. It involves developing characters, plots, and settings, and can be written in different genres such as sci-fi, romance, or horror.
Non-fiction: Non-fiction is a form of creative writing that is based on real events or people. It can include memoirs, autobiographies, essays, and journalism. Non-fiction often employs elements of storytelling, but with a focus on factual accuracy.
Prose: Prose is a type of writing that is structured in sentences and paragraphs, and doesn't have a specific poetic form. It can include both fiction and non-fiction.
Scriptwriting: This type of creative writing involves writing scripts for plays, television shows, movies or other performing arts. Scriptwriting is similar to screenwriting but can also include writing for theater performances or radio dramas.
Creative Non-Fiction: This style incorporates real events and people, but presents them in a creative and engaging way to make them more appealing to readers. It includes memoirs, personal essays, and literary journalism.
Hybrid Writing: Hybrid writing blends different genres and forms of creative writing. It can involve incorporating elements of poetry in prose or using non-fiction elements in fiction, or vice versa.
Flash Fiction: Flash fiction is a type of creative writing that tells a complete story with a very limited number of words, usually under 1,000 words.
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"A narrative technique is used in the making of a narrative to relay information to the audience and particularly to develop the narrative."
"A narrative technique is used to make the narrative more complete, complex, or interesting."
"A narrative technique is known for literary fictional narratives as a literary technique, literary device, or fictional device."
"Narrative techniques are distinguished from narrative elements, which exist inherently in all works of narrative."
"A narrative technique is known for literary fictional narratives."
"A narrative technique is used to make the narrative more complete, complex, or interesting."
"Some scholars also call this technique a narrative mode."
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"This term can also more narrowly refer to the particular technique of using commentary to tell a story."
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"A narrative technique is used in the making of a narrative to relay information to the audience."
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