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Tom Robertson, September 29, 2021, Kathmandu

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Writing Journeys series editor Tom Robertson provides a list of easy tips on how to write better argumentative essays and opinion pieces for newspapers.

At first, I was surprised that, of the many Nepali-language Youtube videos that I’ve made about writing, the most popular was also the longest — a video called Easy Excellent Essays . Once I thought more, though, it became less surprising; writing essays is important and hard. And in schools, most Nepalis don’t get much hands-on essay writing practice. Fortunately, there are several easy-to-learn principles that make writing excellent essays much easier.

Here are some common questions that people ask me about essays.

How did you learn to write argument essays?

I got a lot of practice in my 11th-grade social studies class. All year, we never faced regular tests, only essay exams. I probably wrote 8 or 10 essays that year and prepared to write three times as many. That gave me a lot of practice with the concise five-paragraph essay: introduction, three body paragraphs, and conclusion.

That model works well with short articles. But I’ve found that the same writing concepts help with longer articles, journal articles, and even whole books (and also with presentations .) My PhD dissertation, which eventually became a published book, is nothing more than a whole lot of five- , six- , and seven-paragraph essays woven together into nine chapters.

What is the best way to start an opinion essay?

The first one or two paragraphs are crucial. With short articles, such as an opinion article for the newspaper, I often read just one or two paragraphs and then ask myself, “Is it worth reading this article?” I’m busy and picky. If I can’t tell what the essay is about, or if I think it’s saying something obvious or not new, or if I think the author is not careful with words, I give up partway and move to another article.

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Do you start with your main point right away?

That is one effective approach, either right away or at the end of a paragraph that introduces the main topic. In fact, that’s the classic way to start a short argumentative essay such as an op-ed article — with an intro paragraph highlighting the main argument.

The US military has a term for this: BLUF, or Bottom Line Up Front. Putting the main argument — what you are trying to prove — early makes it much easier for readers. One of the most common mistakes in newspaper op-ed articles is to not make the argument clear early on. Similarly, in an academic article, a big blunder is to jump to the evidence without setting up the question and clarifying the overall argument in an introductory paragraph. For both, I recommend summarizing the main point in a single crystal-clear sentence such as “While X and Y have argued Z, I will argue A and B.”

What about a hook?

I also often start an essay with a ‘hook’ — something to pull in readers — usually an interesting story or a startling statistic or really engaging quotation. But if I do, I’m careful to be concise. Tell your story quickly and clearly, then give the essay’s main topic and your main argument. There’s nothing worse than a long-winded opening to an essay that attempts to be interesting but fails because it doesn’t get to the topic or main argument quickly enough. Unless you are an exceptionally skilled storyteller, hooks must be very clear and very quick. Readers want to know where they are going.

Some people suggest ending the essay similarly to the way you start. What do you think?

That’s effective and easy to do. You can start a personal essay for a college or graduate essay about some life-altering, near-fatal experience you had, move on to other topics in the middle of the essay, and then in the essay’s last sentences, quickly remind readers of the life-altering, near-fatal story again. Doing this can be very powerful. It brings things full circle. It shows how far we’ve come in the essay. It feels elegant. That’s why you see the method often. It works well in op-eds too.

This long-form opinion piece by Sarita Pariyar uses this technique very well: ‘ The old weight of caste ’.

For another example in a long essay, see how I start and end my 5,000-word essay in Nepali Times , ‘ The monsoon, and nature’s arithmetic ’.

This easy and effective writing technique shows a defining feature of essays — that the material in them “holds together.” Everything — the beginning, middle, and end — is somehow connected to a single question or theme. The fancy name for this is ‘coherence’. An essay is not a list — a loosely connected collection of info — but a more focused set of interlinked facts, info, and opinion. The key concept is interconnection. Starting and ending with the same story or theme shows this concept well.

Ok, you’ve got us through the introduction. What then?

Next come body paragraphs or body sections. Generally two-to-four of each but sometimes more. Here, my advice is short paragraphs with the main point at the beginning. A new paragraph signals to readers that a new idea is coming. Don’t keep them guessing what it is. Bottom Line Up Front. BLUF.

When you say short, how short do you mean?

One-to-four sentences for newspaper articles. A little longer for academic writing. Most academic articles have paragraphs that are way too long. Most readers get lost or bored or both. Nothing helped my writing more than learning to write focused paragraphs. One paragraph equals one idea.

How do you order the body paragraphs?

Generally, either thematically or chronologically. Follow the same order as in the introduction — or fix the introduction so it mimics the order of paragraphs. That makes it much easier for readers. Otherwise, it’s like light switches that don’t align with the lights they turn on — it’s counterintuitive and confusing.

The key thing is that there needs to be a logical order and you need to show it to the readers. If your structure is logical but the readers can’t actually see the logic, that’s not very helpful. You want to build your argument, step by step. It’s often effective to use numbers to organize your paragraphs.

I hear you have a good metaphor for thinking about the essay writer’s role.

I find it helpful to think about an essay as a journey or trip for the readers. Readers start in one location and move to three or four other places. Then they arrive at a final location.

Your job, as author, is to be the tour guide. At the beginning, explain where you are going and why. That’s the essay’s introduction. Why should readers care? Then actually take them to several locations and explain what they should be looking at and why. Each stopping point is a body paragraph. Make sure readers don’t get lost. Make sure they know what they are looking at.

The best tour guides know where readers might get confused and so they make the right path very clear. But once readers know where they are, the best tour guides get out of the way, so as not to distract from or block what’s important.

At the end of the trip, the tour guide helps readers make sense of the trip, to find meaning in what they saw. That’s the essay’s conclusion. After a journey, it is often useful to look back to where you started and remind readers of what you talked about at the beginning of the journey, and each step of the way.

What is your approach to transitions?

The most effective transitions involve no special transition words. Instead, they rely upon logic that is so clear that even without help readers can easily see the necessary jumps from topic to topic. Sometimes all they need is the paragraph break that says ‘Hey reader, here comes a new idea’.

But, and this is crucial, especially when there’s a change in time or place or argument, readers need more help. The best transitions provide clarity about the new context and do so quickly: “In nineteenth century France, …” Or, “In India in the 1970s,…” What a great transition! Clear and quick, right at the beginning. Along these lines, I love using the word “but” or “yet” at a paragraph’s beginning as a signpost. One short word says so much.

How do you make an essay interesting? How do you keep readers wanting to read on?

In each and every paragraph I ask myself this question. I’m always thinking about the reader and how to keep him or her interested.

One thing that helps far more than you might realize is keeping things concise. Keep paragraphs short and focused. Cut the unnecessary words. Most first and second drafts are way too loooooong. [See my tips on writing concisely ‘ Less is more ’.]

For content: Don’t state the obvious. Pay attention to what surprises you. If you find it surprising, your readers probably will too. Ask a probing question. Create a mystery or puzzle to solve. Collect startling statistics and powerful quotations. Build paragraphs around them. I often think of my essays as a trip from one juicy quotation to another, from one interesting person’s views to another. My essay is really not much more than several great quotes strung together.

One final note: It’s helpful to pay attention to what makes engaging writing engaging. I love Roy Peter Clark’s advice on this: Whenever you can’t put a book down, put it down and analyze what makes it so interesting.

Is it ok to repeat things?

Except in one situation, repetition is boring, and deadening. Weed it out of every sentence. Adding words that don’t add much — what is called ‘wordiness’ — makes reading your sentences a chore. Inexperienced writers sometimes use two words when one is actually more powerful. Same for sentences. In some drafts, I cut every other sentence because all they do is repeat the previous sentences.

The exception is when you’ve gone on for a while and readers might get confused by all the details and lose track of the larger argument. In those moments, a little repetition from the author — Hey forgetful reader, again, here’s why this long story is so important — can be a lifesaver. I think of this as ‘strategic repetition’. The best writers can do this orienting, reminding work with just a word or two or quick list.

When you sit down to write, do you actually write the way you describe here? Do you really write that way?

No, not at all. What I describe here is how I re-write and re-re-write. When I write, I often have a rough outline, a narrative arc, and several juicy quotes and startling statistics in mind. I turn each quotation or two into a paragraph, then decide the most logical order. Often, it’s not until the end that I realize my overall argument — often, it comes out most clearly in the last few paragraphs. And only then do I go back and write my introduction, making sure my topic and my main argument is clear from the beginning. I usually can’t write that introduction until I’ve done at least a first draft.

After a draft is complete I look at everything I’ve got again and again from the perspective of the imagined reader to see if it’s clear. I value clarity above all else. I make a new outline (a ‘reverse’ outline) to make sure that what I’m trying to say is clear and where I want it. I always do several drafts and, if it’s important, I always show it to someone else for feedback.

What is your favorite tip for essays?

I think I’ve given most of them: hook, BLUF, short paragraphs, great quotes, remember the reader, cut, cut, cut, and, of course, strategic repetition.

How should you conclude an argument essay?

Because newspaper articles often follow different rules than essays, they often end with a reminder or gesture toward the article’s main point but try to end with a bang — what they call a ‘kicker’ — a powerful quotation or witty line.

But classic essays, op-ed articles, and academic articles need to spotlight the argument. In the conclusion, the main goal is to clearly re-iterate the main argument and show how things fit together. You don’t want readers to leave the article with some confusion about exactly what your main point is. That is the biggest possible blunder.

In my view, with the conclusion, it’s much better to be clear even if a little repetitive. That’s much better than being elegant but confusing. That said, there are ways to remind of your main argument and its importance in artful, elegant, memorable ways.

I recommend studying how authors end their articles and essays in different contexts. Collect and study the best strategies for ending effectively.

Resources and links

See Mitho Lekhai Youtube video: Easy Excellent Essays ( Full and Short versions)
See Mitho Lekhai Youtube video: Juicy Wild Dogs (Analysis of an excellent article)
‘ Man’s Best Friend ’ (Sample 5-paragraph essay)
Macalester College one-minute videos on writing

Recommended Essays

Sarita Pariyar, ‘ The media’s portrayal of Dalits is incomplete ’, The Kathmandu Post , 2020.
Sujeev Shakya, ‘ Change begins at home: The way the government functions is a reflection on Nepali society ’, The Kathmandu Post , 2020.
Kunti Adhikary, ‘ Multiple realities ’, The Kathmandu Post , 2018.
Shradha Ghale, ‘ Men in green ’, The Kathmandu Post , 2018.
Prashanta Khanal, ‘ Rethinking Kathmandu ’, The Record , 2020.
Deepak Thapa, ‘ The eternal dream of self-government ’, The Kathmandu Post, 2020.

Footnote. This article was first published as part of a book.

Tom Robertson Tom Robertson, PhD, is an environmental historian who writes about Kathmandu and Nepali history. His Nepali-language video series on writing, 'Mitho Lekhai', is available on Youtube. His most recent article, 'No smoke without fire in Kathmandu’, appeared on March 5 in Nepali Times.

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A Comprehensive Guide to Saying Hello in Nepali Language

Greetings play an essential role in establishing connections and fostering positive relationships with people. In Nepal, a country of rich cultural diversity, the way you say hello can vary depending on the formality, region, and the people you are interacting with. In this guide, we will explore the different ways to say hello in Nepali, including formal and informal variations, along with a few tips and examples to help you navigate through this beautiful language.

Formal Greetings

In formal situations, such as in professional settings or when addressing older people or people you’ve just met, it is crucial to use appropriate levels of respect and politeness. Here are a few ways to say hello formally in Nepali:

1. “Namaste”

The most common and widely used greeting in Nepal is “Namaste,” which carries a deep spiritual and respectful meaning. It is used both as a hello and goodbye. To greet someone formally, you can simply say “Namaste” with your palms pressed together in a prayer-like gesture, known as “namaste mudra.” This gesture signifies respect and reflects the cultural values of Nepal.

2. “Namaskar”

Similar to “Namaste,” “Namaskar” is another formal way to greet someone respectfully. It is slightly more sophisticated and often used in official or ceremonious situations. To greet someone with “Namaskar,” you can also perform the namaste mudra.

Informal Greetings

In Nepali culture, informal greetings are commonly used among close friends, family members, or people of similar age. These greetings are more relaxed and reflect a friendly connection. Let’s explore some informal ways to say hello:

1. “K cha?”

When greeting friends or peers, a common way to say hello in Nepali is by asking “K cha?” which translates to “How are you?” This greeting often goes beyond a simple hello, as it expresses a genuine interest in the other person’s well-being. It allows for a more spirited exchange of greetings among friends.

2. “Sanchai cha?”

Another informal way to greet someone is by asking “Sanchai cha?” which means “Are you fine?” This greeting is more casual and is commonly used in informal settings like among friends or acquaintances. It shows concern for the other person’s welfare while maintaining a friendly tone.

Regional Variations

In Nepal, each region may have its own unique way of saying hello. While the formal and informal greetings mentioned above are widely used across the country, it’s essential to acknowledge some regional variations:

1. Eastern Nepal

In the eastern region of Nepal, particularly in places like Ilam or Jhapa, people often add the word “Hajur” before their greetings. For example: “Hajur, Namaste” or “Hajur, Namaskar.” This addition adds a touch of politeness and respect to the greeting.

2. Western Nepal

In the western region, such as in cities like Pokhara or Surkhet, people often greet by saying “Ram Ram.” This greeting is more prevalent among older generations and in rural areas, where it’s considered a polite way to say hello.

Tips and Etiquette

Here are a few tips and etiquette to keep in mind when greeting others in Nepal:

1. Greet with a Smile

A warm and genuine smile goes a long way when greeting someone in Nepal. It displays your friendliness and openness to connect with others.

2. Use Appropriate Titles

When addressing someone formally, it is respectful to use appropriate titles such as “Sir” or “Madam” followed by their last name. This shows your politeness and acknowledgment of their status.

3. Accept Greetings with Respect

When someone greets you, it is customary to respond with an equally respectful greeting. Refrain from ignoring or dismissing greetings, as it may be considered impolite.

“Greet people with warmth, courtesy, and a genuine interest in their well-being.”

Let’s explore a few examples of how to say hello in different situations:

1. Formal Examples:

Meeting a business professional: “Namaste, Sir/Madam. How are you today?”
Greeting an elderly person: “Namaskar, Aunt/Uncle. I hope you are doing well.”

2. Informal Examples:

Greeting a friend: “K cha? How’s everything going?”
Greeting a colleague: “Sanchai cha? Ready for another productive day?”

Remember, the tone and attitude matter as much as the words themselves when greeting others.

With this comprehensive guide, you are now equipped with various ways to say hello in Nepali, both formally and informally. Adapting your greetings to the appropriate level of formality or the region you are in showcases your cultural sensitivity and respect for Nepali traditions. So, go ahead, greet people with warmth, and embrace the diverse linguistic tapestry of Nepal!

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When writing an essay about yourself, it is crucial to take the time to reflect deeply on your life experiences, values, beliefs, and goals. Consider the events that have shaped you into the person you are today, both positive and negative. Think about your strengths and weaknesses, your passions and interests, and how they have influenced your decisions and actions. Reflecting on your personal journey will help you uncover meaningful insights that can make your essay more compelling and authentic.

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Emphasize the lessons you’ve learned from your experiences and how they have shaped your character and outlook on life. Connect these insights to your personal growth and development, demonstrating your resilience, determination, and self-awareness. End your essay on a reflective note, highlighting the impact of your journey on who you are today and what you aspire to achieve in the future. By following a strong narrative structure, you can craft a captivating essay that showcases your authenticity and leaves a lasting impression on the readers.

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Why do we write personal narratives, 6 guidelines for writing personal narrative essays, inspiring personal narratives, examples of personal narrative essays, tell your story.

First off, you might be wondering: what is a personal narrative? In short, personal narratives are stories we tell about ourselves that focus on our growth, lessons learned, and reflections on our experiences.

From stories about inspirational figures we heard as children to any essay, article, or exercise where we're asked to express opinions on a situation, thing, or individual—personal narratives are everywhere.

According to Psychology Today, personal narratives allow authors to feel and release pains, while savouring moments of strength and resilience. Such emotions provide an avenue for both authors and readers to connect while supporting healing in the process.

That all sounds great. But when it comes to putting the words down on paper, we often end up with a list of experiences and no real structure to tie them together.

In this article, we'll discuss what a personal narrative essay is further, learn the 6 steps to writing one, and look at some examples of great personal narratives.

As readers, we're fascinated by memoirs, autobiographies, and long-form personal narrative articles, as they provide a glimpse into the authors' thought processes, ideas, and feelings. But you don't have to be writing your whole life story to create a personal narrative.

You might be a student writing an admissions essay , or be trying to tell your professional story in a cover letter. Regardless of your purpose, your narrative will focus on personal growth, reflections, and lessons.

Personal narratives help us connect with other people's stories due to their easy-to-digest format and because humans are empathising creatures.

We can better understand how others feel and think when we were told stories that allow us to see the world from their perspectives. The author's "I think" and "I feel" instantaneously become ours, as the brain doesn't know whether what we read is real or imaginary.

In her best-selling book Wired for Story, Lisa Cron explains that the human brain craves tales as it's hard-wired through evolution to learn what happens next. Since the brain doesn't know whether what you are reading is actual or not, we can register the moral of the story cognitively and affectively.

In academia, a narrative essay tells a story which is experiential, anecdotal, or personal. It allows the author to creatively express their thoughts, feelings, ideas, and opinions. Its length can be anywhere from a few paragraphs to hundreds of pages.

Outside of academia, personal narratives are known as a form of journalism or non-fiction works called "narrative journalism." Even highly prestigious publications like the New York Times and Time magazine have sections dedicated to personal narratives. The New Yorke is a magazine dedicated solely to this genre.

The New York Times holds personal narrative essay contests. The winners are selected because they:

had a clear narrative arc with a conflict and a main character who changed in some way. They artfully balanced the action of the story with reflection on what it meant to the writer. They took risks, like including dialogue or playing with punctuation, sentence structure and word choice to develop a strong voice. And, perhaps most important, they focused on a specific moment or theme – a conversation, a trip to the mall, a speech tournament, a hospital visit – instead of trying to sum up the writer’s life in 600 words.

In a nutshell, a personal narrative can cover any reflective and contemplative subject with a strong voice and a unique perspective, including uncommon private values. It's written in first person and the story encompasses a specific moment in time worthy of a discussion.

Writing a personal narrative essay involves both objectivity and subjectivity. You'll need to be objective enough to recognise the importance of an event or a situation to explore and write about. On the other hand, you must be subjective enough to inject private thoughts and feelings to make your point.

With personal narratives, you are both the muse and the creator – you have control over how your story is told. However, like any other type of writing, it comes with guidelines.

1. Write Your Personal Narrative as a Story

As a story, it must include an introduction, characters, plot, setting, climax, anti-climax (if any), and conclusion. Another way to approach it is by structuring it with an introduction, body, and conclusion. The introduction should set the tone, while the body should focus on the key point(s) you want to get across. The conclusion can tell the reader what lessons you have learned from the story you've just told.

2. Give Your Personal Narrative a Clear Purpose

Your narrative essay should reflect your unique perspective on life. This is a lot harder than it sounds. You need to establish your perspective, the key things you want your reader to take away, and your tone of voice. It's a good idea to have a set purpose in mind for the narrative before you start writing.

Let's say you want to write about how you manage depression without taking any medicine. This could go in any number of ways, but isolating a purpose will help you focus your writing and choose which stories to tell. Are you advocating for a holistic approach, or do you want to describe your emotional experience for people thinking of trying it?

Having this focus will allow you to put your own unique take on what you did (and didn't do, if applicable), what changed you, and the lessons learned along the way.

3. Show, Don't Tell

It's a narration, so the narrative should show readers what happened, instead of telling them. As well as being a storyteller, the author should take part as one of the characters. Keep this in mind when writing, as the way you shape your perspective can have a big impact on how your reader sees your overarching plot. Don't slip into just explaining everything that happened because it happened to you. Show your reader with action.

You can check for instances of telling rather than showing with ProWritingAid. For example, instead of:

"You never let me do anything!" I cried disdainfully.

"You never let me do anything!" To this day, my mother swears that the glare I levelled at her as I spat those words out could have soured milk.

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4. Use "I," But Don't Overuse It

You, the author, take ownership of the story, so the first person pronoun "I" is used throughout. However, you shouldn't overuse it, as it'd make it sound too self-centred and redundant.

ProWritingAid can also help you here – the Style Report will tell you if you've started too many sentences with "I", and show you how to introduce more variation in your writing.

5. Pay Attention to Tenses

Tense is key to understanding. Personal narratives mostly tell the story of events that happened in the past, so many authors choose to use the past tense. This helps separate out your current, narrating voice and your past self who you are narrating. If you're writing in the present tense, make sure that you keep it consistent throughout.

6. Make Your Conclusion Satisfying

Satisfy your readers by giving them an unforgettable closing scene. The body of the narration should build up the plot to climax. This doesn't have to be something incredible or shocking, just something that helps give an interesting take on your story.

The takeaways or the lessons learned should be written without lecturing. Whenever possible, continue to show rather than tell. Don't say what you learned, narrate what you do differently now. This will help the moral of your story shine through without being too preachy.

GoodReads is a great starting point for selecting read-worthy personal narrative books. Here are five of my favourites.

Owl Moon by Jane Yolen

Jane Yolen, the author of 386 books, wrote this poetic story about a daughter and her father who went owling. Instead of learning about owls, Yolen invites readers to contemplate the meaning of gentleness and hope.

Night by Elie Wiesel

Elie Wiesel was a teenager when he and his family were sent to Auschwitz concentration camp in 1944. This Holocaust memoir has a strong message that such horrific events should never be repeated.

The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank

This classic is a must-read by young and old alike. It's a remarkable diary by a 13-year-old Jewish girl who hid inside a secret annexe of an old building during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands in 1942.

The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion

This is a personal narrative written by a brave author renowned for her clarity, passion, and honesty. Didion shares how in December 2003, she lost her husband of 40 years to a massive heart attack and dealt with the acute illness of her only daughter. She speaks about grief, memories, illness, and hope.

Educated by Tara Westover

Author Tara Westover was raised by survivalist parents. She didn't go to school until 17 years of age, which later took her to Harvard and Cambridge. It's a story about the struggle for quest for knowledge and self-reinvention.

Narrative and personal narrative journalism are gaining more popularity these days. You can find distinguished personal narratives all over the web.

Curating the best of the best of personal narratives and narrative essays from all over the web. Some are award-winning articles.

Narratively

Long-form writing to celebrate humanity through storytelling. It publishes personal narrative essays written to provoke, inspire, and reflect, touching lesser-known and overlooked subjects.

Narrative Magazine

It publishes non,fiction narratives, poetry, and fiction. Among its contributors is Frank Conroy, the author of Stop-Time , a memoir that has never been out of print since 1967.

Thought Catalog

Aimed at Generation Z, it publishes personal narrative essays on self-improvement, family, friendship, romance, and others.

Personal narratives will continue to be popular as our brains are wired for stories. We love reading about others and telling stories of ourselves, as they bring satisfaction and a better understanding of the world around us.

Personal narratives make us better humans. Enjoy telling yours!

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10 Personal Narrative Examples to Inspire Your Writing

Personal narratives are short pieces of creative nonfiction that recount a story from someone’s own experiences. They can be a memoir, a thinkpiece, or even a polemic — so long as the piece is grounded in the writer's beliefs and experiences, it can be considered a personal narrative.

Despite the nonfiction element, there’s no single way to approach this topic, and you can be as creative as you would be writing fiction. To inspire your writing and reveal the sheer diversity of this type of essay, here are ten great examples personal narratives from recent years:

1. “Only Disconnect” by Gary Shteyngart

Personal narratives don’t have to be long to be effective, as this thousand-word gem from the NYT book review proves. Published in 2010, just as smartphones were becoming a ubiquitous part of modern life, this piece echoes many of our fears surrounding technology and how it often distances us from reality.

In this narrative, Shteyngart navigates Manhattan using his new iPhone—or more accurately, is led by his iPhone, completely oblivious to the world around him. He’s completely lost to the magical happenstance of the city as he “follow[s] the arrow taco-ward”. But once he leaves for the country, and abandons the convenience of a cell phone connection, the real world comes rushing back in and he remembers what he’s been missing out on.

The downfalls of technology is hardly a new topic, but Shteyngart’s story remains evergreen because of how our culture has only spiraled further down the rabbit hole of technology addiction in the intervening years.

What can you learn from this piece?

Just because a piece of writing is technically nonfiction, that doesn’t mean that the narrative needs to be literal. Shteyngart imagines a Manhattan that physically changes around him when he’s using his iPhone, becoming an almost unrecognizable world. From this, we can see how a certain amount of dramatization can increase the impact of your message—even if that wasn’t exactly the way something happened.

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2. “Why I Hate Mother's Day” by Anne Lamott

The author of the classic writing text Bird by Bird digs into her views on motherhood in this piece from Salon. At once a personal narrative and a cultural commentary, Lamott explores the harmful effects that Mother’s Day may have on society —how its blind reverence to the concept of motherhood erases women’s agency and freedom to be flawed human beings.

Lamott points out that not all mothers are good, not everyone has a living mother to celebrate, and some mothers have lost their children, so have no one to celebrate with them. More importantly, she notes how this Hallmark holiday erases all the people who helped raise a woman, a long chain of mothers and fathers, friends and found family, who enable her to become a mother. While it isn’t anchored to a single story or event (like many classic personal narratives), Lamott’s exploration of her opinions creates a story about a culture that puts mothers on an impossible pedestal.

In a personal narrative essay, lived experience can be almost as valid as peer-reviewed research—so long as you avoid making unfounded assumptions. While some might point out that this is merely an opinion piece, Lamott cannily starts the essay by grounding it in the personal, revealing how she did not raise her son to celebrate Mother’s Day. This detail, however small, invites the reader into her private life and frames this essay as a story about her —and not just an exercise in being contrary.

3. “The Crane Wife” by CJ Hauser

Days after breaking off her engagement with her fiance, CJ Hauser joins a scientific expedition on the Texas coast r esearching whooping cranes . In this new environment, she reflects on the toxic relationship she left and how she found herself in this situation. She pulls together many seemingly disparate threads, using the expedition and the Japanese myth of the crane wife as a metaphor for her struggles.

Hauser’s interactions with the other volunteer researchers expand the scope of the narrative from her own mind, reminding her of the compassion she lacked in her relationship. In her attempts to make herself smaller, less needy, to please her fiance, she lost sight of herself and almost signed up to live someone else’s life, but among the whooping cranes of Texas, she takes the first step in reconnecting with herself.

With short personal narratives, there isn’t as much room to develop characters as you might have in a memoir so the details you do provide need to be clear and specific. Each of the volunteer researchers on Hauser’s expedition are distinct and recognizable though Hauser is economical in her descriptions.

For example, Hauser describes one researcher as “an eighty-four-year-old bachelor from Minnesota. He could not do most of the physical activities required by the trip, but had been on ninety-five Earthwatch expeditions, including this one once before. Warren liked birds okay. What Warren really loved was cocktail hour.”

In a few sentences, we get a clear picture of Warren's fun-loving, gregarious personality and how he fits in with the rest of the group.

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4. “The Trash Heap Has Spoken” by Carmen Maria Machado

The films and TV shows of the 80s and 90s—cultural touchstones that practically raised a generation—hardly ever featured larger women on screen. And if they did, it was either as a villain or a literal trash heap. Carmen Maria Machado grew up watching these cartoons, and the absence of fat women didn’t faze her. Not until puberty hit and she went from a skinny kid to a fuller-figured teen. Suddenly uncomfortable in her skin, she struggled to find any positive representation in her favorite media.

As she gets older and more comfortable in her own body, Machado finds inspiration in Marjory the Trash Heap from Fraggle Rock and Ursula, everyone’s favorite sea witch from The Little Mermaid —characters with endless power in the unapologetic ways they inhabit their bodies. As Machado considers her own body through the years, it’s these characters she returns to as she faces society’s unkind, dismissive attitudes towards fat women.

Stories shape the world, even if they’re fictional. Some writers strive for realism, reflecting the world back on itself in all its ugliness, but Carmen Maria Machado makes a different point. There is power in being imaginative and writing the world as it could be, imagining something bigger, better, and more beautiful. So, write the story you want to see, change the narrative, look at it sideways, and show your readers how the world could look.

5. “Am I Disabled?” by Joanne Limburg

The titular question frames the narrative of Joanne Limburg’s essay as she considers the implications of disclosing her autism. What to some might seem a mundane occurrence—ticking ‘yes’, ‘no’, or ‘prefer not to say’ on a bureaucratic form—elicits both philosophical and practical questions for Limburg about what it means to be disabled and how disability is viewed by the majority of society.

Is the labor of disclosing her autism worth the insensitive questions she has to answer? What definition are people seeking, exactly? Will anyone believe her if she says yes? As she dissects the question of what disability is, she explores the very real personal effects this has on her life and those of other disabled people.

Limburg’s essay is written in a style known as the hermit crab essay , when an author uses an existing document form to contain their story. You can format your writing as a recipe, a job application, a resume, an email, or a to-do list – the possibilities are as endless as your creativity. The format you choose is important, though. It should connect in some way to the story you’re telling and add something to the reader’s experience as well as your overall theme.

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6. “Living Like Weasels” by Annie Dillard

While out on a walk in the woods behind her house, Annie Dillard encounters a wild weasel. In the short moment when they make eye contact, Dillard takes an imaginary journey through the weasel’s mind and wonders if the weasel’s approach to life is better than her own.

The weasel, as Dillard sees it, is a wild creature with jaws so powerful that when it clamps on to something, it won’t let go, even into death. Necessity drives it to be like this, and humanity, obsessed with choice, might think this kind of life is limiting, but the writer believes otherwise. The weasel’s necessity is the ultimate freedom, as long as you can find the right sort, the kind that will have you holding on for dear life and refusing to let go.

Make yourself the National Geographic explorer of your backyard or neighborhood and see what you can learn about yourself from what you discover. Annie Dillard, queen of the natural personal essay, discovers a lot about herself and her beliefs when meeting a weasel.

What insight can you glean from a blade of grass, for example? Does it remind you that despite how similar people might be, we are all unique? Do the flights of migrating birds give you perspective on the changes in your own life? Nature is a potent and never-ending spring of inspiration if you only think to look.

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7. “Love In Our Seventies” by Ellery Akers

“ And sometimes, when I lift the gray hair at the back of your neck and kiss your shoulder, I think, This is it.”

In under 400 words, poet Ellery Akers captures the joy she has found in discovering romance as a 75-year-old . The language is romantic, but her imagery is far from saccharine as she describes their daily life and the various states in which they’ve seen each other: in their pajamas, after cataract surgeries, while meditating. In each singular moment, Akers sees something she loves, underscoring an oft-forgotten truth. Love is most potent in its smallest gestures.

Personal narrative isn’t a defined genre with rigid rules, so your essay doesn’t have to be an essay. It can be a poem, as Akers’ is. The limitations of this form can lead to greater creativity as you’re trying to find a short yet evocative way to tell a story. It allows you to focus deeply on the emotions behind an idea and create an intimate connection with your reader.

8. “What a Black Woman Wishes Her Adoptive White Parents Knew” by Mariama Lockington

Mariama Lockington was adopted by her white parents in the early 80s, long before it was “trendy” for white people to adopt black children. Starting with a family photograph, the writer explores her complex feelings about her upbringing , the many ways her parents ignored her race for their own comfort, and how she came to feel like an outsider in her own home. In describing her childhood snapshots, she takes the reader from infancy to adulthood as she navigates trying to live as a black woman in a white family.

Lockington takes us on a journey through her life through a series of vignettes. These small, important moments serve as a framing device, intertwining to create a larger narrative about race, family, and belonging.

With this framing device, it’s easy to imagine Lockington poring over a photo album, each picture conjuring a different memory and infusing her story with equal parts sadness, regret, and nostalgia. You can create a similar effect by separating your narrative into different songs to create an album or episodes in a TV show. A unique structure can add an extra layer to your narrative and enhance the overall story.

9. “Drinking Chai to Savannah” by Anjali Enjeti

On a trip to Savannah with her friends, Anjali Enjeti is reminded of a racist incident she experienced as a teenager . The memory is prompted by her discomfort of traveling in Georgia as a South Asian woman and her friends’ seeming obliviousness to how others view them. As she recalls the tense and traumatic encounter she had in line at a Wendy’s and the worry she experiences in Savannah, Enjeti reflects on her understanding of otherness and race in America.

Enjeti paints the scene in Wendy’s with a deft hand. Using descriptive language, she invokes the five senses to capture the stress and fear she felt when the men in line behind her were hurling racist sentiments.

She writes, “He moves closer. His shadow eclipses mine. His hot, tobacco-tinged breath seeps over the collar of my dress.” The strong, evocative language she uses brings the reader into the scene and has them experience the same anxiety she does, understanding why this incident deeply impacted her.

10. “Siri Tells A Joke” by Debra Gwartney

One day, Debra Gwartney asks Siri—her iPhone’s digital assistant—to tell her a joke. In reply, Siri recites a joke with a familiar setup about three men stuck on a desert island. When the punchline comes, Gwartney reacts not with laughter, but with a memory of her husband , who had died less than six months prior.

In a short period, Gwartney goes through a series of losses—first, her house and her husband’s writing archives to a wildfire, and only a month after, her husband. As she reflects on death and the grief of those left behind in the wake of it, she recounts the months leading up to her husband’s passing and the interminable stretch after as she tries to find a way to live without him even as she longs for him.

A joke about three men on a deserted island seems like an odd setup for an essay about grief. However, Gwartney uses it to great effect, coming back to it later in the story and giving it greater meaning. By the end of her piece, she recontextualizes the joke, the original punchline suddenly becoming deeply sad. In taking something seemingly unrelated and calling back to it later, the essay’s message about grief and love becomes even more powerful.

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A narrative essay is one of the most intimidating assignments you can be handed at any level of your education. Where you've previously written argumentative essays that make a point or analytic essays that dissect meaning, a narrative essay asks you to write what is effectively a story .

But unlike a simple work of creative fiction, your narrative essay must have a clear and concrete motif —a recurring theme or idea that you’ll explore throughout. Narrative essays are less rigid, more creative in expression, and therefore pretty different from most other essays you’ll be writing.

But not to fear—in this article, we’ll be covering what a narrative essay is, how to write a good one, and also analyzing some personal narrative essay examples to show you what a great one looks like.

What Is a Narrative Essay?

At first glance, a narrative essay might sound like you’re just writing a story. Like the stories you're used to reading, a narrative essay is generally (but not always) chronological, following a clear throughline from beginning to end. Even if the story jumps around in time, all the details will come back to one specific theme, demonstrated through your choice in motifs.

Unlike many creative stories, however, your narrative essay should be based in fact. That doesn’t mean that every detail needs to be pure and untainted by imagination, but rather that you shouldn’t wholly invent the events of your narrative essay. There’s nothing wrong with inventing a person’s words if you can’t remember them exactly, but you shouldn’t say they said something they weren’t even close to saying.

Another big difference between narrative essays and creative fiction—as well as other kinds of essays—is that narrative essays are based on motifs. A motif is a dominant idea or theme, one that you establish before writing the essay. As you’re crafting the narrative, it’ll feed back into your motif to create a comprehensive picture of whatever that motif is.

For example, say you want to write a narrative essay about how your first day in high school helped you establish your identity. You might discuss events like trying to figure out where to sit in the cafeteria, having to describe yourself in five words as an icebreaker in your math class, or being unsure what to do during your lunch break because it’s no longer acceptable to go outside and play during lunch. All of those ideas feed back into the central motif of establishing your identity.

The important thing to remember is that while a narrative essay is typically told chronologically and intended to read like a story, it is not purely for entertainment value. A narrative essay delivers its theme by deliberately weaving the motifs through the events, scenes, and details. While a narrative essay may be entertaining, its primary purpose is to tell a complete story based on a central meaning.

Unlike other essay forms, it is totally okay—even expected—to use first-person narration in narrative essays. If you’re writing a story about yourself, it’s natural to refer to yourself within the essay. It’s also okay to use other perspectives, such as third- or even second-person, but that should only be done if it better serves your motif. Generally speaking, your narrative essay should be in first-person perspective.

Though your motif choices may feel at times like you’re making a point the way you would in an argumentative essay, a narrative essay’s goal is to tell a story, not convince the reader of anything. Your reader should be able to tell what your motif is from reading, but you don’t have to change their mind about anything. If they don’t understand the point you are making, you should consider strengthening the delivery of the events and descriptions that support your motif.

Narrative essays also share some features with analytical essays, in which you derive meaning from a book, film, or other media. But narrative essays work differently—you’re not trying to draw meaning from an existing text, but rather using an event you’ve experienced to convey meaning. In an analytical essay, you examine narrative, whereas in a narrative essay you create narrative.

The structure of a narrative essay is also a bit different than other essays. You’ll generally be getting your point across chronologically as opposed to grouping together specific arguments in paragraphs or sections. To return to the example of an essay discussing your first day of high school and how it impacted the shaping of your identity, it would be weird to put the events out of order, even if not knowing what to do after lunch feels like a stronger idea than choosing where to sit. Instead of organizing to deliver your information based on maximum impact, you’ll be telling your story as it happened, using concrete details to reinforce your theme.

3 Great Narrative Essay Examples

One of the best ways to learn how to write a narrative essay is to look at a great narrative essay sample. Let’s take a look at some truly stellar narrative essay examples and dive into what exactly makes them work so well.

A Ticket to the Fair by David Foster Wallace

Today is Press Day at the Illinois State Fair in Springfield, and I’m supposed to be at the fairgrounds by 9:00 A.M. to get my credentials. I imagine credentials to be a small white card in the band of a fedora. I’ve never been considered press before. My real interest in credentials is getting into rides and shows for free. I’m fresh in from the East Coast, for an East Coast magazine. Why exactly they’re interested in the Illinois State Fair remains unclear to me. I suspect that every so often editors at East Coast magazines slap their foreheads and remember that about 90 percent of the United States lies between the coasts, and figure they’ll engage somebody to do pith-helmeted anthropological reporting on something rural and heartlandish. I think they asked me to do this because I grew up here, just a couple hours’ drive from downstate Springfield. I never did go to the state fair, though—I pretty much topped out at the county fair level. Actually, I haven’t been back to Illinois for a long time, and I can’t say I’ve missed it.

Throughout this essay, David Foster Wallace recounts his experience as press at the Illinois State Fair. But it’s clear from this opening that he’s not just reporting on the events exactly as they happened—though that’s also true— but rather making a point about how the East Coast, where he lives and works, thinks about the Midwest.

In his opening paragraph, Wallace states that outright: “Why exactly they’re interested in the Illinois State Fair remains unclear to me. I suspect that every so often editors at East Coast magazines slap their foreheads and remember that about 90 percent of the United States lies between the coasts, and figure they’ll engage somebody to do pith-helmeted anthropological reporting on something rural and heartlandish.”

Not every motif needs to be stated this clearly , but in an essay as long as Wallace’s, particularly since the audience for such a piece may feel similarly and forget that such a large portion of the country exists, it’s important to make that point clear.

But Wallace doesn’t just rest on introducing his motif and telling the events exactly as they occurred from there. It’s clear that he selects events that remind us of that idea of East Coast cynicism , such as when he realizes that the Help Me Grow tent is standing on top of fake grass that is killing the real grass beneath, when he realizes the hypocrisy of craving a corn dog when faced with a real, suffering pig, when he’s upset for his friend even though he’s not the one being sexually harassed, and when he witnesses another East Coast person doing something he wouldn’t dare to do.

Wallace is literally telling the audience exactly what happened, complete with dates and timestamps for when each event occurred. But he’s also choosing those events with a purpose—he doesn’t focus on details that don’t serve his motif. That’s why he discusses the experiences of people, how the smells are unappealing to him, and how all the people he meets, in cowboy hats, overalls, or “black spandex that looks like cheesecake leotards,” feel almost alien to him.

All of these details feed back into the throughline of East Coast thinking that Wallace introduces in the first paragraph. He also refers back to it in the essay’s final paragraph, stating:

At last, an overarching theory blooms inside my head: megalopolitan East Coasters’ summer treats and breaks and literally ‘getaways,’ flights-from—from crowds, noise, heat, dirt, the stress of too many sensory choices….The East Coast existential treat is escape from confines and stimuli—quiet, rustic vistas that hold still, turn inward, turn away. Not so in the rural Midwest. Here you’re pretty much away all the time….Something in a Midwesterner sort of actuates , deep down, at a public event….The real spectacle that draws us here is us.

Throughout this journey, Wallace has tried to demonstrate how the East Coast thinks about the Midwest, ultimately concluding that they are captivated by the Midwest’s less stimuli-filled life, but that the real reason they are interested in events like the Illinois State Fair is that they are, in some ways, a means of looking at the East Coast in a new, estranging way.

The reason this works so well is that Wallace has carefully chosen his examples, outlined his motif and themes in the first paragraph, and eventually circled back to the original motif with a clearer understanding of his original point.

When outlining your own narrative essay, try to do the same. Start with a theme, build upon it with examples, and return to it in the end with an even deeper understanding of the original issue. You don’t need this much space to explore a theme, either—as we’ll see in the next example, a strong narrative essay can also be very short.

Death of a Moth by Virginia Woolf

After a time, tired by his dancing apparently, he settled on the window ledge in the sun, and, the queer spectacle being at an end, I forgot about him. Then, looking up, my eye was caught by him. He was trying to resume his dancing, but seemed either so stiff or so awkward that he could only flutter to the bottom of the window-pane; and when he tried to fly across it he failed. Being intent on other matters I watched these futile attempts for a time without thinking, unconsciously waiting for him to resume his flight, as one waits for a machine, that has stopped momentarily, to start again without considering the reason of its failure. After perhaps a seventh attempt he slipped from the wooden ledge and fell, fluttering his wings, on to his back on the window sill. The helplessness of his attitude roused me. It flashed upon me that he was in difficulties; he could no longer raise himself; his legs struggled vainly. But, as I stretched out a pencil, meaning to help him to right himself, it came over me that the failure and awkwardness were the approach of death. I laid the pencil down again.

In this essay, Virginia Woolf explains her encounter with a dying moth. On surface level, this essay is just a recounting of an afternoon in which she watched a moth die—it’s even established in the title. But there’s more to it than that. Though Woolf does not begin her essay with as clear a motif as Wallace, it’s not hard to pick out the evidence she uses to support her point, which is that the experience of this moth is also the human experience.

In the title, Woolf tells us this essay is about death. But in the first paragraph, she seems to mostly be discussing life—the moth is “content with life,” people are working in the fields, and birds are flying. However, she mentions that it is mid-September and that the fields were being plowed. It’s autumn and it’s time for the harvest; the time of year in which many things die.

In this short essay, she chronicles the experience of watching a moth seemingly embody life, then die. Though this essay is literally about a moth, it’s also about a whole lot more than that. After all, moths aren’t the only things that die—Woolf is also reflecting on her own mortality, as well as the mortality of everything around her.

At its core, the essay discusses the push and pull of life and death, not in a way that’s necessarily sad, but in a way that is accepting of both. Woolf begins by setting up the transitional fall season, often associated with things coming to an end, and raises the ideas of pleasure, vitality, and pity.

At one point, Woolf tries to help the dying moth, but reconsiders, as it would interfere with the natural order of the world. The moth’s death is part of the natural order of the world, just like fall, just like her own eventual death.

All these themes are set up in the beginning and explored throughout the essay’s narrative. Though Woolf doesn’t directly state her theme, she reinforces it by choosing a small, isolated event—watching a moth die—and illustrating her point through details.

With this essay, we can see that you don’t need a big, weird, exciting event to discuss an important meaning. Woolf is able to explore complicated ideas in a short essay by being deliberate about what details she includes, just as you can be in your own essays.

Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin

On the twenty-ninth of July, in 1943, my father died. On the same day, a few hours later, his last child was born. Over a month before this, while all our energies were concentrated in waiting for these events, there had been, in Detroit, one of the bloodiest race riots of the century. A few hours after my father’s funeral, while he lay in state in the undertaker’s chapel, a race riot broke out in Harlem. On the morning of the third of August, we drove my father to the graveyard through a wilderness of smashed plate glass.

Like Woolf, Baldwin does not lay out his themes in concrete terms—unlike Wallace, there’s no clear sentence that explains what he’ll be talking about. However, you can see the motifs quite clearly: death, fatherhood, struggle, and race.

Throughout the narrative essay, Baldwin discusses the circumstances of his father’s death, including his complicated relationship with his father. By introducing those motifs in the first paragraph, the reader understands that everything discussed in the essay will come back to those core ideas. When Baldwin talks about his experience with a white teacher taking an interest in him and his father’s resistance to that, he is also talking about race and his father’s death. When he talks about his father’s death, he is also talking about his views on race. When he talks about his encounters with segregation and racism, he is talking, in part, about his father.

Because his father was a hard, uncompromising man, Baldwin struggles to reconcile the knowledge that his father was right about many things with his desire to not let that hardness consume him, as well.

Baldwin doesn’t explicitly state any of this, but his writing so often touches on the same motifs that it becomes clear he wants us to think about all these ideas in conversation with one another.

At the end of the essay, Baldwin makes it more clear:

This fight begins, however, in the heart and it had now been laid to my charge to keep my own heart free of hatred and despair. This intimation made my heart heavy and, now that my father was irrecoverable, I wished that he had been beside me so that I could have searched his face for the answers which only the future would give me now.

Here, Baldwin ties together the themes and motifs into one clear statement: that he must continue to fight and recognize injustice, especially racial injustice, just as his father did. But unlike his father, he must do it beginning with himself—he must not let himself be closed off to the world as his father was. And yet, he still wishes he had his father for guidance, even as he establishes that he hopes to be a different man than his father.

In this essay, Baldwin loads the front of the essay with his motifs, and, through his narrative, weaves them together into a theme. In the end, he comes to a conclusion that connects all of those things together and leaves the reader with a lasting impression of completion—though the elements may have been initially disparate, in the end everything makes sense.

You can replicate this tactic of introducing seemingly unattached ideas and weaving them together in your own essays. By introducing those motifs, developing them throughout, and bringing them together in the end, you can demonstrate to your reader how all of them are related. However, it’s especially important to be sure that your motifs and clear and consistent throughout your essay so that the conclusion feels earned and consistent—if not, readers may feel mislead.

5 Key Tips for Writing Narrative Essays

Narrative essays can be a lot of fun to write since they’re so heavily based on creativity. But that can also feel intimidating—sometimes it’s easier to have strict guidelines than to have to make it all up yourself. Here are a few tips to keep your narrative essay feeling strong and fresh.

Develop Strong Motifs

Motifs are the foundation of a narrative essay . What are you trying to say? How can you say that using specific symbols or events? Those are your motifs.

In the same way that an argumentative essay’s body should support its thesis, the body of your narrative essay should include motifs that support your theme.

Try to avoid cliches, as these will feel tired to your readers. Instead of roses to symbolize love, try succulents. Instead of the ocean representing some vast, unknowable truth, try the depths of your brother’s bedroom. Keep your language and motifs fresh and your essay will be even stronger!

Use First-Person Perspective

In many essays, you’re expected to remove yourself so that your points stand on their own. Not so in a narrative essay—in this case, you want to make use of your own perspective.

Sometimes a different perspective can make your point even stronger. If you want someone to identify with your point of view, it may be tempting to choose a second-person perspective. However, be sure you really understand the function of second-person; it’s very easy to put a reader off if the narration isn’t expertly deployed.

If you want a little bit of distance, third-person perspective may be okay. But be careful—too much distance and your reader may feel like the narrative lacks truth.

That’s why first-person perspective is the standard. It keeps you, the writer, close to the narrative, reminding the reader that it really happened. And because you really know what happened and how, you’re free to inject your own opinion into the story without it detracting from your point, as it would in a different type of essay.

Stick to the Truth

Your essay should be true. However, this is a creative essay, and it’s okay to embellish a little. Rarely in life do we experience anything with a clear, concrete meaning the way somebody in a book might. If you flub the details a little, it’s okay—just don’t make them up entirely.

Also, nobody expects you to perfectly recall details that may have happened years ago. You may have to reconstruct dialog from your memory and your imagination. That’s okay, again, as long as you aren’t making it up entirely and assigning made-up statements to somebody.

Dialog is a powerful tool. A good conversation can add flavor and interest to a story, as we saw demonstrated in David Foster Wallace’s essay. As previously mentioned, it’s okay to flub it a little, especially because you’re likely writing about an experience you had without knowing that you’d be writing about it later.

However, don’t rely too much on it. Your narrative essay shouldn’t be told through people explaining things to one another; the motif comes through in the details. Dialog can be one of those details, but it shouldn’t be the only one.

Use Sensory Descriptions

Because a narrative essay is a story, you can use sensory details to make your writing more interesting. If you’re describing a particular experience, you can go into detail about things like taste, smell, and hearing in a way that you probably wouldn’t do in any other essay style.

These details can tie into your overall motifs and further your point. Woolf describes in great detail what she sees while watching the moth, giving us the sense that we, too, are watching the moth. In Wallace’s essay, he discusses the sights, sounds, and smells of the Illinois State Fair to help emphasize his point about its strangeness. And in Baldwin’s essay, he describes shattered glass as a “wilderness,” and uses the feelings of his body to describe his mental state.

All these descriptions anchor us not only in the story, but in the motifs and themes as well. One of the tools of a writer is making the reader feel as you felt, and sensory details help you achieve that.

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How to Write a Personal Narrative like a Pro (With Examples)

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This article was co-authored by Grant Faulkner, MA . Grant Faulkner is the Executive Director of National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) and the co-founder of 100 Word Story, a literary magazine. Grant has published two books on writing and has been published in The New York Times and Writer’s Digest. He co-hosts Write-minded, a weekly podcast on writing and publishing, and has a M.A. in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University. There are 7 references cited in this article, which can be found at the bottom of the page. This article has been fact-checked, ensuring the accuracy of any cited facts and confirming the authority of its sources. This article has been viewed 863,437 times.

Personal narratives focus on a particular real life event that was pivotal or important for the writer. You may have to write a personal narrative as part of a college application or as an assignment for a class. To write a strong personal narrative, start by coming up with an engaging idea. Then, write the narrative with an opening hook and a detailed, organized structure. Always review and revise the personal narrative before handing it in so it is at its best.

Things You Should Know

Center your narrative around an important moment in your life. For example, you might write about a time you had to make a hard decision or deal with a conflict.
Move chronologically through the events you’re discussing. This will make your narrative easy to follow and draw your reader in.
Finish with a moral takeaway or a life lesson. What did you learn from these events, and why is it important? How did they shape you as a person?

Brainstorming Ideas for the Narrative

Step 1 Focus on a memorable event or moment in your life.

For example, you may write about your struggles with body image in high school and how you overcame them in adulthood. Or you may write about your disastrous 15th birthday party and how it affected your relationship with your mother.

Step 2 Expand on an important conflict in your life.

For example, you write a personal narrative about your complicated relationship with your birth mother. Or you may write about a conflict you have with a sport you play or a club you are a part of.

Step 3 Think about a particular theme or idea.

For example, you may explore a theme like poverty by writing about your family’s struggle with money and finances. You may write about having to defer college applications to work at your parent’s business to make ends meet for your family.

Step 4 Read examples of personal narrative.

The Boys of My Youth by Jo Ann Beard
Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion
Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
The Lives section of The New York Times

Writing the Personal Narrative

For example, the first line in the personal narrative by Tony Gervino is attention grabbing: “I was 6 when my brother John leaned across the kitchen table and casually whispered that he had killed Santa Claus.” [5] X Research source

For example, in Tony Gervino’s essay, he sets the scene by providing setting, character, and narrative voice: “It was July 1973, we were living in Scarsdale, N.Y., and he was four years older than I was, although that seemed like decades.”

Step 3 Move chronologically through the events.

For example, you may start with an event in childhood with your older sister and then move forward in time to the present day, focusing on you and your older sister as adults.

Step 4 Use sensory detail and description.

For example, you may describe the feeling of your mother’s famous lemon cake as “rich and zesty, with a special ingredient that to this day, I cannot identify.”

For example, you may end a personal narrative about your complicated relationship with your troubled sister by ending on a recent memory where you both enjoyed each other’s company. You may leave the reader with a lesson you have learned about loving someone, even with all their messiness and baggage.

Polishing the Personal Narrative

You can also try reading the narrative out loud to someone else so they can hear how it sounds. This can then make it easier for them to give you feedback.

Be willing to accept feedback from others. Be open to constructive criticism as it will likely strengthen the narrative.

Step 3 Revise the narrative for clarity and length.

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To write a personal narrative, start by choosing a memorable moment, event, or conflict in your life that you want to write about. Then, use your personal narrative to describe your story, going chronologically through the events. Try to use a lot of sensory detail, like how things smelled, sounded, felt, and looked, so your readers can picture everything you're describing. At the end of your narrative, include a lesson you learned or something you took away from the experience. To learn how to brainstorm ideas for your personal narrative, read on! Did this summary help you? Yes No

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Personal Narrative Essay - Easy Guide & Examples

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Published on: Apr 18, 2020

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Personal Narrative Essay Definition

What is a Personal Narrative Essay?

A personal narrative essay is also referred to as short storytelling. It depends on the writer's type of story they want to tell the readers. This type of essay can be composed of the personal experience of the writer.

A personal narrative essay is usually written in the first person participle. It helps to depict a clear narrative thatâs focused on a specific moment.

Usually, high school students are usually assigned to write such essays. Writing these essays helps them to enhance creative writing skills. Also, they help to provide insight into a studentâs personal life.

To write a personal narrative essay, the writer specifies a plot around which the entire essay revolves. Moreover, the plot should also discuss the characters that have played some part in the story.

Sample Personal Narrative Essay (PDF)

How to Start a Personal Narrative Essay?

The personal narrative essay requires a balance between objectivity and subjectivity. To write about an event or situation with significance, you must first identify what's important to share with the readers.

As with other types of writing - there are some guidelines you need to follow some guidelines. These are;

1. Choose the Right Topic

A good topic can not just make your essay look good, but also it will make the writing process much easier. Since personal narrative essays are written on personal experiences and thoughts, make sure you choose your most interesting experience.

Keep in mind that the topic you choose matches the intended audience. It is the reader who decides the scope and success of your essay.

2. Choose a Theme

You can also choose a theme for your essay. This will help you focus on what you want to say. You can use your personal experiences to explore the theme in depth. For example, if you choose the theme of love, you could talk about your experience of love with your sister(s). Alternatively, you can start writing out the story and see if any ideas might relate to a bigger theme. When you are writing, pay attention to any ideas that keep coming up. See if they might be related to a bigger topic.

3. Create a Thesis Statement

The thesis statement is the most important sentence and tells the reader what your essay will be about.

In a personal narrative essay, the thesis statement can briefly explore the story's events. Or it can tell the reader about the moral or lesson learned through personal experience. The thesis statement can also present the main theme of the essay.

For example, if you are writing an essay about your personal experience as a refugee. You may have a thesis statement that presents the theme of freedom.

Check out more thesis statement examples to learn how to write one!

4. Create an Outline

Once you have your topic, it is time that you create an outline for your essay. The essay outline is an essential element of an essay. It keeps the whole composition in an organized order.

Also, it helps the reader through the essay. With the help of an outline, a writer can provide logic for the essay.

Personal Narrative Essay Outline

Being a student, you must know how important an outline is for an essay. It provides an organization with the whole content.

To create an outline for a personal narrative essay, you need to follow the following traditional method.

Introduction

These three major elements of a narrative essay are further elaborated down below.

The introduction is the most important part of essay writing. It is the first impression on the reader; by reading this part, the reader decides the quality of the essay. This part should be the most attention-grabbing part.

It should have an attention-grabbing hook and some background information about the topic. Moreover, it should include the thesis statement, which explains the main idea of your essay.

Keep in mind that the essay introduction should always end with a transition sentence. This will make a logical connection with the rest of the essay.

Personal Narrative Introduction Example

Body Paragraphs

After the introduction, the body paragraphs are written. These paragraphs help you to explain the key elements of your personal narrative essay.

In a standard personal narrative essay, there are usually three body paragraphs. These paragraphs help the writer to describe the subject of the essay in all possible aspects.

With the help of these paragraphs, the writer describes their point of view to the readers. To support the essay, the time and place of the event happening are also mentioned. Moreover, these paragraphs have all the information about the characters.

Keep in mind that a body starts with a topic sentence . This sentence is a kind of introductory sentence for that particular paragraph.

Another important thing you need to keep in mind is the order in which you will present the details. Make sure that you use chronological order for this purpose.

Personal Narrative Body Example

In conclusion, you need to provide the climax of the story.

In this section of a personal narrative essay, you should wrap up the whole story. Do it in such a way that you provide a summary of the entire essay.

Your conclusion should be just as impactful as your introduction. End with a memorable sentence or thought that leaves the reader with a lasting impression. You can summarize the main points of your essay or reflect on the significance of the experience in your life.

Make sure that you do not add any new points in this part. It will not give the reader a sense of accomplishment and will leave them in confusion.

Personal Narrative Conclusion Example

How to Write a Personal Narrative Essay

A personal narrative essay is considered very good when it is expressive, and the reader enjoys your personal narrative. The key to writing an amazing personal narrative is to use sensory details as much as possible.

An excellent narrative essay doesn't tell what happened. Instead, it shows what happened precisely and how you have felt at that moment.

Here is how you can write a personal narrative essay:

Start With a Good Hook

For any type of essay , a hook statement can be a game-changer. But, particularly for a personal narrative essay, hook sentences are very important.

Usually, the introduction of the essay starts with this sentence. You may use a famous quotation, verse, or an interesting fact for this purpose. This sentence helps to attain the readerâs attention and persuade the reader to read the entire essay.

Vivid Description

For a narrative essay, it is a must to be vivid enough to let the reader imagine the whole scene. This is why it is necessary that the writer uses as much descriptive language as possible.

For instance, if you are writing about a visit to the beach, you can describe how the sun felt on your face. On top of that, making use of strong verbs and adjectives will also help to provide an engaging experience for readers.

Use Transition Words

For any essay, be it an argumentative essay , descriptive essay , or personal narrative essay. It is very important to have some transition sentences and words. These transition words help to make a logical connection in all parts of the essay.

In other words, the transition words help to make links between the storyline. You may use transition words like this, however, whereas, therefore, moreover, etc.

Add Emotions

The purpose of a personal narrative essay is to show the reader what and how you have felt. Hence don't forget to add the emotions, as you have to make the reader know about the feelings.

Describe all of the emotions and feelings using very descriptive words.

Be Consistent

Consistency is the key to writing an essay in a professional way. Make sure that you don't get distracted by any irrelevant details.

Stay focused on one single point, and add details related to your specific idea. Make sure that you inter-link all the events of the story in a regular manner. This will help the reader to relate all the events. Also, use first-person impressions as you are writing a personal narrative.

You also want to show the reader that you are telling your own story. Make sure that you follow the same participle in the entire essay.

Prove the Significance of Your Experience

You know that behind every event, there is a reason. Similarly, let your readers know the reason behind your essay and its significance.

Also, mention that the story you just told was important to share.

As it is a personal narrative, you don't have to provide evidence to prove the significance of your story. Rather, you have to convey a broader message through your story.

Use Dialogue

Dialogue is an excellent way to bring life to your story and make it more engaging. It can reveal the characterâs personalities and add a touch of realism to the essay.

When you use dialogue, make sure to punctuate it correctly and indicate who is speaking.

When writing a personal narrative essay, avoid summarizing events and simply telling the story. Instead, use sensory details to help the reader experience the story with you.

Describe what you saw, heard, felt, tasted, and smelled to bring the story to life.

Reflect on the Experience

Reflection is an important part of any personal narrative essay. It is an opportunity for you to reflect on the experience you are writing about and what it means to you. Take the time to think about what you learned from the experience and how it has shaped you as a person.

Once you are done with writing your personal narrative essay. It's time that you put a little effort into making it error-free. Proofread the essay more than once and look for minor spelling mistakes and other grammatical mistakes.

This will ensure that you have written an essay like a pro. You can do this yourself or you may ask a friend to do it for you.

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Free Personal Narrative Essay Examples

Examples help you to understand things better; here are a few well-written narrative essay examples . Read them thoroughly and use them as a guide to writing a good essay yourself.

Personal Narrative Essay 750 words

Personal narrative essays can be long or short. It depends on the writer how they want to elaborate things.

750 Words Personal Narrative Essay (PDF)

Personal Narrative Essay Examples for High School Students

Personal narrative essays are often assigned to high school students. If you are a high school student and looking for some good examples, you are exactly where you should be.

Best Summer Memory of My Childhood (PDF)

Near-Death Experience (PDF)

Personal Narrative Essay Examples for College Students

Being a college student, you will often get to write personal narrative essays. Here are a few examples of well-written personal narrative essays to guide college students.

Climbing a Mountain (PDF)

My First Job (PDF)

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Personal Narrative Essay Topics

It is important to choose a good topic before you start writing. Here are some interesting narrative essay topics you can choose from for your essay.

My worst childhood memory
My favorite summer activities during vacation.
The first time I had a serious argument with my best friend
The first time someone broke my heart.
Things I could tell myself.
How I balance my family life and my professional life.
The most important rule in life
Teachers who inspired me in my college.
Why I love to write a diary
My favorite New York Times Article.
My favorite movie.
Personal advice for the youth of today.
How I overcame my stage fear.
The toughest decision I have ever made.
What I regret most

Need some inspiration to craft your essay? Our expansive list of narrative essay topics will provide you with plenty of ideas!

Personal Narrative Essay Writing Tips

You need to follow a few things in order to start your personal narrative essay in a proper way. Those significant things are as follows:

Think of a memorable event, an unforgettable experience, or any that you want to tell the readers.
Plan your narrative essay. Make yourself clear on the order in which you want to mention all the details.
Start your personal essay with a hook sentence. This will help you to grab the attention of the readers.
Use vivid language so that the reader can imagine the whole scene in mind. Describe the actions, mood, theme, and overall plot.
Make sure that you use descriptive language.
Use proper sentence structure.

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Most students who apply to top-tier colleges have exceptional grades, standardized test scores, and extracurricular activities. How do admissions officers decide which applicants to choose among all these stellar students? One way is on the strength of their college essay .

This personal statement, along with other qualitative factors like teacher recommendations, helps the admissions committee see who you really are—the person behind the transcript. So, it’s obviously important to write a great one.

What Is the Purpose of the College Essay?

Your college essay helps you stand out in a pool of qualified candidates. If effective, it will also show the admissions committee more of your personality and allow them to get a sense of how you’ll fit in with and contribute to the student body and institution. Additionally, it will show the school that you can express yourself persuasively and clearly in writing, which is an important part of most careers, no matter where you end up.

Typically, students must submit a personal statement (usually the Common App essay ) along with school-specific supplements. Some students are surprised to learn that essays typically count for around 25% of your entire application at the top 250 schools. That’s an enormous chunk, especially considering that, unlike your transcript and extracurriculars, it isn’t an assessment of your entire high school career.

The purpose of the college essay is to paint a complete picture of yourself, showing admissions committees the person behind the grades and test scores. A strong college essay shows your unique experiences, personality, perspective, interests, and values—ultimately, what makes you unique. After all, people attend college, not their grades or test scores. The college essay also provides students with a considerable amount of agency in their application, empowering them to share their own stories.

How to Stand Out Without Showing Off

It’s important to strike a balance between exploring your achievements and demonstrating humility. Your aim should be to focus on the meaning behind the experience and how it changed your outlook, not the accomplishment itself.

Confidence without cockiness is the key here. Don’t simply catalog your achievements, there are other areas on your application to share them. Rather, mention your achievements when they’re critical to the story you’re telling. It’s helpful to think of achievements as compliments, not highlights, of your college essay.

Take this essay excerpt , for example:

My parents’ separation allowed me the space to explore my own strengths and interests as each of them became individually busier. As early as middle school, I was riding the light rail train by myself, reading maps to get myself home, and applying to special academic programs without urging from my parents. Even as I took more initiatives on my own, my parents both continued to see me as somewhat immature. All of that changed three years ago, when I applied and was accepted to the SNYI-L summer exchange program in Morocco. I would be studying Arabic and learning my way around the city of Marrakesh. Although I think my parents were a little surprised when I told them my news, the addition of a fully-funded scholarship convinced them to let me go.

Instead of saying “ I received this scholarship and participated in this prestigious program, ” the author tells a story, demonstrating their growth and initiative through specific actions (riding the train alone, applying academic programs on her own, etc.)—effectively showing rather than telling.

15 Tips for Writing an Essay About Yourself

1. start early .

Leave yourself plenty of time to write your college essay—it’s stressful enough to compose a compelling essay without putting yourself under a deadline. Starting early on your essay also leaves you time to edit and refine your work, have others read your work (for example, your parents or a teacher), and carefully proofread.

2. Choose a topic that’s meaningful to you

The foundation of a great essay is selecting a topic that has real meaning for you. If you’re passionate about the subject, the reader will feel it. Alternatively, choosing a topic you think the admissions committee is looking for, but isn’t all that important to you, won’t make for a compelling essay; it will be obvious that you’re not very invested in it.

3. Show your personality

One of the main points of your college essay is to convey your personality. Admissions officers will see your transcript and read about the awards you’ve won, but the essay will help them get to know you as a person. Make sure your personality is evident in each part—if you are a jokester, incorporate some humor. Your friends should be able to pick your essay from an anonymous pile, read it, and recognize it as yours. In that same vein, someone who doesn’t know you at all should feel like they understand your personality after reading your essay.

4. Write in your own voice

In order to bring authenticity to your essay, you’ll need to write in your own voice. Don’t be overly formal (but don’t be too casual, either). Remember: you want the reader to get to know the real you, not a version of you that comes across as overly stiff or stilted. You should feel free to use contractions, incorporate dialogue, and employ vocabulary that comes naturally to you.

5. Use specific examples

Real, concrete stories and examples will help your essay come to life. They’ll add color to your narrative and make it more compelling for the reader. The goal, after all, is to engage your audience—the admissions committee.

For example, instead of stating that you care about animals, you should tell us a story about how you took care of an injured stray cat.

Consider this side-by-side comparison:

Example 1: I care deeply about animals and even once rescued a stray cat. The cat had an injured leg, and I helped nurse it back to health.

Example 2: I lost many nights of sleep trying to nurse the stray cat back to health. Its leg infection was extremely painful, and it meowed in distress up until the wee hours of the morning. I didn’t mind it though; what mattered was that the cat regained its strength. So, I stayed awake to administer its medicine and soothe it with loving ear rubs.

The second example helps us visualize this situation and is more illustrative of the writer’s personality. Because she stayed awake to care for the cat, we can infer that she is a compassionate person who cares about animals. We don’t get the same depth with the first example.

6. Don’t be afraid to show off…

You should always put your best foot forward—the whole point of your essay is to market yourself to colleges. This isn’t the time to be shy about your accomplishments, skills, or qualities.

7. …While also maintaining humility

But don’t brag. Demonstrate humility when discussing your achievements. In the example above, for instance, the author discusses her accomplishments while noting that her parents thought of her as immature. This is a great way to show humility while still highlighting that she was able to prove her parents wrong.

8. Be vulnerable

Vulnerability goes hand in hand with humility and authenticity. Don’t shy away from exploring how your experience affected you and the feelings you experienced. This, too, will help your story come to life.

Here’s an excerpt from a Common App essay that demonstrates vulnerability and allows us to connect with the writer:

“You ruined my life!” After months of quiet anger, my brother finally confronted me. To my shame, I had been appallingly ignorant of his pain.

Despite being twins, Max and I are profoundly different. Having intellectual interests from a young age that, well, interested very few of my peers, I often felt out of step in comparison with my highly-social brother. Everything appeared to come effortlessly for Max and, while we share an extremely tight bond, his frequent time away with friends left me feeling more and more alone as we grew older.

In this essay, the writer isn’t afraid to share his insecurities and feelings with us. He states that he had been “ appallingly ignorant ” of his brother’s pain, that he “ often felt out of step ” compared to his brother, and that he had felt “ more and more alone ” over time. These are all emotions that you may not necessarily share with someone you just met, but it’s exactly this vulnerability that makes the essay more raw and relatable.

9. Don’t lie or hyperbolize

This essay is about the authentic you. Lying or hyperbolizing to make yourself sound better will not only make your essay—and entire application—less genuine, but it will also weaken it. More than likely, it will be obvious that you’re exaggerating. Plus, if colleges later find out that you haven’t been truthful in any part of your application, it’s grounds for revoking your acceptance or even expulsion if you’ve already matriculated.

10. Avoid cliches

How the COVID-19 pandemic changed your life. A sports victory as a metaphor for your journey. How a pet death altered your entire outlook. Admissions officers have seen more essays on these topics than they can possibly count. Unless you have a truly unique angle, then it’s in your best interest to avoid them. Learn which topics are cliche and how to fix them .

11. Proofread

This is a critical step. Even a small error can break your essay, however amazing it is otherwise. Make sure you read it over carefully, and get another set of eyes (or two or three other sets of eyes), just in case.

12. Abstain from using AI

There are a handful of good reasons to avoid using artificial intelligence (AI) to write your college essay. Most importantly, it’s dishonest and likely to be not very good; AI-generated essays are generally formulaic, generic, and boring—everything you’re trying to avoid being. The purpose of the college essay is to share what makes you unique and highlight your personal experiences and perspectives, something that AI can’t capture.

13. Use parents as advisors, not editors

The voice of an adult is different from that of a high schooler and admissions committees are experts at spotting the writing of parents. Parents can play a valuable role in creating your college essay—advising, proofreading, and providing encouragement during those stressful moments. However, they should not write or edit your college essay with their words.

14. Have a hook

Admissions committees have a lot of essays to read and getting their attention is essential for standing out among a crowded field of applicants. A great hook captures your reader’s imagination and encourages them to keep reading your essay. Start strong, first impressions are everything!

15. Give them something to remember

The ending of your college essay is just as important as the beginning. Give your reader something to remember by composing an engaging and punchy paragraph or line—called a kicker in journalism—that ties everything you’ve written above together.

Where to Get Free Feedback on Your College Essay

Before you send off your application, make sure you get feedback from a trusted source on your essay. CollegeVine’s free peer essay review will give you the support you need to ensure you’ve effectively presented your personality and accomplishments. Our expert essay review pairs you with an advisor to help you refine your writing, submit your best work, and boost your chances of getting into your dream school. Find the right advisor for you and get started on honing a winning essay.

15 Inspiring Personal Narrative Examples for Writers

Reveal a part of yourself in your essay.

Students start writing personal narratives at a young age, learning to use descriptive language to tell a story about their own experiences. Try sharing these personal narrative examples for elementary, middle, and high school to help them understand this essay form.

What is a personal narrative?

Think of a narrative essay like telling a story. Use descriptive language, and be sure you have a beginning, middle, and end. The essay should recount your personal experiences, including your thoughts, feelings, and actions.

Learn more about personal narrative essays here:

What Is Narrative Writing, and How Do I Teach It in the Classroom?
Engaging Personal Narrative Ideas for Kids and Teens
Best Mentor Texts for Narrative Writing in Elementary School

Elementary School Personal Narrative Examples

In elementary school, personal narratives might be quite short, just a paragraph or two. The key is to encourage kids to embrace a personal style of writing, one that speaks in their own voice. Take a look at these elementary school personal narrative essay examples for inspiration.

The Horrible Day

“next i fell asleep in my cereal and my brother stole my toast”—anonymous student.

In this short personal narrative written by a 2nd grader, the author describes a bad day with lots of details and an informal tone. It’s a great model for your youngest writers.

Read the full essay: The Horrible Day at Thoughtful Learning

Keep an Eye on the Sky!

“as we made our way out to the field, my stomach slowly turned into a giant knot of fear.” —anonymous student.

Any student who dreads gym class will connect with this essay, which turns a challenge into a triumph. This narrative from Time for Kids is annotated, with highlighted details and tips to help kids write their own essay.

Read the full essay: Keep an Eye on the Sky! at Time for Kids

Grandpa, Chaz, and Me

“i really miss grandpa, and so does my brother, even though he never met him.” —cody, 4th grade student.

Written by a 4th grader, this essay relates the author’s loss of a grandfather at a very young age. Using simple, personal language, they tell a compelling story in a few short paragraphs.

Read the full essay: Grandpa, Chaz, and Me at Thoughtful Learning

Surviving an Embarrassing Situation

“i had made the shot in the wrong basket, giving the green shirts the win” —anonymous student.

Personal narratives tell a story, with a beginning, middle, and end. This annotated essay outlines those parts, making it easier for young writers to do the same in their own writing.

Read the full essay: Surviving an Embarrassing Situation at Sopris West Educational Services

“Do you have a friend who loves you?” —Kendra, 4th grade student

Writing about friends gives writers the chance to describe someone’s physical characteristics and personality. This 4th grade essay uses personal details to bring a beloved friend to life.

Read the full essay: Ann at Thoughtful Learning

Middle School Personal Narrative Examples

By middle school, personal narratives are longer and more involved, telling more detailed stories and experiences. These middle school personal narrative essay examples model strong writing skills for this age group.

“As thoughts of certain death run through my mind, the world appears a precious, treasured place.” —Amy, student

Describing an opportunity to overcome your worst fears makes an excellent personal narrative topic. The vivid descriptions of the landscape and the author’s feelings help the reader make a strong connection to the author.

Read the full essay: The Climb at Thoughtful Learning

The Best Friend Question

“i’ve often wondered, does not having a best friend make me defective” —blanche li, age 13, diablo vista middle school, danville, california.

When her Spanish teacher asked students for an essay describing their best friend, 13-year-old Blanche Li fell back on her standard story: that of a made-up person. Here, she explains why she made up “Haley” and wonders what having an imaginary best friend says about her.

Read the full essay: The Best Friend Question at The New York Times

The Racist Warehouse

“i didn’t know racism was still around; i thought that situation had died along with dr. king.” —alicia, 8th grade student.

Strong personal narratives often relate the way the author learned an important life lesson. Here, an 8th grader describes her first experience with racism, in an essay that will sadly ring true with many readers.

Read the full essay: The Racist Warehouse at Thoughtful Teaching

“For the first time, we realized that we didn’t know how to express our voice, and we always suppressed it.” —Jocelyn C., 7th grade student, Texas

Seventh-grader Jocelyn C. describes the unique experience of spending two years living in an RV with her family, traveling the country. She relates the ups and downs of their trip, illustrating the way her family learned to live together in close quarters and embrace the adventure.

Read the full essay: RV Journey at Write From the Heart

An Eight Pound Rival

“i’m trying to accept that he didn’t mean to dominate the center stage all the time, that’s just one of the many lovable assets of his personality.”.

A new sibling can change everything in a family, especially when you’ve always been the baby. This middle schooler explains her challenging relationship with a little brother that she loves, even when he drives her a bit crazy. (Find this essay on page 42 at the link.)

Read the full essay: An Eight Pound Rival at Teaching That Makes Sense

High School Personal Narrative Examples

High school students have more complex stories to tell, though they’re sometimes reluctant to do so. Reading personal narrative essay examples like these can encourage them to open up and get their thoughts, feelings, and ideas down on the page.

Sorry, Wrong Number

“when i received the first text, i was a playful sixth grader, always finding sly ways to be subversive in school and with friends.” —michelle ahn, high school student.

When Michelle Ahn was 11, she started getting texts for a wrong number, a man named Jared. Rather than correcting the error, she spends the next few years occasionally engaging with his texters as “Jared,” learning more about him. Though she finally comes clean, her time as “Jared” exposes her to a way of life very different from her own, and opens her eyes to the inner lives of others.

Read the full essay: Sorry, Wrong Number at The New York Times

Caught in the Net

“little does everyone else know how often i’m not doing school research or paper writing; instead i’m aimlessly writing emails or chatting with internet friends and family hundreds of miles away.” —kim, college student.

Even before social media and smartphones swept the world, internet addiction had become a problem. Here, a student shares her experiences in AOL chat rooms, meeting people from around the globe. Eventually, she realizes she’s sacrificing life in the real world for her digital friends and experiences, and works to find the right balance.

Read the full essay: Caught in the Net at Thoughtful Learning

Nothing Extraordinary

“an uneasy feeling started to settle in my chest. i tried to push it out, but once it took root it refused to be yanked up and tossed away.” —jeniffer kim, high school student.

During an ordinary shopping trip, high schooler Jenniffer Kim suddenly realizes she’s ashamed of her mother. At the same time, she recognizes all the sacrifices her mom has made for her, and gladly takes the chance to make a tiny sacrifice of her own.

Read the full essay: Nothing Extraordinary at The New York Times

The Pot Calling the Kettle Black

“at this point in life, i had not yet learned to be gentle with myself, or others.” —anonymous student.

A teen who lives with bipolar disorder recounts a difficult conversation with her parents, in which her mother dismisses her as “crazy.” A few years later, this same teen finds herself in the emergency room, where her mother has just tried to die by suicide. “Crazy!” the daughter thinks. After her mother also receives a bipolar disorder diagnosis, the author concludes, “‘Crazy’ is a term devised to dismiss people.”

Read the full essay: The Pot Calling the Kettle Black at Pressbooks

What a Black Woman Wishes Her Adoptive White Parents Knew

“i know that i am different, but do not have the words to understand how.” —mariama lockington.

Though not written by a high schooler, this essay by Mariama Lockington makes an excellent mentor text for this age group. Lockington dives deep into her feelings about being adopted by parents of a different race, and shares her challenges in poignant language that speaks directly to the reader.

Read the full essay: What a Black Woman Wishes Her Adoptive White Parents Knew at Buzzfeed News

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Telling Short, Memorable Stories From Your Life: ‘My Secret Pepsi Plot’

An invitation to students to tell a meaningful story in a limited number of words, with an example from The Times’s Lives column to help.

By Katherine Schulten

Our new Mentor Text series spotlights writing from The Times that students can learn from and emulate.

This entry, like several others we are publishing, focuses on an essay from The Times’s long-running Lives column to consider skills prized in narrative writing. We are starting with this genre to help support students participating in our 2020 Personal Narrative Essay Contest .

Our Personal Narrative Essay Contest is inspired by The New York Times’s Lives column, which ran from 1996 to 2017 and featured “short, powerful stories about meaningful life experiences .”

The editor of the column once posted some advice on “How to Write a Lives Essay” to guide those who submitted to the column annually. Much of that advice applies to our contest as well.

For example, several points boil down to reminders to keep it simple, including tips like:

Don’t try to fit your whole life into one “Lives.”

Don’t try to tell the whole story.

Tell a small story — an evocative, particular moment.

Better to start from something very simple that you think is interesting (an incident, a person) and expand upon it, rather than a large idea that you then have to fit into a short essay. For example, start with “the day the Santa Claus in the mall asked me on a date” rather than “the state of affairs that is dating in an older age bracket.”

This advice is similar to advice often given to high school seniors writing college essays : You have only 650 words to show admissions officers something important, interesting or memorable about who you are and what matters to you. A list of awards you’ve won won’t do it, but an engaging story about making brownies with your stepbrother just might.

As you’ll see when you read the texts below, none of them try to tell the whole story of a life, but, instead, illuminate an important aspect of it through focus on one event or moment. Yet that one focus ripples out, and says so much more.

Before You Read

Use the sentence starter below to write for a few minutes about whatever comes to mind. You will return to this writing in the “Now Try This” section.

A moment I’ll never forget from my childhood is …

Mentor Text: ‘ My Secret Pepsi Plot ,’ a 2014 Essay From the Lives Column, by Boris Fishman

This essay describes a memory from when the writer was 10 years old and his family had just immigrated from the Soviet Union to Brooklyn. “In the Soviet Union, we were secretly wealthy, but we arrived in Brooklyn as paupers,” he writes.

Somehow, his family ends up with 24 Pepsi-Colas in their refrigerator. The story of what happens next is Mr. Fishman’s short, powerful story:

Around this time I learned that American supermarkets gave back 5 cents for every returned empty. (Some states, like Michigan, its very name like a granite monument, gave you 10 cents.) I decided I would return those cans and give the money to my parents. My secret — a surprise.

Read the essay, focusing on how Mr. Fishman anchors the whole story in this one goal he had at age 10 — to return the Pepsi cans and get money for them.

As you read, you might trace the structure of the story. What does each paragraph do? What does each add to the telling of this small story?

Then, consider these questions:

How do the first two paragraphs set the stage for the story and give some necessary background?

How does telling this story allow the writer to show readers a particular time and place through the eyes of a new immigrant?

How does he pull you into the action, minute by minute, in the three paragraphs that begin “On Saturday afternoon …”?

How is money a theme throughout, in both stated and implied ways? What other ideas recur?

What is the role of the last paragraph?

Now Try This: Find Your Own Short, Powerful Stories

Look back at the writing you did before reading the mentor text. What is strongest about it? Could it become a short essay like the one you just read? If so, what would you need to do to shape it?

What other small stories — or “evocative, particular moments” — from your life might make wonderful short essays?

In a 2010 lesson plan, “ Going Beyond Cliché: How to Write a Great College Essay ,” we suggest students first make a timeline of their lives, or of one period in their lives, brainstorming at least 20 events, big and small, that were significant to them for any reason.

You might try that, or you can brainstorm answers to this list of prompts — or both:

-A time I took a risk: -A time I learned something about myself: -A memory from childhood I think about often: -Something that happened to me that still makes me laugh: -Something very few people know about me: -Something I regret: -A time when I felt rejected: -Something I am really proud of: -Something that changed the way I think or look at the world: -How I am different from most people I know: -Some of my fears: -A time I felt truly satisfied: -A time I failed at something: -An object I own that tells a lot about me:

Once you’ve chosen a topic, you might try to free-write for 10 minutes or so, asking yourself as you go: What was most interesting or memorable about this? What images come to mind when you think about this topic? Do you picture a person, a scene, a place? Do you hear a conversation or a bit of music? Do you smell, taste or feel something?

Finally, if you are still stuck, we have a list of prompts from our site that can inspire narrative writing . Take a look and see if any of them spark ideas for you.

More Mentor Texts for Telling Short, Memorable Stories

While the entire Lives column is devoted to “short, powerful stories,” the pieces we chose below are especially student-friendly in terms of both their subject matter and the way the writers focus on “an evocative, particular moment.” Below each title, an excerpt from the piece.

“ How Ramen Got Me Through Adolescence ,” a 2014 Lives essay, by Veronique Greenwood

When I was in fifth grade, I developed an intense dislike of eating around other people. The cafeteria was a place of foul odors, gelatinous spills, horrific mixtures of chocolate pudding, fruit cocktail and ketchup consumed on dares, and I found myself fasting from breakfast, at about 6 in the morning, until 3:35, when I walked home through the woods from the bus stop. Each step up our hill, a narrow ridge in rural California, I fantasized about the big bowl of ramen I would make myself when I reached the top.

“ Charmed ," a 2015 Lives essay, by Laila Lalami

‘‘Wait,’’ I said. From my pocket I pulled out a brown suede pouch bearing the name of a little jeweler in Rabat, the kind of place you send your friends to and say, tell him I sent you. In the pouch was a necklace with a silver khamsa — a charm in the shape of an open palm.

“ Montana Soccer-Mom Moment ,” a 2010 essay from the Lives column, by Laura Munson

I live in northwest Montana, and I have a teenager, and my teenager plays sports. That means a lot of driving — over-the-Rocky-Mountains-and-back-in-one-day kind of driving. I think about Meriwether Lewis every time I cross the Continental Divide, usually with sleeping soccer players wearing headphones in the back of my Suburban. I want to say, “Can you imagine everything depending on your horse and your ability to dream of an ocean past the mountains?” But it isn’t worth the eye-rolling.

“ All the Single Ladies ," a 2014 essay from the Lives column, by Jen Doll

“Single ladies to the dance floor!” came the cry, a masculine voice urging us forward. Wedding guests parted, creating a narrow path for the train of unmarried women to parade through in their finery. But we single ladies no longer looked so fine as we had that morning. We were worn and tired, sweat beading down our necks, sand crunching unpleasantly in our shoes, which were wearing raw the backs of our heels. We should have been lying down in cool rooms elsewhere, but the wedding was not over. We were 28. We knew what was next.

“ Working the Reunion ,” a 2008 essay from the Lives column, by ZZ Packer

My residential college always hosted the 45th reunion, one of the most well attended, I suppose because you just might not be around for the 50th. To my eyes, these guys were the picture of old money. Although they may have mastered physics or appraised the sharp beauty of “King Lear” in school, at reunions they reminisced about football glories and practical jokes. I sometimes felt less like a Yale co-ed who happened to be black than a black waitress who happened to be bringing them an extra fork. But after their dinner we reunion workers would drink up all the leftover bottles of wine while cleaning the dining hall.

How to Write a Short Essay About Yourself: Step-By-Step

Updated 06/4/2022

Published 06/19/2020

Yvonne Bertovich

Contributing writer

Learn how to write about yourself with confidence, including step-by-step instructions and examples of things to write about yourself.

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Writing or even talking about yourself may not come easily to you. However, for professional or educational reasons, it’s often a necessity. There are other instances when writing about yourself may make more sense, as you can provide the rawest and most honest perspective.

Jump ahead to these sections:

Steps for writing about yourself, tips for writing about yourself creatively or confidently.

Examples of Things to Write About Yourself

You should feel empowered—not intimidated—in taking on a writing project about yourself. Use it as a way to challenge how you view your own experiences, talents, and more. We’ll discuss some steps for writing about yourself as well as provide a few examples.

Writing isn’t for everyone, especially when it’s required. As much as you may dislike it, following the steps below can help the process go that much more smoothly.

If you find that following a different order than what we’ve recommended for you works better for your process, feel free to adjust accordingly.

Step 1: Determine your purpose

What’s causing you to write this “thing” about yourself? What exactly are you writing? It may surprise you that people write all kinds of pieces for themselves—even writing your own obituary isn’t out of the question anymore.

The more specific you can get with yourself about your purpose will help the rest of the process. If it’s something stressful, like a college admission essay or a cover letter, try to frame the project in a different light.

For example, “I’m writing this essay to show people my heart and how passionate I am about removing disparities and barriers in healthcare. I believe in my abilities, and I want to further my education, so I can help heal people.”

Step 2: Ask yourself some questions

For any good piece of writing, there has to be fact behind it (if even these facts are abstract in narrative or fiction). The best way to gather facts about any subject is to ask a variety of questions, both soft- and hard-hitting.

You may ask these questions internally, during research, or directly and literally. Treat this question step as a self-interview.

Here are some questions to ask yourself . You may also ask yourself:

What is my goal of writing this piece?
What themes or ideas do I want to focus on?
What are my strengths and weaknesses?
What are some important lessons I’ve learned?
What do I want others to know or understand about me?

Step 3: Organize your answers

After asking yourself the example questions above as well as others, you should be sure to write down your answers and begin organizing them if you haven’t already.

It may be tempting to just answer your own questions in your head as you go—but don’t. This will just make the writing step more difficult. You may think that you’ll remember every good point or profound thought you come up with, but memory is a tricky thing.

If you’re working through your questions during a time when you’re not ready or able to sit down and type or scribble them out, at least make some notes in your phone or in a journal so you can have some descriptive hints for later. No matter how big of an epiphany you may have, it’s possible you’ll forget it.

Step 4: Write a draft

If your ideas are already fairly organized, writing your draft should come fairly easily to you. The draft process, however, is when you can start spicing things up with anecdotes, your own personal voice, themes, metaphors—all that fun stuff. The point in you writing something about yourself for yourself is for the very reason that you can make it unquestionably you .

Dull, watered-down words or even over-hyped language from a thesaurus plug-in isn’t going to impress anyone. Writing something about yourself (unless the assignment is creative or unorthodox) isn’t the time to act like something you’re not.

All of this being said, don’t stress yourself out too much. Letting your ideas flow freely and then editing or revising them later is how you should approach the process anyway. You don’t want to put too many restrictions on your ideas from the get-go. Warring with yourself about your ideas while writing is only going to tire you out sooner.

Think about it—you may spend hours trying to write a piece while overthinking that’s no better than a draft you could have written in 30 minutes on the fly. Not being totally in love with your first draft is normal. It just allows you that much more room to improve.

Step 5: Put your progress aside

Much like during the draft process, it’s very possible to overthink your work after it’s mostly done. If you constantly keep re-reading it or rehashing your ideas in your head, they may start to sound odd, or you may try to add where you need to trim.

For example, the same concept applies to repeating the same word over and over aloud — it’ll likely start to sound strange or even wrong the more you hear it. This also applies to music — ever play a song you love over and over till you hate it?

You need to give your words and your brain some time to rest away from each other until you try to make any drastic edits or changes. That being said, you may love what you’ve written already and decide you don’t need to change a thing—that’s great!

Step 6: Review and edit

After your break, you can pick up your writing once again. Read it with a critical eye. Go back and think deeply about your purpose and any provided prompts. Have you answered everything you intended to or are required to?

It’s not uncommon—though devastating—to write an entire piece only to realize you wrote from the wrong frame of reference or focused on the wrong issue. For example, if you were asked to write about a challenge you overcame in your life by following an important virtue, but you only wrote about winning a basketball championship and not the struggle behind it, this may miss the mark.

If you find a good number of issues in your work, don’t feel tempted to scrap the entire thing. What may work instead is to copy and paste your writing line-by-line into a new document. This way, you can save as much as possible while being sure to resolve even small discrepancies.

Step 7: Finalize your work

After you’ve undergone the brutal process of self-editing (or enlisting help from someone else you trust) you can prepare yourself for the home stretch. Finalizing your work shouldn’t take very long.

Y our process may differ; however, it’ll likely come down to reading over your work a few more times just to make sure you haven’t missed words, punctuation, or proper grammar.

It’s OK to use this step to feel proud of yourself, too. You may not take a lot of time to reflect on your life and everything you’ve been through—it’s important to practice self-love in this way and celebrate your accomplishments.

Talking or writing about yourself may not be everyone’s cup of tea. For example, did you need to provide a fun fact recently but draw a blank? You’re not alone. In fact, many people have a false assumption that they’re boring.

On the flip side, perhaps you’re used to talking about yourself, or, at least you’ve got the “fake it till you make it” type of confidence down-pat. However, you too can only benefit from adding a bit more razzle-dazzle to your spiels and writing assignments. Here are a few tips for writing about yourself creatively or confidently.

Allow yourself space

If you have an upcoming project or writing assignment that has you on edge, consider stepping away. Even if you don’t consider yourself an outdoorsy person, a walk around the block may help you breathe and get your creativity flowing. Naturally, the more sound your idea or angle, the more confident you’ll feel about your upcoming performance.

Keep that ego in check

An underinflated ego is just as bad as an overinflated one. Pay close attention to your internal dialogue when approaching new projects or writing tasks (or, honestly anything that comes up during your day). How much of what swirls around in your mind is fact? How much of it is just fleeting thoughts or opinions? You are not your thoughts, and you always have choices. Make good ones and be kind to yourself.

Try this: Instead of thinking to yourself, “Wow, this is a really complex writing assignment. I can’t do this.” Or, “How am I ever going to get into my dream school with this essay? I’m not a strong writer.”

Change your internal dialogue to, “I have good ideas. I may not have my plan figured out right now, but I’ll get it done,” or, “I have so many great skills to bring to the table and I am very passionate about what’s brought me here. I will convey this the best I can.”

Crowdsource

Sometimes an outside opinion can give us much-needed perspective. Ask your friends, family, loved ones, or coworkers to describe you in a few words or even in abstract ways. Don’t view this as you’re fishing for compliments. Ask your loved ones for honesty, as this insight can only help you when writing about yourself.

Build up a fuel bank

Pulling inspiration out of thin air may not always be possible. However, if you build up a few reliable sources of inspiration, the next time a project hits, you’ll be prepared. You can fuel your creativity and confidence in a variety of ways.

For example, you can create certain playlists for different moods, save favorite art or graphics in a digital folder or keep printed versions in your home or office, write down affirmations or notes-to-self in a journal or app, and so on.

Reflect on past accomplishments and setbacks

Even if you aren’t a fan of journaling, writing about yourself is far easier if you take the time to reflect, if only mentally. If you know you have a deadline to write about yourself in the near future, you may want to physically or mentally jot down a few real-life examples or experiences that come to mind.

But how do you get in the right headspace to reflect? What if you only witness recurring thoughts about past events while trying to fall asleep? Be sure to practice the first tip in this section: Give yourself some space to think. For once, limit the distractions, keep all other screens put away or turn on your "do not disturb" feature.

Now, think about some past accomplishments or setbacks that may not even seem relevant to the topic of the assignment. You may have an epiphany about unrelated things or discover something about how you operate. For example, you might realize that you feel less nervous in social and professional settings if you call out your anxiety as being excited.

Examples of Writing About Yourself

Even if you feel super confident about writing about yourself now, we wanted to provide a few short examples to help you get started. Your tone, word choice, and more may differ depending on which piece you’re working on.

Here are some tips for writing or publishing your life story you may also find helpful.

In a memoir or essay

Those were probably the best and the worst days of my life. I had never felt more happy and never felt more sad. I felt as though I were so close to having everything I had ever wanted, yet it seemed with every step forward, I had to take two steps back. It was exhausting. How did I get through it? To be quite honest, I have no damn idea.

Perspective helped. I knew I could have had it way worse; I knew that my struggle wasn’t unique. I knew, too, that even when the small wins would come they’d have yet another loss right on their tails. I paid dearly for having too much heart and optimism, so I regularly had to hose myself down with logic and pessimism.

On your blog or website

If you’re reading this, it’s too late. Just kidding! That’s just a really good Drake album. I wanted to take some time to talk about what’s been going on in my life lately for those of you who are nosey enough to care. Again, kidding, I know some of you really care. I’m so grateful to have even this small following that I have. It’s wild, really. Who would have thought that people want to know what’s going on in my head at any given time? Joke’s on you guys, though, because I don’t fully know all the time.

I guess I’ll start off by saying that work has been a whirlwind. As you all know, it isn’t an easy time for anyone, so please don’t take this declaration as a complaint. I’m thrilled to still have a job despite everything going on. However, leaving this reflection at just that would be doing both myself and you all a disservice. It’s weak. It doesn’t really describe what’s been going on. Allow me to continue.

In a college essay

When I was young, my grandmother told me I couldn’t please everyone — that some people just wouldn’t like me for no reason at all. This was very hard for me to swallow at times. What does this have to do with who I am today and why I plan to attend your university?

Well, this early lesson demonstrates that in order for this world to keep spinning, we all have to be unwavering in our own pursuits. We are ourselves. We can’t be anyone else. In that, we all have the responsibility to bring our unique talents, wisdom, and heart to the table — even when we’re seated across from people who may not like us.

Sometimes Only You Can Do It

Writing about yourself may always be challenging for you, but who better to do so than who knows you best? If you work through the process in every situation and give yourself some patience, there’s no question that you can’t craft something amazing. You may also be interested in this article about how to write family stories .

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While it might not seem natural at first, learning to write about yourself, your perspective, and your experiences carries a lot of significance. Who knows who might read these words when you're gone?

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How to write a narrative essay about yourself.

When writing a narrative essay, you should have some essential writing skills since it involves telling a story about your own experience. However; one does not have to create a fiction story about his or her life.

For those who require help in writing a narrative essay, Edusson.com is an excellent platform that provides professional writing services. On this website, you can find experienced writers who are ready to craft a narrative essay according to your instructions.

You can actually write a story about your everyday experiences to make it more like a writing inspiration. Narrative essays are written in the first person but the story should be told in past tense.

Let’s look at how to write a narrative essay about yourself;

Choose a good topic

The writing guide involves coming up with a story and analyzing it. In fact, narrative essays are about testing your creativity. Since storytelling is one of the important aspects ingredients for a narrative essay, the writer should ensure the story is interesting using the right essay ideas. In addition, it should not involve outside research . You must carefully think to ensure you come up with the best story. The story’s details should resemble reality by expressing dynamism, strong emotions and your writing inspiration.

Use simple language

One should not use too much vocabulary.Y ou should use simple essay hacks like staring with a good quote for inspiration. The writing process should involve use of simple language that is easy to read and understand. When you use large vocabulary to express your essay ideas, the reader may lose interest in your essay. Use the right words that are easy to understand and clear grammar.

The story should fit the assignment

Since narrative essays are school assignments, they should be written based on the prompt given by the teacher. Even if you have an eye-catching story, it must fit the assignment. Some essay hook examples include; writing how your personality was transformed, how you were able to overcome a situation, how you failed and you had to deal with the failure etc. However, the writing hooks should make sense. One should also note that there is no situation without a lesson learnt.

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The story should have a qualitative plot

One should be able to answer questions like;

Where does your story start or end?
Apart from yourself, who else is important to the story?
Who affected the outcome of the story?
What are the specific details you can remember about the story?

The story should be concise, vibrant and specific to the point. It should have a start, climax and an essay conclusion. You should ensure the readers taste every moment of the story. Further, the last sentences should point out the main idea of your story. The narrative essays should not be too broad hence one should limit the plot, characters and setting. Likewise, you can include other characters who play an important role. You don’t have to write a formal essay outline unless otherwise advised. The basic essay form should identify the antagonist and protagonist. A protagonist is a person who is struggling with something, while the antagonist is the person who is prevents the protagonist from getting what they actually want.

Revising your essay

This involves essay editing after you have written your rough draft. This is the most important part of your writing. First, ensure the main points are clear. The purpose of the story needs to come out very clearly. The scenes and summaries should also be well done. Likewise, your writing styles and format should be checked. In addition, the words that are spoken by characters should be in quotation. Further, check your essay punctuation and spelling mistakes. In a nut shell; when you are faced with the task of essay writing, you should create the correct atmosphere by writing about something that matters to you. To ensure your essay is perfect, it might be beneficial to hire professional scholarship essay writers to review your work and make any necessary improvements. In fact, you should put yourself in the readers’ place by making the events in the story real. Once you follow the above tips on how to write a narrative essay about yourself, you will be able to turn your real life into a beautiful essay.

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Many students struggle with crafting engaging and impactful narrative essays. They often find it challenging to weave their personal experiences into coherent and compelling stories.

If you’re having a hard time, don't worry!

We’ve compiled a range of narrative essay examples that will serve as helpful tools for you to get started. These examples will provide a clear path for crafting engaging and powerful narrative essays.

So, keep reading and find our expertly written examples!

1. Narrative Essay Definition
2. Narrative Essay Examples
3. Narrative Essay Examples for Students
4. Narrative Essay Topics
5. Narrative Essay Writing Tips

Narrative Essay Definition

Writing a narrative essay is a unique form of storytelling that revolves around personal experiences, aiming to immerse the reader in the author's world. It's a piece of writing that delves into the depths of thoughts and feelings.

In a narrative essay, life experiences take center stage, serving as the main substance of the story. It's a powerful tool for writers to convey a personal journey, turning experiences into a captivating tale. This form of storytelling is an artful display of emotions intended to engage readers, leaving the reader feeling like they are a part of the story.

By focusing on a specific theme, event, emotions, and reflections, a narrative essay weaves a storyline that leads the reader through the author's experiences.

The Essentials of Narrative Essays

Let's start with the basics. The four types of essays are argumentative essays , descriptive essays , expository essays , and narrative essays.

The goal of a narrative essay is to tell a compelling tale from one person's perspective. A narrative essay uses all components you’d find in a typical story, such as a beginning, middle, and conclusion, as well as plot, characters, setting, and climax.

The narrative essay's goal is the plot, which should be detailed enough to reach a climax. Here's how it works:

It's usually presented in chronological order.
It has a function. This is typically evident in the thesis statement's opening paragraph.
It may include speech.
It's told with sensory details and vivid language, drawing the reader in. All of these elements are connected to the writer's major argument in some way.

Before writing your essay, make sure you go through a sufficient number of narrative essay examples. These examples will help you in knowing the dos and don’ts of a good narrative essay.

It is always a better option to have some sense of direction before you start anything. Below, you can find important details and a bunch of narrative essay examples. These examples will also help you build your content according to the format.

Here is a how to start a narrative essay example:

Sample Narrative Essay

The examples inform the readers about the writing style and structure of the narration. The essay below will help you understand how to create a story and build this type of essay in no time.

Here is another narrative essay examples 500 words:

Narrative Essay Examples for Students

Narrative essays offer students a platform to express their experiences and creativity. These examples show how to effectively structure and present personal stories for education.

Here are some helpful narrative essay examples:

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Narrative Essay Topics

Here are some narrative essay topics to help you get started with your narrative essay writing.

When I got my first bunny
When I moved to Canada
I haven’t experienced this freezing temperature ever before
The moment I won the basketball finale
A memorable day at the museum
How I talk to my parrot
The day I saw the death
When I finally rebelled against my professor

Need more topics? Check out these extensive narrative essay topics to get creative ideas!

Narrative Essay Writing Tips

Narrative essays give you the freedom to be creative, but it can be tough to make yours special. Use these tips to make your story interesting:

Share your story from a personal viewpoint, engaging the reader with your experiences.
Use vivid descriptions to paint a clear picture of the setting, characters, and emotions involved.
Organize events in chronological order for a smooth and understandable narrative.
Bring characters to life through their actions, dialogue, and personalities.
Employ dialogue sparingly to add realism and progression to the narrative.
Engage readers by evoking emotions through your storytelling.
End with reflection or a lesson learned from the experience, providing insight.

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Published: Feb 12, 2019

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Narrative about My Life

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About Yourself Scholarship Essay Examples (2023)

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A popular scholarship essay prompt is “Tell us about yourself.” This question is relatively open-ended, which may make it difficult to answer at first glance. What should I tell them about myself? My struggles, my goals, my passions…? These may all be fitting topics, depending on the scholarship. We’ll show you some scholarship essay examples about yourself, along with writing tips to guide you along the way.

What they want to know about you

As you prepare to write, think of the topics the scholarship committee would be interested in. These may include:

Your current degree, as it applies to your overall career goals. You can explain why you chose your current educational path and what you want to do with that.
Your short-term and long-term professional goals . Frame your answer as if to say “Where will you be in 5 years? Where will you be in 10 years?” Scholarship committees like to reward people with defined aspirations.
Past experiences that sparked your passions. You could talk about an influential person in your life, but make sure most of the essay focuses on you. After all, you are talking about yourself.
Something about you that relates to their organization. With any scholarship essay, you should try to connect yourself with the organization providing the funding. Don’t force a connection. Find one that naturally fits. Mention hobbies, experiences and goals that match what the review committee is looking for.
Something unique that sets you apart from other applicants. This may be volunteer experience, career specialties, situational differences (growing up in an area that didn’t encourage education), etc.

Note that you do not have to throw all this information into one essay. Choose the elements that best fit the scholarship. If you were on the review board, what would you want to learn about each applicant? What would make you choose one applicant over another? Keep this in mind as you develop your thoughts.

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What they don’t want to know about you

There is plenty of information you could include in an about yourself scholarship essay. There is just as much information to avoid though. Some topics to keep out of your essay include:

False information. Do not make up stories or fabricate goals to fit the prompt. The scholarship committee can instantly tell when someone is lying, and they will disqualify you immediately.
Past struggles that do not pertain to the essay topic. You can briefly mention struggles from your past, as long as you mention how you’ve learned from them. Do not make your essay a long story about the hard life you’ve led. Focus on your triumphs, not your obstacles.
Vague goals and aspirations. Scholarships are usually given to students who have a plan. If you say, “I’m not sure what I’m doing yet,” the committee will select a more motivated candidate. If you have a plan and a backup plan, that’s fine. Just make sure you mention both options and show which one you favor.
Cliché stories that most people tell. There is something that makes you stand out as a person. Use that to your advantage. Don’t rely on generic information they’ll find with other applicants.
Unrelated elements of your personal life. In most cases, you should not mention your significant other in the essay. You might mention a spouse if you need to reference your children or a turning point in your life, but these personal details do not fit most essays. Any information that seems frivolous or ill-placed should be removed from the essay.

Read through your essay carefully. If you stop at one point to say, “Why did I mention that?” get rid of the corresponding information. Showcase the best elements about yourself in a fluid and cohesive manner.

Short scholarship essay example: Tell us about yourself (100 Words)

With 100 words, you can only focus on one or two elements of your life. Think about your biggest selling points – the things that show you are the ideal candidate. Start by introducing yourself and your educational status. Then jump into the main topic of the essay. You may not have room to mention how the scholarship will help your education. Instead, mention how your education can help your career. The other information will be implied.

My name is Christian Wood. I am a high school senior who will be attending the University of Nevada, Reno in the fall. I want to become an online journalist. My goal is to work for the Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, Huffington Post, or another news outlet that has a strong online presence. Most people already get their news on the internet, and the industry will be even bigger by the time I graduate. Getting a degree in journalism with a focus on digital media will set me up for a fulfilling, fast-paced career fit for the future.

Word Count: 96

Medium scholarship essay example: Tell us about yourself (250 Words)

With a mid-length scholarship essay, you have more space to explain how your past has influenced your present and future goals. You should have rom for an intro paragraph, a few body paragraphs, and a conclusion (maybe incorporated into the last body paragraph). Think of a few main points you want to touch on, and write those down first. If you still have room, you can add more details about yourself.

My name is Sarah, and I spent most of my childhood on the wrong medication. I experienced a problem common in clinical psychology – misdiagnosis. Professionals provide inaccurate diagnoses for many reasons – f rom antiquated testing methods to limited education. I want to open my own psychological testing facility and help change that. Therefore, I am pursuing a Ph.D. in Clinical Neuropsychology. I was diagnosed with ADHD as a child because I had trouble focusing in school. The medication m y doctor prescribed to me only made me numb to the world around me. I couldn’t think or process emotions, or had no emotions at all. After several years my parents finally decided to get a second opinion. I saw a specialist and she concluded that I didn’t have ADHD , but a combination of dyslexia and dysgraphia (difficulties with reading and writing). She sent us to a therapist who helped me learn how to work around my conditions, and my life improved tremendously. I went from being a lifeless student with barely passing grades to an honor roll student full of joy and excitement. Unfortunately, my story is not one of a kind. There are countless children in America who are put on mind-altering medications that do not adequately address their needs. I cannot help all of those children, but I can provide a better alternative for the ones in my area. Through proper education, funded by financial aid, I can learn about psychological evaluations and provide the most accurate diagnoses possible.

Word Count: 249

Long scholarship essay example: Tell us about yourself (500 Words)

Scholarship essays that are 500 words or longer let you tell the whole story. You can discuss your past, present and future in a comprehensive manner. Avoid rambling and make sure each topic contributes to the overall essay. If one piece feels out of place, remove it and elaborate more on the existing elements. By the end of the essay, the reader should have a full understanding of who you are and what you want to accomplish.

My name is Sierra Breault, and I am a junior at Murray State University. I am double-majoring in Criminal Justice and Forensics Science, and I will graduate in 2024 with two bachelor degrees. My career goal is in social justice, so I can contribute to criminal justice reform. I want to ensure that those who commit crimes are treated fairly. I come from a small town where excessive force and even death by cop incidents are often committed, especially against minorities. A few years ago, one of my relatives was charged for a crime although the crime scene evidence wasn’t properly obtained, catalogued and analyzed. This experience played a big part in my wish to study criminal justice. I started exploring the career more when I decided that a desk job just wasn’t for me. Throughout high school I struggled because of the routine nature of it all. I saw the same people and attended the same classes every single day. I knew I didn’t want a job that would be that stagnant. That’s when I got the idea to work in law enforcement, because there would always be a new challenge for me to tackle. After researching the field even more, I set my sights on crime scene investigation. I have performed much better academically in college than I ever did in high school. That’s because there is no routine to the experience. Every week, I have new projects to complete, tests to study for, and activities to try. I have been involved with the campus Crime Stoppers organization all three years of college, and I was elected president for the upcoming term. This lets me work closely with law enforcement to supplement my college education and further my career. After graduating, I will apply for work as a dispatcher in a state organization, such as the Department of Criminal Investigation. While my ultimate goal is to work as a forensic analyst or crime scene investigator, those positions usually only go to people within the organization. Dispatch is the most direct option for career entry, giving me the best chance to pursue my dream career. I am applying for this scholarship to help me finish the last two years of my degrees. As a college junior and soon-to-be senior, my scholarship opportunities are limited. Most awards are reserved for freshmen. I took advantage of those early on, and I have one recurring scholarship that covers half of my tuition. However, I need additional financial aid to cover the remainder of my academic costs. I appreciate your consideration, and I hope that you can help me pursue a profession in criminal justice. This is my passion, and I have a clear plan to turn that passion into a lifelong career.

Word Count: 463

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Short Narrative Essay

Everyone finds it interesting to tell stories about their lives or about someone else’s. Through those stories, we can get lessons which we can apply in our daily lives. This is what a narrative essay is all about. Let’s go back to your experiences when you were still in grade school. Your teacher would often ask you to write about your favorite experiences especially during Christmas season and summer vacation.

Some people would mistakenly identify a narrative essay as equally the same as a descriptive essay . They are totally different from each other, yet both of them are forms of academic writing . Look into this article to learn more about narrative essays.

What is Short Narrative Essay?

A short narrative essay is a brief piece of writing that tells a story, usually focusing on a particular experience, event, or moment. It follows a narrative structure, involving characters, a setting, a plot, and a conclusion, aiming to engage the reader through vivid descriptions and storytelling techniques within a concise format.

Best Short Narrative Essay Examples?

Title: The Summer Adventure

The scorching sun bore down on the dusty road as we embarked on our summer adventure. Packed into the old, battered car, my family and I set off for the great outdoors. The air hummed with anticipation, echoing our excitement for the unknown.

As we traversed winding roads, the landscape unfolded like a painting. Rolling hills adorned with emerald-green trees greeted us, promising the allure of exploration. The scent of pine wafted through the open windows, mingling with laughter and the crackling excitement of adventure.

Our destination? A secluded lakeside campsite embraced by nature’s serenity. The promise of tranquil waters and starlit nights ignited our spirits. Upon arrival, we pitched our weathered tent, a ritual signaling the beginning of our escape from routine.

Days melted into each other, filled with hikes through dense forests, dips in cool, crystal-clear waters, and evenings spent around crackling campfires. We discovered hidden trails, stumbled upon secret meadows, and marveled at nature’s splendid orchestra of sounds and colors.

But amidst the beauty lay unexpected challenges. Unforgiving storms threatened our haven, testing our resilience. Yet, huddled together, we found solace in each other’s company, discovering strength in unity.

As the final sun dipped behind the horizon, casting its golden glow upon the rippling waters, a bittersweet sensation enveloped us. The adventure had drawn to a close, leaving behind cherished memories etched in our hearts.

Reluctantly, we packed our belongings, bidding farewell to the tranquil haven that had nurtured us. With weary but contented hearts, we embarked on the journey back, carrying not just souvenirs but a treasure trove of shared experiences and the promise of future escapades.

The car rolled away from the lakeside, but the echoes of laughter, the scent of pine, and the warmth of togetherness lingered, reminding us of the magical summer adventure that had woven us closer together.

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What is a Narrative Essay?

A narrative essay is a type of academic writing that allows you to narrate about your experiences. This follows a certain outline just like what we have observed in argumentative essays , informative essays and more. The outline consists of the introduction, body paragraph and conclusion.

This is a type of essay that tells a story either from the point of view of the author or from the personal experience of the author. It should also be able to incorporate characteristics such as the ability to make and support a claim, develop specific viewpoint, put conflicts and dialogue in the story, and to use correct information. You may also see personal narrative essay examples & samples

The purpose of a narrative essay is to be able to tell stories may it be real or fictional. To enable us to write a perfect narrative essay, the author should include the necessary components used for telling good stories, a good climax, setting, plot and ending.

How To Write a Narrative Essay?

Compared to all types of academic essay , the narrative essay is the simplest one. It is simply written like the author is just writing a very simple short story. A typical essay has only a minimum of four to five paragraphs contain in the three basic parts: introduction, body paragraph and conclusion. A narrative essay has five elements namely the characters, plot, conflict, setting and theme.

Plot – this tells what happened in the story or simply the sequence of events. There are five types of plot: exposition, rising action, climax, falling action and resolution. The exposition is the an information that tells about background of the story. It can be about the character, the setting, events, etc. Rising action is where the suspense of a story begins. It helps build toward the climax of a story. Climax is the most intense part of the story. Falling action happens after the climax when it is already almost the end of the story. Resolution is the part where the problem has already been resolved.

Characters – it is the person or other being that is a part of the narrative performs an action or speak a dialogue .

Conflict – this is the struggle or the problem that is faced by the characters of the story. This can be an external conflict and an internal conflict. An external conflict is a type of problem that is experienced in the external world. An internal conflict is the type of conflict that refers to the characters’ emotions and argument within itself.

Setting – this is knowing where and when the story takes place. This can be a powerful element because it makes the readers feel like they are the characters in the story.

Theme – this is what the author is trying to convey. Examples of a theme are romance, death, revenge, friendship, etc. It is the universal concept that allows you to understand the whole idea of the story.

How to write a short narrative essay?

Select a Theme or Experience: Choose a specific event, moment, or experience that you want to narrate.
Outline the Story: Plan the narrative by outlining the key elements – characters, setting, plot, and a clear beginning, middle, and end.
Engaging Introduction: Start with a hook to captivate readers’ attention, introducing the setting or characters involved.
Develop the Plot: Write body paragraphs that progress the story logically, describing events, actions, and emotions, using vivid details and sensory language to immerse readers.
Character Development: Focus on character traits, emotions, and reactions to make the story relatable and engaging.
Climax and Resolution: Build tension towards a climax, followed by a resolution or lesson learned from the experience.
Concise Conclusion: Conclude the essay by summarizing the experience or reflecting on its significance, leaving a lasting impression on the reader.
Revise and Edit: Review the essay for coherence, clarity, grammar, and punctuation, ensuring it flows smoothly.

What are the 3 parts of a narrative essay?

Introduction: Sets the stage by introducing the story’s characters, setting, and providing a glimpse of the main event or experience. It often includes a hook to capture the reader’s attention.
Body: Unfolds the narrative, presenting the sequence of events, actions, emotions, and details that drive the story forward. It develops the plot, characters, and setting.
Conclusion: Summarizes the narrative, reflecting on the significance of the experience or event, and often delivers a lesson learned or leaves a lasting impression on the reader.

How do you start a narrative essay with examples?

” ‘Are we there yet?’ echoed in my ears as our family car trudged along the endless highway, marking the beginning of our unforgettable summer road trip.”
“The sun dipped low on the horizon, casting a warm, golden hue over the serene lake. It was there, amidst the tranquil waters, that my adventure began.”
“The deafening roar of applause faded as I stepped onto the stage, my heart racing with anticipation. Little did I know, that moment would change everything.”
“Looking back, it all started with a single decision. That decision, made in a moment of uncertainty, led to a series of events that transformed my life.”
“The scent of freshly baked cookies wafted through the air, mingling with the joyous laughter of children. It was a typical afternoon, until an unexpected visitor knocked on our door.”

How do you start a narrative introduction?

You may start by making the characters have their conversation or by describing the setting of the story. You may also give background information to the readers if you want.

What makes a good narrative?

A good narrative makes the readers entertained and engage in a way that they will feel like they are becoming a part of the narrative itself. They should also be organized and should possess a good sequence of events.

How many paragraphs are there in personal narratives?

Usually, there are about five paragraphs.

How many paragraphs are in a short narrative essay?

A short narrative essay typically comprises an introductory paragraph introducing the story, three to four body paragraphs unfolding the narrative, and a concluding paragraph summarizing the experience.

How long is a short narrative essay?

A short narrative essay typically ranges from 500 to 1500 words, aiming to convey a concise and focused story or experience within a limited word count.

Narrative essays are designed to express and tell experiences making it an interesting story to share. It has the three basic parts and contains at least five elements. If you plan to create a good narrative essay, be sure to follow and assess if your narrative has all the characteristics needed to make it sound nice and pleasing.

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Interactive example of a narrative essay. An example of a short narrative essay, responding to the prompt "Write about an experience where you learned something about yourself," is shown below. Hover over different parts of the text to see how the structure works. Narrative essay example.

However, like any other type of writing, it comes with guidelines. 1. Write Your Personal Narrative as a Story. As a story, it must include an introduction, characters, plot, setting, climax, anti-climax (if any), and conclusion. Another way to approach it is by structuring it with an introduction, body, and conclusion.

Ten examples of amazing personal narrative essays to inspire your writing. Click to tweet! 1. "Only Disconnect" by Gary Shteyngart. Personal narratives don't have to be long to be effective, as this thousand-word gem from the NYT book review proves. Published in 2010, just as smartphones were becoming a ubiquitous part of modern life ...

A personal narrative essay can be best described as creative nonfiction about your experiences. We can help you learn how to approach this personal piece.

Show the narrative to others. Ask a friend, peer, classmate, or family member to read the narrative. Pose questions to them about the style, tone, and flow of the narrative. Ask them if the narrative feels personal, detailed, and engaging. [10] Be willing to accept feedback from others.

Free Personal Narrative Essay Examples. Examples help you to understand things better; here are a few well-written narrative essay examples. Read them thoroughly and use them as a guide to writing a good essay yourself. Personal Narrative Essay 750 words. Personal narrative essays can be long or short.

Focus on a specific moment, and describe the scene using your five senses. Mention objects that have special significance to you. Instead of following a common story arc, include a surprising twist or insight. Your unique voice can shed new perspective on a common human experience while also revealing your personality.

We don't get the same depth with the first example. 6. Don't be afraid to show off…. You should always put your best foot forward—the whole point of your essay is to market yourself to colleges. This isn't the time to be shy about your accomplishments, skills, or qualities. 7. …. While also maintaining humility.

15 Inspiring Personal Narrative Examples for Writers. Reveal a part of yourself in your essay. Students start writing personal narratives at a young age, learning to use descriptive language to tell a story about their own experiences. Try sharing these personal narrative examples for elementary, middle, and high school to help them understand ...

Here are six must-read personal narrative essay examples. 1. The Fateful Discovery a Woman Made After the Sudden Death of Her Infant Child by Rebecca Gummere. Few essays have gutted me to the same degree as Rebecca Gummere's essay in O, The Oprah Magazine. This is an example of a powerful story—one that is truly unique—and that's what ...

Overview. Our Personal Narrative Essay Contest is inspired by The New York Times's Lives column, which ran from 1996 to 2017 and featured "short, powerful stories about meaningful life ...

While "I" and "we" are both in the first person, "you" is used in the second person. Remember this rule, and you'll come up with an interesting essay or even a short story about yourself. You may even want to consider becoming a novel writer in the future after doing it. 3. Stick with "he," "she," "it," and "they".

1. Choose your topic. Before you start writing, you can choose a topic that will guide your writing. Because a personal narrative is based on your experiences, try to choose a topic you're comfortable with and willing to discuss. It also can help to consider the purpose of your narrative when choosing a topic.

4. The time when you overcame a fear or obstacle and how it helped you grow as a person. 5. A moment of personal growth and reflection that helped you realize something important about yourself. Here are a few personal narrative essay topics. 1. The moment you realized what you wanted to do with your life. 2.

For example, you might realize that you feel less nervous in social and professional settings if you call out your anxiety as being excited. Examples of Writing About Yourself. Even if you feel super confident about writing about yourself now, we wanted to provide a few short examples to help you get started.

It shapes our behavior, preferences, and reactions to different situations. As the saying goes, 'No two snowflakes are alike,' similarly, no two people have identical personalities. Each individual possesses a unique blend of traits that make them who they are. So in this 300 words essay about myself I'll talk about my personality.

Narrative Essay Definition. Writing a narrative essay is a unique form of storytelling that revolves around personal experiences, aiming to immerse the reader in the author's world. It's a piece of writing that delves into the depths of thoughts and feelings. In a narrative essay, life experiences take center stage, serving as the main substance of the story. It's a powerful tool for writers ...

This is a personal narrative essay about the author's life and future aspirations. The essay is well-organized with clear introduction, body, and conclusion sections. The focus of the essay is on the author's personal growth and the lesson they learned about the importance of self-belief.

Short scholarship essay example: Tell us about yourself (100 Words) With 100 words, you can only focus on one or two elements of your life. Think about your biggest selling points - the things that show you are the ideal candidate. Start by introducing yourself and your educational status. Then jump into the main topic of the essay.

A short narrative essay typically ranges from 500 to 1500 words, aiming to convey a concise and focused story or experience within a limited word count. Narrative essays are designed to express and tell experiences making it an interesting story to share. It has the three basic parts and contains at least five elements.

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My Best Friend Essay in English (100, 200, 300, 500 Words)

A best friend is a special and unforgettable person in our lives and will stay longer than other common friends. We share most of the things, conversations, and important talks and support them anytime in our lives.

In this topic, we are discussing the best friend and the memories that we all spent with our friends and best friends.

We have covered an essay pattern in various paragraphs of around 100 words, 200 words, 300 words, and 500 words, respectively, that helps many of the children or students of class 2 to 12th to understand the short and descriptive essay pattern of the best friend.

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My Best Friend Essay 100 Words

I always thank God that he sent Rahul into my life as my best friend, and I also wish that everyone has a friend like Rahul. Rahul and I met on the first day of school after the summer vacation when we were studying in the 5th standard.

I also remember an incident when our class teacher asked him about his previous school and the place from where he came. He is a good speaker, and he gave an interesting answer to everyone in his introduction in class.

He is good at studies and also a good athlete. He loves running and singing too, and his handwriting is also very neat and clean. I feel happy to become his friend, and he also loves my company, and we spend most of our time together.

My Best Friend Essay 200 Words

I have had a lot of friends since childhood, but Raghav is one of the kindest and most trustworthy friends for me. I must say that Rohan has been my best friend since childhood. He is a very good person and a true friend because he has a good manner that he never lies to anyone, and hates people who lie to him. He is a kind boy and also a sincere student. We both live in the same building, and our apartments are also in front of each other.

My parents also met my friend in the school at the parents-teachers meeting, and they also like Raghav and his sincerity. We both have been in the same class from the 3rd standard until now. We are in the 10th standard now, and we both help each other in the preparation for Board exams, which will be held in the month of March.

He always invites me to his house to play video games with him. Every Sunday, we both enjoy playing video games with popcorn and juice together. Sometimes, our school teachers also wonder about our true friendship and the strong bond between us. He has a set of badminton rackets and a shuttle, and we also play together in the evening near our building. We both love each other’s company.

My Best Friend Essay 300 Words

Everyone has at least a single friend who is more than just a friend to them. Getting a friend is common, but getting a true friend is very rare and a bit special. It is like a big achievement for people to get a trustworthy and lifelong best friend. I also had a best friend in my life too since childhood. His name is Ganaraj, and his mother is Telugu. We are neighbors too and also classmates. We always sit together in school and also spend most of the time together.

He is a very talented person and always supports me in my studies. We both like mathematics, and also we love to solve maths numerical problems. I like to play games, and we both always play games together and participate in the sports that are held in school. Our favorite sport is Cricket, and we both are good all-rounders on our school cricket team. Our class teacher always suggests and supports us to play cricket even better and also helps in education to achieve success in life.

He is very valuable to me, and I always value his friendship as I value my parents. He is like my family, as a brother from another mother. Whenever I need his help and support, my best friend is there for me to hold me. We both live in the precious moment and create memories that will stay with me forever. Our friendship is a kind of beautiful relationship, and I hope any kind will never break these mistakes. Every Sunday, we go together to a playground near our locality, and we spend most of our time there. My parents also like Ganaraj to be my friend. Everyone is happy with our friendship and has a strong bond that never goes down in any situation.

My Best Friend Essay 500 Words

My best friend’s name is Siddhart Jadhav. We have been friends since class 7th A in Alfred Nobel High School. We both studied in the same school in childhood but not in the same class as our sections are different. Later that time, all the students from all the sections are sorted according to the previous academics’ percentages and grades and separated into four different sections. Due to this separation, I met Siddhart in the 7th A, and we became friends at that time. Later, time goes by, and our friendship bond becomes stronger, and we become best friends with each other and spend most of our time together in school, tuition, and extra classes. We also sit on the same bench in the classroom.

Our likes and dislikes are also common, and we also love to dance and sing. In every annual gathering and other function that is held in our school, we both participate and give our best performances. We never wanted to win the competitions, our intention was to enjoy the gathering. Some of our school teachers don’t like our togetherness and friendship, but some of them loved and always blessed our strong bonded friendship to stay longer and longer. Siddharth and I always talked in the running classroom, and most of the time, our teacher also punished both of us by standing outside the classroom. We always tried to irritate the lecturer in the chemistry lectures by asking tons of doubts and questions. We eat tiffin boxes sitting on the last benches.

Apart from this naughtiness, Siddharth is very punctual, and he is never late for coming to school and attending classes. He always completes his homework at a given time and being with him, I also start studying very well and completing my homework on time. He keeps his books and copies very clean. His writing is very nice and encourages me to write cleanly and clearly for better understanding. My parents also compliment my friend that being with him, I also become responsible and a good student.

Siddharth and I are both excellent football players and athletes. When we both start playing the football game, the opponent team never wins. Our sports teacher always motivates us and tells us that we will become good football players one day. My parents also know Siddharth very much, and they like his pleasant behavior. Feel free when Siddharth and I stay together, whether for playing games, video games, study, or for going out to have fun with other classmates. Siddharth is my best friend, my first friend. He is the one who offers me help in my studies when I need it, supports me and always shows love to me, defends me, and stands by my side in any situation no matter what.

In academics, my best friend, Siddharth, is chosen to be awarded the best student of the year in the 10th class. He is one of the brilliant students of our school and also won many of the competitions that were held in school. He is like a well-wisher, and I always enjoyed his company. He, too, feels secure and relieved by spending time with me as well. He is like a problem-solving friend to me. I never wanted to lose him in my life.

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Nepali Friendship SMS / Nepali Friendship SMS collection contains mitrataa SMS, friendship SMS in Nepali, and friendship SMS in the Nepali language. Happy Friendship day!

Friendship Shayari in Nepali

1. friendship shayari in nepali language.

Aey sathi timee ek Mobile ko jastoy 6u, kalpana ma aau6u SMS ko jastoy, Mutu ma bas6u Ring Tone ko jastoy ; Prem tapaaiko 6 Network ko jastoy, hamilaai vul na jaanu Balance ko jastoy ..

2. Friendship Shayari in the Nepali language

Kahile na vaneko kura haru yada 6 Mitrata, Kahile pida ko ausadhi 6 Mitrata, Kami 6 Pujne baali sang, Natra jameen ma vagwaan 6 MITRATA. Be Friends Forever!

3. Friendship Shayari in the Nepali language

Pida + You = Malham, Vawana + You = Mahfil, Tears + You = Smile, Raasta + You = Uddesya, Nothing + You = Everything, Me + You = A gr8 story of ” FRIENDSHIP “

4. friendship quotes in the English language

You can count on someone to care for you as a friend only when you have learned to trust and love that someone yourself, without hesitation, move forward, and look for the positive vibe to make your days count so that you can come together as one to make a lasting friendship.

5. friendship quotes in the English language

At the start of a friendship, you grow a little bit of love for that friend this love will always stay the same and only grow through time with hurdles in this relationship to make it so much sweeter than it is and that is friendship the bittersweet moments that will make you whole as a person.

6. Friendship Shayari in Nepali Language

Mitrataa mausam hoina,

aafno ich6 pura garai aru farkine 6n.

mitrataa sawan hoina,

maajaa le barsiyo ra rokiyo.

mitrataa aago hoina

sulgiyos ra kharaani vai haalun.

mitrataa aapat hoina

chamkin6 ra doobos,

mitrataa ful hoiin fulyora oilaai jane6.

mitrataa ta saans ho

jo chaal6 tab sabai chij 6 ,

jo tutyotab kehi pani hoina.

7. Friendship Shayari in the Nepali Language

Who is a Sathi?

Sathi tyo jasale na bolaunda ni aau6,

binaa kaaran tauko khan6,

khaalti khaali garau6n,

Kahile satau6n,

Kahile rulau6n,

Tar sadhai saath nivau6n.

8. Friendship Shayari in the Nepali Language

Aey mero SMS mero sathi ko chheu jaanu,

Yadi u suti raheko 6 vane haalla na machaunu ,

Jab u jag6 tab bistarai ‘Muskurayer’,

Ani vannu “aie sala KANJUS” SMS chhito gar!

9. Friendship Shayari in Nepali Language, Nepali Funny SMS

Ful ko shuruvat kopila bat hun6 ,

Jindagee ko shuruvat sathi bat hun6 ,

Mitra koshuruvat aafanta bat hun6,

ra aafanta ko shuruvat tapaai bat hun6 !

10. Aakash laai nindra Aaye tab sutau vane,

dharti laai mritu Aaye ta gadi deu vane,

sagar ma leher uthyo tab lukaauu vane,

tapaai jastoy sathi ko yaad Aaye tab jau kaha.

11. Friendship Shayari in Nepali Language

Mitrataa mausam hun jasale aafno mag pura garun aru risai vai haale,

Mitrataa ful hun jasale fualaai ra oilaai janchh,

Sathiyata ta sans 6 jasale chaallay timee sub chij 6.

Joun gotcha kehi pani chain…….

12. Friendship Shayari in the Nepali Language

Prem ko sirap hou timee ,

Tension ko capsule you time,

Apart ko injection you time,

tar ke garau jhelna ta par6,

Kinki… MITRATAA ko oxygen your time.

13. friendship quotes in the English language

We are the same because we don’t care about anything but ourselves, we only indulge in gossip about people that surround us and we may be judged but it does not ever hurt us because no matter what we support ourselves.

14. friendship quotes in the English language

There is nothing that can compare to you and all that you stand for, you mean and do so much more than what you show, you are humble and perfect in my eyes even though you see so many flaws I just see you stepping on the ladders to perfection, let’s grow and get old together my friend.

15. Friendship Shayari in the Nepali Language

Sancho sathi ko 3 Nishaniharu:-

1.Besamay Miss Call Garne6.

2.SMS Muskurayer Padne6.

3. Tal Na padnu..-

Jo Kaam na gar vanchhu,

murkhyai tyo Jarur Garne6.

16. Friendship Shayari in the Nepali language

afno banaayau timeele. .

Kahile vulne

6in timeelaai

nai sikayau

timeele… .

17. Friendship Shayari in the Nepali Language

Yo mutu ko 6 Ek condition,

Jasama 6in kasai laai permission,

Matra tapaai justly sathi lanai 6 admissions,

U pani bina donation,

So just maintain a good relationship.

18. Friendship Shayari in the Nepali Language

Nata haru ko duri kamjor hun6 ,

Aankha ko kura mutu ko chor hun6 ,

Vagwaan le Jab pani sodcha mitrataa ko Matlab,

Hamro Aula tapaai tir hun6.

Happy Friendship Day.

19. Friendship Shayari in the Nepali Language

voli hos “AAJ” jastoy,

Mahaal hos “TAJ” jastoy,

Ful hos “ GULAB” jastoy,

or Jindagee ko harek kadam ma FRIEND HOs

Friend hos?

Ma just (H):p

20. friendship quotes in the English language

I want to see how our life plays along as we get old, we may be young now but I don’t want to miss your first kiss, proposal, wedding, or your first kid because you have played such an important role in my life I want to see and show how the new pages of our lives unfold.

21. friendship quotes in the English language

A strong friendship never ends, we may not talk every day or text to see if the other is okay, and we may not take selfies and tag each other in every blank space but we will always care for and love each other in our hearts that is what matters and with that, we know who matters.

22. friendship quotes in the English language

You are my angel, my body and soul resemble you so much to the point that I see a reflection of me when I see you; you brought me joy and all other virtues that have made the toughest times in my life endurable.

23. Friendship Shayari in the Nepali Language

Jindagee ma manchhe vetne6 n *EVERY TIME*

Or ramrod lag6 n *SOME TIME*

Sathi ban6 n *ONE TIME*

Tar yaad aaudai6 n *LIFETIME*

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24. Sathiyata shayari in Nepali language

Asal sathi “haat” ra “ankha” ko jastoy hun6n n,

Jab “haat” laai takleef hun6 tab “ankha” run6 ,

ra Jab “ankha” run6 vane “haat” ansu puch6 n.’-..’-.

25. Friendship Shayari in the Nepali Language

Kehi Manish

Vandai 6n mitrataa prem 6 kehi manish

vandai 6n mitrataa jindagee 6.

ma vandai 6n mitrataa mitrataa 6u..

jis-laai vari vari prem 6 na jindagee 6….

Friendship Messages in the English Language

Much gratitude to you for the gleam of your cooperation and real kinship in the aggregate of what we have encountered together. You are the best thing to ever come to pass. You are the veritable significance of real regard. Real cooperation stands the preliminary of time and you have exhibited to me what it is to have certified colleagues. I regard your association and I will remain each grateful for your love. Thankful for being my sidekick. Cheers to our loving fellowship. You are a friend.

Such an incredible add-up to talk about when I consider you as a buddy. I can simply say thank you as far as concerns you of immaculate kinship. Genuine associates stay reliable with one another. They are always together, and their hearts reverberate and resound comparable sounds. Your family relationship has been truly astonishing and this is the reason we are unclear. Thankful to you for being a bewildering buddy. You are truly regarded.

Come downpour and sun, whirlwind and peaceful, despairing and euphoric elation. I realize I can essentially rely upon you as a partner in all seasons. I esteem your companionship. You can continue being partners with yourself figuratively speaking. You should pick associates as you jump on your experience for the duration of regular day-to-day existence, and I am eager to the point that I settled on the right choice for you. Appreciation altogether must be the nearest buddy ever.

This far I have come is only a joke with you expelled from the story. Your cooperation justifies even more, anyway you generously shower it on me each time at any rate. I am thankful. You have reached my heart in the best way ever and that is what authentic cooperation is about. I realize I have not affected you as much as I would need to anyway I assure to be your best and most trusted friend. Appreciation altogether must be there.

It’s out of every last one of those, smiles, and impeccably created compliments snoozed with love, we uncovered our partnership. Thankful, you went along. We never knew from Adam, yet you danced into my life and transformed it into the best thing that anytime happened. You have given our connection the best life ever and genuinely gave my life essentialness. Thankful for being the most surprising sidekick that you are.

26. Friendship Shayari in the Nepali Language

Mitrataa naam 6 sukh

Dukh haru kahani ko

Mitrataa raaj 6 sada

Muskuraun ko lagi

Yo pal dui pal ko

Pahichan nai

Mitrataa ta bandh6n

Umer vari nivaun ko lagi

27. Sathiyata Shayari in the Nepali language

SATHI U Hou Jo

JAN- ma Gham Hou

FEB- ma bars at Hou

MAR- ma shanghai Hou

APR- may Bahar Hou

MAY- ma Suva Hou

JUN- ma Chahari Hou

JUL- ma Khusbu Hou

AUG- ma Taraharu Vari Raat Ho

SEP- ma Chandani Hou

OCT- ma Rimjhim Hou

NOV- ma Hawa Hou

DEC- ma chico Raat Hou

BARSH ko 12 Mahina Saath Hou … 🙂

28. Sathiyata Shayari in the Nepali language

Mitrataa ma maile chahe uslaai yati ,

ki aafai laai nai vul gaye ma ,

ra yahi haal ma khushi thiye ma ,

tar Jab todiyo mitrataa madekhi usle,

matra jiudo lash banke rahe ma

29. friendship quotes in the English language

Only some words of wisdom and a lot of heartfelt hearing of every complaint I make in silence yet you still won’t argue about anything that you disagree with but console me and listen so that you can say that you care and that you will always be there for me.

30. friendship quotes in the English language

You may be broken but I can fix you, you may be lonely but I can stand next to you, you may be angry but I can help you, you may be stressed out but I can relate to you, you may be sad but I can make you smile so if you have a hard time just know that I will always be with you.

31. Friendship Shayari in the Nepali Language

Best Gift :- jindegi.

Best Anuvaw:- Khushi.

Best Feelings:- prem.

Best Relation:- migrate.

Best Person:- ma a time.

32. Sathiyata Shayari in the Nepali language

Tapaaiko lakhuo sathi haru ma 1 hu ma,

tapaaiko na dekhine6 tyo tara hu ma,

yati ta malaai pani biswas 6 mero mitra,

garne6 sabai vandaramro sathi ko ginati

tab sabai vandaLAST huma…!

33. Friendship Shayari in the Nepali Language

Aakash ma dekhi “NARAAJ 6

*T*A*R*A*H*A*R*U*

Ko Ris pani “BE-HISAAB 6..

Ma sanga Baali raheko 6 n yo “SAB..

vanda ramro “SATHI

Jo Ma SANGA 6.. !! 🙂

34. Friendship Shayari in Nepali Language, Nepali Funny SMS

Ek Kutta bihan dekhi sanjhma samma

vonkta bato bao baobaobao

bao baobaobao

bao bao baobao…

Vo ta bechara kutta ho ,

timee kina vonki raheko 6u?

35. friendship quotes in the English language

Underneath all the masks that you put on, I can see it all it is clear as day to me even though others may believe in your act I will make it clear there is nothing that I won’t do to make you happy if I see your sad smile again.

36. friendship wishes in the English language

I can’t make comparisons with you, you are always perfect in my eyes, you are strong and beautiful and your eyes are as sharp as a blade and strong as steel that determines the choices you have made to make you real and I am proud to call you my friend.

Heart Touching Friendship Messages in the English language

All that you do impacts me to recognize that I am so respected to have you in my life as a friend. I won’t mishandle the remarkable chance. Much valued, companion. What is the hugeness of certifiable buddies or veritable family relationships? They don’t express unnecessary words between them anyway their heart synchronizes as one. An authentic partner acknowledges what to state, what not to state, and how to state it and a veritable buddy furthermore supports you in times of pity. That is the sort of individual you are. Appreciation altogether must be a real friend.

Your cooperation to me is what music is to the longing soul or water to a desert-dried drifter. You are such a sidekick and the sky is the limit from there. I may not know you extraordinarily yet in light of the way that we just started our family relationship. I may not know how you do your thing, yet one thing I know is that I have picked you as my beguiling buddy and will take in progressively about you in transit. I am setting down profound roots dear buddy. I am not going wherever, not at this moment.

In your family relationship, I find a veritable teacher, a perfect model for connection, and the certified significance of what brotherhood is about. Thankful to you for your life. I request that this magnificent fraternity won’t land at an end. Furthermore, I need you to keep the connection texts we have exchanged during the time as confirmation of how that certifiable family relationship never passes on. Peruse them each other day as I ask that it will pass on smiles to your face.

Heart-Touching Friendship Messages

Of the various things, I recognize, miss, and continue needing for extra about your connection is your vow to making even the scarcest and just basic minutes awe-inspiring up to such an extent. Whatever is unfilled in this life ought to be finished off. A stomach, a cerebrum, a house, a heart, or even in presence. That is the reason I expect you, to finish off my void presence with unadulterated impeccable friendship. You are truly shocking, my incredible partner.

Don’t realize whether it’s the perseverance with most of my wrongs or the reasonable satisfaction, liberality, or attentive usage of words when you chat with me that I should thank at whatever point I look in your great world. I a grateful you are my partner.

Each time you knocked it out of the park for me talked me into a course I would have for the most part surrendered. You have reached a nerve of fundamental need in my heart. In addition, I will everlastingly stay appreciative. Fellowship takes after nighttime. You express incredible night to the night, not because you won’t see the night never-ending but because you realize you will meet the night again the following night. That is the kind of individual you are, a friend that I will state extraordinary night as well and I realize I will see you the following night yet again! You are truly shocked. Appreciation altogether must be a grand friend

It has been expressed, nonetheless, I owe it to you in case I can resound it afresh ‘A man enveloped with him makes such a little group.’ I offer thanks to God for wrapping me up with you in such a miracle of an extraordinary fellowship. Guarantee that you will constantly stay by me. Unveil to you that you will be my partner until the end. Exhibit to me that you will constantly support me, and let me remain everlastingly grateful for our family relationship. Thankful to you for being explicit!

There is a touch of myself missing with you far away, wrapped up and joined amidst a detachment. I am grateful for every moment we’ve any time shared. In other words, it suggested and will continually mean a lot to me.

Your personality is reliably shining and bearing a tranquil face that impacts me feel comfortable each time I stop for a moment to wake myself in thankfulness to the reality that you are over the whole of my companion. Do you realize real bonds are assessed? Veritable securities are assessed by the regard that cooperation has passed and the assistance that has been rendered through a family relationship of certifiable and unadulterated enjoyment. When you comprehend the sum you value and manage to one another, that is the method by which authentic bonds in a fraternity are assessed. I find in you a real cooperation

I may distort any way I would preferably promptly do at my own specific risk. The claim to fame of ordinary science doesn’t strike me as impeccable to portray the conundrum of your camaraderie with… Moreover, neither would arithmetic have the capacity to help determine its significance. I will everlastingly remain obliged to you, the explanation behind the marvel your family relationship includes.

Life is a puzzle, notwithstanding, in the comfort of your mind-blowing partnership, it goes with all of the pieces figured out starting now. Advancing as I try to live In the light of this looks good. I esteem your connection for expelling from life unnecessary contact.

If I knew yet then moreover permitted to demand more in this life I would go for gold mines, platinum cards, diamonds, and rubies. In any case, God seeing how restricted man’s understanding can be surrendered me a probability of undeserved partnership with you.

There is somewhat clear flawlessness and genuineness in your heart that describes an ideal and impeccable world you merit, any way you are my association and a full significance of the family relationship, sometimes I can’t fight the temptation to feel alluded to figure you don’t ought to have a spot here and for that am grateful for your comprehension to remain and enable my existence to rise in quality.

Growing up I used to acknowledge there is a charm on the planet that makes everything possible. By then, I grew up and recognized it was by and by a story. Lost and bewildered I landed on the ship of your connection on which the more we journey on together I comprehended everything character up as a piece of your personality, for with you in my life I trust I require no charm to be exciting.

Despite the issues, incapacitation, and mountains life dumps all over the place, I am simply prepared to weave and round most of that with my head held up and high because your hand is ever outstretched to my longing in transit and your shoulder ever open for me to slant toward when am advised out by the greatness of life. I can’t ever approach thank you enough, anyway here is basically to alert you that am grateful for all your imperativeness hypothesis and inspiration in my life.

heart-touching friendship Messages

Exactly when negative thoughts assault my cerebrum and the flame in me is stifling out, surrendering me chilled. I review your kinship. Do you see? The specific individual comes into our lives which zones it ought to be. Some we know why and some we don’t have an idea. God brought you into my life and I don’t have the foggiest idea why. All I know is that I am grateful to God for bringing you into my life. You are a certifiable sidekick.

Frustrated, unquestionably, and effortlessly, I can’t go on. Your family relationship is continually exactly what remains. I am happy for you as my friend. I am satisfied with myself since I have a partner with whom I am happy. Persistently understand that paying little personality to what happens between us. I will constantly remain an unwavering and veritable sidekick to you. I will reliably venerate and put a motivating force on you and our friendship since you are the best thing that anytime happened. You are to make certain huge.

in the ‘security guaranteed’ arms of your fellowship lies the charm of influencing me to smile despite bewildered desire. All un-held gratefulness goes out to you my closest companion. I realize you can live without one another and I realize we can live for one another. I realize we can both continue forward without each, be that as it may, I realize we can both move on with one another. If I have a chance to pick certified cooperation once more, I would pick you as my buddy, since I could not live without you as far back as you came into my life. Negligence is how I said we can’t survive without one another. I can’t survive without our fraternity.

No doubt in the world, I’m lifted and reached out past regular by the realness that crowns your loyal companionship. You are shocked that you saw my cooperation texts? This is the fifth, so don’t be stunned. I need to exhibit to you how much our partnership expects of me. I esteem you, my dear partner. You are gainful to me.

What more may I have the capacity to ever need and demand that your family relationship? I will send a course of action of delightful connection texts to you normally to display that I never again believe you to be a friend anyway as a component of my nuclear and progressively inaccessible family. I never again believe you to be just a partner yet as a blood association since you have exhibited to me that veritable connection goes simply past being sidekicks, it balls down to help and motivating force to live. You are an authentic motivator in my life. Appreciation altogether must be a shocking sidekick.

I wish to state without you I would need to miss my inspiration for the duration of my regular day-to-day existence, aside from your brotherhood being the thought that never stops to move and cast the two gems of desire and light onto my way. I keep at it.

How you generously consolidate heaven tidy into my life illuminating every thick moment, surrenders me contemplating paying little heed to whether you are ‘an honored delivery person in camouflage. Before I met you, I used to feel forsaken and look high out of sight. Regardless, after I met you I saw the kind of connection that removes all sadness and shockingly joins a crisp plastic new. Thankful to you for being an outstanding partner. I regard your partnership

exactly when all desire was ignored, reason neglected, eagerness to continue living, left and life lost its flavor, God gifted me with your companionship. Remain with me and I will stay with you. Work with me and I will work with you. Reinforce me and I will support you. Take care of me and I will look out for you. That is the reason an exemplification of our cooperation. When we stay together, we will improve partners.

If your camaraderie passed on explicit shading to my life, it without a doubt would have been a rainbow since looking in my sky all I see is the magnificence of various tones painted in my cloud and need to the blues.

Am appreciative for I right now dream progressively and bloom with the example of imperativeness, energy, and desire that all spring from the assurance of your committed kinship. Astonishing people are made by the all-powerful. Amazing minutes are perfectly curated by the all-powerful. Surprising allies are the perfect favors from the god-like. You are a shocking individual and a remarkable gift from God.

Sweet Messages For Your Best Friends

Your kind of camaraderie is one anybody would pick over and over. You are the best! Genuine partners take after gold. They are critical and expensive. False mates essentially look like getting taken dry. They fly all finished and are dispersed in all niches and corners of the world. You are an authentic buddy. A gainful gold for me.

In case I’m not mixed up, I am losing defects in character. Likewise, that can mean only a solitary thing – the proximity of your kinship. I need to offer thanks to God for outfitting you to me with no sticker cost. If God has added a sticker cost to you as my partner. I would never have had the ability to shoulder the expense of you. Your regard would be costly to the point that a typical individual like me would not have had the ability to manage the expense of your association. I worship and regard you, my friend.

Masses are owed and truly confounded by countless things that sound great to them. Nonetheless, am astounded by one simple thing, the magnificence of your reverence and brotherhood. I appreciate how a chubby kid worships solidified yogurt. You are an incredibly one-of-a-kind sidekick and there is no other individual like you in this entire world. I am sending you my nearest sidekick wishes today since you remain extraordinary and critical to me. I love you and I venerate our family relationship!

In the street, thinking about you, I walk, around my head held up tall and high, my shoulders. All not for the pride, yet rather the energizing I can scarcely keep to the dividers of ‘self’ that I have yet sky best for partnership.

In case it’s consistently going to be an issue of perfect family relationship, by then it will interminably remain with a comparable answer, your kinship. Companionship isn’t a declaration. The family relationship isn’t a tune to be sung. The association is a calm assurance that plays out the custom of the generous decree which says, ‘to be there for the one individual I call my partner, at whatever point and rapidly’ Friendship is me, Friendship is you.

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The circle of friendship is a place of warmth and caring, where people come together for listening and sharing. A place of kindness and trust, a place of tears and laughter too. I’m glad to share that circle with a special friend like you.

Share these Happy Friendship quotes with others. Send a friendship wish or message to that special person in your life. While we may sometimes take our friends for granted it is important to express our appreciation and thanks for them.

Friendship sms in Nepali for Girlfriend: Message, Shayari

Timro maya ma dui pal ko jindagi 6 dherai

Ek pal ko khusi, ek pal ko hanso 6 dherai

Malai duniya le pahachanos ya na pahachanos

Timi le diyeko mitra ma sanga 6 dherai

Happy Friendship Day

Timi 6au ma ma shamabesh mero ragat ko jasto

Timro tada ko kalpana garu ma ta kasari garun

Chahe tada jau ya najik timi 6au yo sansar ma

Timro aasha 6 malai bhane maru ma kasari

Happy Friends Day

Friendship Quotes in Nepali Language: Message, Shayari

Kura yasto gar ki bhawana kahilyai kam na hos

Kalpana gara ki nai na haraos

Dil ma aafno yati thau dinu malai ki

Adhuro ra khali lagos ma na bhayeko bela ma

Nepali Best 50 Friendship SMS

Friendship Messages in Nepali language: quotes, Shayari

Harek din yo mutu eklai hunchha

Harek ek pal usko bina adhuro hunchha

Kohi yad garchha ta kohi bhuli dinchha

Tar harek ek friend jarui hunchha

Jindagi ki bato ma jab aghi aghi janchhau

Pachi pachhi chhaya timi harek pal pauchhau

Farker herda timi le bhawana hunechha

Yadi mahsus garyau bhane malai pauchhau

Friendship Messages in Nepali: Message, Shayari No. 6

Kanda ko badala phool k dinchhau

Aanshu ko badala khusi ke dichhau

Maile chahe timi sanga jindagi bhari mitrata

Mero yo sms ko jabab k dinchhau

E barsa ali rukiyer barsinu

Jab mero sathi aauchha ta bessari barsinu

Pahile na barsinu ki u aauna na sakos

Feri yasari barsinu ko u jana na sakos

Good bye sadhai ko lagi hudaina

Good bye antim samma hudaina

Good bye ko matlab hunchha

Miss you… jab samma ma feri vet hudaina

Friendship Messages in Nepali: Message, Shayari

Prasiddha hunu tar abhimani na hunu

Safalto ko nasha ma beimani na hunu

Mili gaye sara sansar timi lai tar yasko lagi

Aafant dekhi kahilyai tada na hunu

Friendship day sms in Nepali language: Message, Shayari

Garin mitrata timi sanga kasaile bhaner

Banayin nata ma timi sanga aanshu bagayer

Maile dekhe timro dil lai

Ra mitra ganse dil ko bhanai suner

Friendship day sms in Nepali language: Message, Shayari No. 11

Mitra ko kami ko pahachaneko chhu ma

Duniya ko dukh lai pani janeko chhu ma

Timi jasto mitra ko chha sahara

Aaj pani haser bachna janeko chhu ma

Lovely Friendship sms in Nepali for Facebook: Messages, Shayari

Yathartha ma prem ko bichhod pani bhai halchha

Kahilyai kahi maya prem ma tutfut bhai halchha

Mero tarf bat hat badhayer ta hera

Mitrata ma kati satyata bhawana hunchha

Best Wishes to All of You Friends

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नेपालमा पर्यटनको बारेमा निबन्ध | Tourism in Nepal Essay in Nepali |

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नेपालमा पर्यटन को बारेमा निबन्ध 150 शब्दमा

वर्षौंको दौडान पर्यटन फस्टाउन उद्योगको रूपमा विकसित भएको छ। सिंगापुर, क्यारिबियन, जापान, हंगकंग (अहिले चीनको अधीनमा), थाइल्याण्ड र यहाँसम्म कि मलेसिया जस्ता साना देशहरूले पनि पर्यटकहरूको आयको साथ ठूलो प्रगति गरेका छन्।

नेपालमा सरकार र जनतामा पर्यटनबाट हुने आय त्यस्ता देशहरूको तुलनामा आंशिक मात्र हुन्छ। यसका लागि धेरै कारणहरू हुन सक्छन्।

प्रभावकारी र ठोस कदम चालेमा नेपालको पर्यटन एक व्यावहारिक उद्योग बन्न सक्छ। सबै अवरोध र उत्पीडन जुन पर्यटकहरूलाई डराउँदछन् हटाउनु पर्छ। पर्यटन मामिलाको केन्द्रमा रहेका व्यक्तिहरू जस्तै पर्यटन मन्त्रालयका अधिकारीहरू, एम्पोरियम-होटेलियर्सका मालिकहरू आदिलाई शिष्टाचारि हुनुपर्दछ र पर्यटकहरूलाई दिइनु पर्ने आदर्श व्यवहारको ज्ञान पनि हुनुपर्दछ।

नेपाल पर्यटकहरु को लागी असंख्य आकर्षण छ। देशभरि धेरै सुन्दरता र दर्शनीय ठाउँहरू छन्। ठूला शहरहरूमा धेरै राम्रा होटलहरू छन् र त्यहाँ राजमार्गमा टुरिष्ट कम्प्लेक्सहरू छन्। त्यहाँ धेरै स्थानहरू छन् जहाँ पर्यटकहरूले साहसिक खेलहरूको मज्जा लिन सक्छन्। नेपालमा यति धेरै प्राचीन मन्दिरहरू, मस्जिदहरू, किल्लाहरू र अन्य ऐतिहासिक स्थानहरू छन् जुन विभिन्न देशका पर्यटकहरू हेर्न जान चाहन्छन्।

हाम्रो दूतावासहरूले सबै महत्त्वपूर्ण चीजहरू मानिस र सरकारहरूलाई अन्य देशहरूको वस्तुहरू र स्थानहरूका बारे आपूर्ति गर्नुपर्दछ जुन पर्यटकहरूलाई आकर्षित गर्न सक्दछन्। पर्यटकको आगमन र नेपालमा बस्न सकेसम्म सजिलो, पहुँचयोग्य र बढी सजिलो भएको हुनुपर्दछ।

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नेपालमा पर्यटन को बारेमा निबन्ध 200 शब्दमा

पर्यटन संसारको एक ठूलो उद्योग को रूप मा उदाएको छ। विगत दुई दशकको अवधिमा द्रुत गतिमा विकास भइरहेको यस संस्थाले आज विश्वको उत्पादनको प्रतिशत भन्दा बढी हिस्सा ओगटेको छ र विश्वव्यापी रूपमा करीव १५० करोड मानिसहरूलाई रोजगार दिन्छ। दोस्रो विश्वयुद्धको अन्त्य देखि, यो विशाल राजस्व र वृद्धि सम्भावित विकास र आज एक अद्वितीय प्राकृतिक नवीकरणीय स्रोत उद्योग को रूप मा खडा छ।

पर्यटन — यात्रामा आधारित मनोरन्जनले मानिसहरूलाई परिवर्तन गर्ने ठाउँहरू र दैनिक जीवनको एकलताबाट विश्राम प्रदान गर्दछ। यसले विभिन्न राष्ट्रका मानिसहरूलाई एक साथ ल्याउँदछ, तिनीहरूलाई एक अर्काको परम्परा र जीवनको अन्य पक्षहरूको नजिकको सम्पर्कमा आउन अनुमति दिदै। यसले सुन्दर देशको प्राकृतिक सौन्दर्य र विगतका सम्पदालाई अन्य देशहरूका लागि देखाउँदछ। प्रक्रियामा प्राप्त ज्ञान र अनुभवले अझ बढी समझ र सहिष्णुता निम्त्याउन सक्छ र विश्व शान्तिको प्रवर्धन पनि गर्न सक्दछ।

पर्यटन सामाजिक, सांस्कृतिक वा वातावरणीय अवरोध पैदा गर्न सक्छ। सबैभन्दा ठूलो चिन्ता भनेको वातावरणलाई हुने क्षतिको हो। अधिक पर्यटकहरूलाई आकर्षित गर्न, विशाल रिसोर्टहरू निर्माण गरिन्छन् जुन स्थानीय आर्किटेक्चरल शैली वा ईकोलजीलाई ध्यानमा राख्दैनन्। अन्धाधुन्ध निर्माण र पर्यटकलाई पानी र फोहोर मैला सुविधा र मनोरञ्जनात्मक व्यवस्था प्रदान गर्ने प्रयासको परिणामस्वरुप प्राकृतिक प्रणालीहरु नष्ट हुनेछन्। वातावरणीय स्रोतहरूको अत्यधिक प्रयोगले पारिस्थितिक सन्तुलनलाई बाधा पुर्‍याउँछ।

सुरक्षित पर्यटन प्रवर्द्धन गर्न यो एक लाभदायक उद्योग नै रहेको सुनिश्चित गर्दै पर्यटनको बृद्धिमा अवरोध पैदा गर्ने कारकहरू बुझ्नु र प्रभावकारिता बुझ्नु आवश्यक छ।

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नेपालमा पर्यटन को बारेमा निबन्ध 250 शब्दमा

पर्यटनको अर्थ आनन्द, मनोरंजन, दृश्यावलोकन इत्यादिको लागि भ्रमण गर्नु भन्ने हो । संस्कृति, कला, ऐतिहासिक एवम्, धार्मिक स्थलहरू पनि पर्यटकहरूलाई आकर्षित गर्दछन् । नेपालका हिममंडित शिखहरू, हिमनदी, नदी, गुफा, ताल, मन्दिर, स्तूप, प्राकृतिक वनस्पति तथा जनावरहरूको कारण पर्यटकहरूका लागि यो स्वर्ग हो ।

पर्यटन दुई प्रकारका हुन्छन् - एक आन्तरिक पर्यटन र दोस्रो अन्तर्राष्ट्रिय पर्यटन । जब कुनै नेपाली देशको एक भागबाट अर्को भागको भ्रमण गर्छ भने त्यो आन्तरिक पर्यटन हो । अन्य देशको भ्रमणलाई अन्तर्राष्ट्रिय पर्यटन भनिन्छ ।

नेपालमा पर्यटनको ठूलो महत्त्व हुन्छ । यो कैयन् विधिबाट उपयोगी हुन्छ । सर्वप्रथम यो विदेशी मुद्राको एउटा मुख्य स्रोत हो । हाम्रो देशले पर्यटकहरूबाट होटल , रेस्टुराँ ट्रेवल एजेन्सी , ट्रेकिंग एजेन्सीहरू इत्यादिको माध्यमद्वारा रुपियाँ आर्जन गर्छ । दोस्रो कुरा , हामी पर्यटकहरूको संस्कृतिका राम्रा राम्रा कुराहरू ग्रहण गर्दछौं र हाम्रो संस्कृति पर्यटकहरूका साथ अन्य देशहरूमा जान्छ । यस प्रकार संस्कृतिको आदान - प्रदान हुन्छ । त्यस्तै पर्यटकहरू हाम्रो सामाजिक प्रथा, शिष्टाचार र रहन - सहनसँग परिचित हुन्छन् । तेस्रो कुरा, पर्यटनसँग सम्बन्धित उद्योगहरू विकसित हुन्छन् । पर्यटकहरूका लागि स्तरीय होटेल, रेस्टुराँ इत्यादिको स्थापना हुन्छ । चौथो कुरा, हाम्रो हस्तकलाबाट मुग्ध भई उनीहरू किन्छन् । माग देखेर यस्ता सुन्दर वस्तुहरूको उत्पादन अत्यधिक परिमाणमा हुन्छ । पाँचौ कुरा, पर्यटनले अन्य देशहरूका साथ राम्रो सम्बन्धको स्थापना गर्दछ ।

नेपालमा पर्यटन वि.सं. २००८ सालदेखि प्रारम्भ भएको हो , जब नेपाल अन्तर्राष्ट्रिय पर्यटन संघको सदस्य भयो । वि.सं .२०१४ मा २,०५६ पर्यकटहरू नेपाल आए । त्यसपछि पर्यटकको संख्या बढीरहेको छ । वि.सं. २०४८ सम्म २ ९, २ ९ ५ पर्यटक नेपालमा आए । सन् १ ९९ ८ मा समस्त ' नेपालमा नेपाल भ्रमण वर्ष १ ९९ ८ ' नामक उत्सव मनाइयो । अनेकौं समस्याहरूको बावजूद पनि नेपाल पर्यटनमा प्रगति गरिरहेको छ ।

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नेपालमा पर्यटन को बारेमा निबन्ध 300 शब्दमा

देशका विभिन्न स्थानहरूमा र विदेशमा विशेष लक्षहरू र दृष्टिकोणका साथ यात्रा र त्यस ठाउँका सबै घटनाहरू पत्ता लगाउन र अनुभव गर्न पर्यटन भनिन्छ। यद्यपि मानव समाजमा प्राचीन कालदेखि नै पर्यटन व्याप्त छ, तर यसले समयको साथ अभूतपूर्व घटनाक्रमको अनुभव गरेको छ। आधुनिक मानव जीवनमा पर्यटनले महत्त्वपूर्ण भूमिका खेलेको छ। आजकल पर्यटन कुनै व्यक्तिको कल्पनामा सीमित छैन। आधुनिक युगमा यसलाई उद्योग मानिन्छ। विश्वका अधिकांश देशहरूले पर्यटन उद्योगको विकासको लागि कदम चालेका छन्।

हाम्रो देशमा पर्यटनका लागी धेरै सम्भावना र बाटोहरु छन। हाम्रो देश प्राकृति विविधताले भरिएको देश हो र यहाँ विभिन्न प्रकारका प्राकृतिक परिवर्तनहरु देखिन सकिन्छ। बिश्वको चौध वटा ठुलो शिखरहर मध्ये आठ वटा नेपाल मा छन जुन बिश्व कै ठुलो हिमाल सगरमाथा हो। हाम्रो देश सुन्दर वन जङ्गल, पशुपंक्षि र संस्कृतिले भरिएको छ। जहाँ पर्यटकको लागि धेरै आकर्षक को केन्द्र बनेको छ।

पर्यटन को फाइदा:

पर्यटन को क्षेत्र धेरै व्यापक छ। पृथ्वीको सतहमा कहिँ पनि यात्रा गर्न यो पर्याप्त छ। विभिन्न ठाउँ र देशहरूको यात्राले त्यस स्थानको सभ्यता, संस्कृति, सामाजिक चलनहरू आदिको सही ज्ञान दिन्छ। पर्यटकहरूले यी सबैको फाइदा लिन्छन्। तसर्थ, पर्यटनले देशहरूबीच प्रेम, सद्भावना, भ्रातृत्व र मित्रता बढाउँदै शान्तिपूर्ण सहअस्तित्वलाई बढावा दिन्छ। पर्यटकहरु विभिन्न स्थानहरु को यात्रा बाट धेरै मानसिक सन्तुष्टि प्राप्त गर्छ । मानव दिमागले धेरै नयाँ ठाउँहरू र चीजहरू हेरेर र अपरिचितहरूको सम्पर्कमा आउँदा आनन्द प्राप्त गर्दछ। पर्यटनले विभिन्न स्थानमा आर्थिक स्थिति र राजनीतिक अवस्थाको बारेमा विचार सिर्जना गर्दछ। यसले पर्यटकहरूको आर्थिक विकास र राजनीतिक चेतनाको विकासतिर लैजान्छ। पर्यटनले धर्मको प्रवर्धन र राजनीतिक जागरूकता बढाउन मद्दत गर्दछ।

आधुनिक युगमा पर्यटन उद्योगको विकास:

आधुनिक युगमा पर्यटनलाई एक उद्योग मानिन्छ। यसको कारण विभिन्न पर्यटन स्थलहरूको विकासले धेरै पर्यटकहरूलाई आकर्षित गर्दछ। यसको परिणाम स्वरूप यसले अप्रत्यक्ष रूपमा राज्य वा देशको आर्थिक विकासमा योगदान पुर्‍याउँछ। त्यसकारण, आज विश्वका धेरै देशहरू पर्यटन उद्योगको विकासमा ध्यान दिइरहेका छन्। हाम्रो देश नेपाल यसको लागि एक विशेष विभाग छ।

मानव जीवनको सबै पक्ष सुधार गर्न पर्यटनले महत्त्वपूर्ण भूमिका खेल्छ। यसले देशभित्र राष्ट्रिय एकता स्थापित गर्नमा मात्र सहयोग पुर्‍याउँदैन तर अन्तर्राष्ट्रिय सदभावनाको स्थापनालाई पनि मद्दत गर्दछ। यदि सरकार र जनता यस बारे सचेत छन् र एक अर्कालाई सहयोग गर्दछन्, तब पर्यटन उद्योग अझ बढ्ने आशा गरिन्छ।

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नेपालमा पर्यटन को बारेमा निबन्ध 500 शब्दमा

हाम्रो देश नेपाल प्राकृतिक सौन्दर्य उपहार, स्रोत र आश्चर्यमा धनी छ। त्यहाँ सांस्कृतिक, ऐतिहासिक र धार्मिक महत्त्वका धेरै स्थानहरू र चीजहरू छन्। सगरमाथा, विश्वको सबैभन्दा अग्लो शिखर नेपालमा छ। हामी यसमा गर्व गर्छौं। हिउँले ढाकिएको पहाड चुचुरो, सुन्दर जल स्रोत, सम्मोहन सौन्दर्यको हरियो वन, वनस्पति र जीव जन्तु आदिले हरेक वर्ष धेरै पर्यटकहरूलाई प्रलोभनमा पार्छन्। हामीले पर्यटन आकर्षण गर्न शान्तिमय वातावरण कायम राख्न सकेका छौं।

नेपाल पर्यटन प्रबर्द्धनका लागि उपयुक्त ठाउँका रूपमा परिचित छ। हाम्रो देश प्रकृतिले सजिएको देश हो। प्रकृतिले हामीलाई धेरै चीजहरू प्रदान गरेको छ जुन पर्यटकहरूले मन पराउँछन्। केहि पर्यटकहरु यहाँ प्राकृतिक सुन्दरता र आश्चर्यको आनन्द लिन आउँछन्। ती मध्ये केही पर्वतारोहण र पर्वतारोहणका लागि हाम्रो देश भ्रमण गर्छन्। केही हाम्रो इतिहास, संस्कृति, धर्म आदिका बारे मा केहि जान्न चाहान्छन्।

हामी देख्न सक्छौं कि केही पर्यटक यहाँ छुट्टीको मजा लिन आउँछन्। धेरै टूरिस्टहरू ट्रिपिंग र पर्वतारोहणका लागि प्राकृतिक सौन्दर्यहरू र खोज्नेहरूलाई खुशी भेटाउछन। हाम्रो इतिहास, संस्कृति, यसको बारेमा रमाइलो गर्नको लागि र हाम्रो पवित्रताको सम्बन्धमा जन्नका लागि नेपाल आउँछन्।

पर्यटनले नेपालमा महत्वपूर्ण भूमिका खेल्छ। हामी यसबाट धेरै फाइदा लिन सक्छौं। पहिलो, हामी विदेशी मुद्रा कमाउन सक्छौं जुन हाम्रो विकासको लागि प्रयोग गर्न सकिन्छ। धेरै मानिस पर्यटन सम्बन्धित कार्यालयहरु मा रोजगार छन्। यसैले यसले बेरोजगारीका समस्याहरूलाई कम गर्न मद्दत गर्दछ। पर्यटकहरूले हाम्रो सामानहरू, क्यारिजहरू र हाम्रो देशको मूल लेखहरू खरीद गर्छन्।

परिणाम स्वरूप, हाम्रो कुटीर उद्योगहरूले लाभ लिन सक्दछन्। पर्यटनले हाम्रो होटेल उद्योगलाई मद्दत गर्दछ। तिनीहरू राम्रा होटलहरूमा बस्न चाहन्छन्। धेरै महँगो र राम्रा होटलहरूले उनीहरूलाई सेवाहरू प्रदान गर्दै आएका छन्। त्यस्तै गरी, धेरै पर्यटक गाइडहरू र भरियाहरू यसमा कार्यरत छन्।

हामी पर्यटकहरूबाट उनीहरूको भाषाहरू, संस्कृति र परम्परा सिक्न सक्छौं। तिनीहरूले हामीबाट धेरै कुरा पनि सिक्छन्। हाम्रो राष्ट्रको ख्याति र महिमा चौडा हुन्छ किनकि उनीहरू उनीहरूका साथीहरू र आफन्तहरूका लागि उनीहरूको उपलब्धी हुन सक्छन्। हाम्रो देश नेपाल विश्वको बाँकी भागमा परिचित हुनेछ। जब तिनीहरूले हाम्रो राम्रो संस्कृति, परम्परा र चीजहरू अवलोकन गर्छन्, उनीहरू तिनीहरूको देशमा यस्ता कुराहरू फैलाउदछन्।

पर्यटन को केही बेफाइदाहरु छन्। केहि संक्रमित रोगहरु पर्यटकहरु द्वारा फैलाउन सकिन्छ; यो यसको खराब प्रभाव हो। पर्यटन को कारण, केहि सौन्दर्य स्थानहरु प्रदूषित हुँदैछन्। हामी धेरै बोतलहरू, प्लास्टिकको झोला र अन्य देख्न सक्दछौं उच्च शिखरमा सगरमाथा पनि देखिन सकिन्छ । केही पर्यटक आपराधिक हुन सक्छन्। तिनीहरू यहाँ अपराध गर्न सक्छन्।

नेपालमा पर्यटन को क्षेत्र मा केहि समस्याहरु छन्। मुख्य समस्याहरू यातायात र सुरक्षा हुन्। अधिकांश सौन्दर्य ठाउँहरू दुर्गम क्षेत्रहरूमा अवस्थित छन्। हामीले यी सबै स्थानहरूमा जानका लागि सडकहरू निर्माण गरेका छैनौं। हामीले केवल वायु सेवाहरूमा भर पर्नु पर्छ। त्यस्तै सुरक्षाको समस्याले पर्यटकको संख्या घटाएको छ। त्यहाँ दुर्गम क्षेत्रहरूमा मानक होटलहरू छैनन्। हामीले पर्यटकहरुलाई नेपालमा पर्यटन प्रबर्धन गर्न सबै तहमा सुविधा प्रदान गर्नु पर्छ।

हामी नेपालमा पर्यटन विकास गर्नका लागि धेरै काम गर्न जरुरी छ। हामीले नेपालमा पर्यटन प्रवर्द्धन गर्न प्रयास गर्नुपर्दछ। नेपालमा फ्लोरिश टुरिज्मको लागी सरकारले छुट्टै कार्यक्रम शुरू गर्नु पर्छ। सम्बन्धित सबै क्षेत्रहरूले यसलाई बढावा दिन उच्च प्राथमिकता दिने अपेक्षा गरिएको छ। होटल प्रणालीलाई सुधार गरिनुपर्दछ। सरकारले पर्यटकहरूलाई यातायात सुविधा र सुरक्षा प्रदान गर्नुपर्दछ। त्यसो भए, अधिक र अधिक पर्यटकहरू हाम्रो मातृभूमि भ्रमण गर्न प्रलोभित हुनेछन्।यो हाम्रो राष्ट्रिय अर्थतन्त्रको एक महत्वपूर्ण हिस्सा हुन सक्छ।

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