Creative writing

1. Travelogues, Diaries,
Self-Narrative Writing

2. Travelogue
•What is a travelogue?
•A travelogue is a truthful account of an individual’s
experiences traveling, usually told in the past tense and in the
first person.
•The word travelogue supposedly comes from a combination of
the two words travel and monologue. In turn, the
word monologue comes from the Greek words monos (alone)
and logos (speech, word). A travelogue is then, in its most
basic form, a spoken or written account of an individual’s
experiences traveling, which usually appears in the past
tense, in the first person, and with some verisimilitude.

3. •What are the types of travelogue?
•A travelogue can exist in the form of a book, a blog, a diary or
journal, an article or essay, a podcast, a lecture, a narrated
slide show, or in virtually every written or spoken form of
creation.
•There are many examples of travelogues online in the form of
“travel blogs.”

4. How to write a travelogue?
•Travelogues are often written like essays, so they usually
consist of three major sections—an introduction, a body, and a
conclusion.

7. Diary writing
• Diary writing is a personal form of writing where a person
maintains a diary to write about his/her personal life or a
situation. Writing a diary is quite possibly the closest to home
and casual classes of composing. It can be written in any
language as per the comfort of the writer, whether English or
Hindi. A journal composing can be founded on an encounter, a
scene, a portrayal or portrayal of a certain occasion, or some
other thing or movement that the author thinks about worth
writing in his own journal.

8. • A good diary composing contains the spot, the date, the day and even the hour of
composing. For instance:
• Bangalore
• 16th July 2020
• Saturday, 8:00 p.m.
• A diary needn’t bother with any conventional heading. Notwithstanding, it is
discretionary. In the event that you need it, you can give an appropriate heading.
• The style and tone are for the most part casual and individual. Nonetheless, it
relies upon the subject. Now and then the tone can be philosophical and intelligent
as well. You can uninhibitedly communicate your perspectives and sentiments.
• As the diary is the author’s very own archive, the journal passage needn’t bother
with any signature. It is absolutely discretionary.
• You can advance your own appropriate style contingent upon the subject of your
composition.

9. • 19th Jan 2021
• Monday
• 9 PM
• Dear Diary,
• Today I went to Bangalore railway station, Yeshwantpura, to receive my uncle and aunt who
were coming from Mumbai. It was a bright sunny day. Sun was shining like a star. While I
and my father were crossing the Orion mall, we saw three elephants that made me
reminded of my Kerala trip.
• Last year I went on a Kerala trip, where we visited around 5 cities like Cochin, Wayanad,
Munnar, Kovalam, and Alappuzha. All the places were really awesome and beautiful. Then
we went to Elephant junction Thekkady, Kumily, where people go for elephant rides. I rode
sitting above the elephant around for 2 and half hours. Then we have also done elephant
bath and feeding. We took a lot of pictures with elephants. It was a nice trip and I still can’t
get over it.
• Vikram

10. Narrative writing
•What is narrative writing and examples?
•Written forms of narration include most forms of
writing: personal essays, fairy tales, short stories, novels, plays,
screenplays, autobiographies, histories, even news stories have
a narrative. Narratives may be a sequence of events in
chronological order or an imagined tale with flashbacks or
multiple timelines

11. •Types of Narrative Writing
• Linear Narrative
• Nonlinear Narrative
• Descriptive Narrative
• Viewpoint Narrative

12. • Linear Narrative
• In this type of narrative, the writer follows a chronological order of
narration. The fictional or non-fictional narrative is presented from the
beginning till the end. Bildungsroman (also known as coming-of-age
novels) follow the linear narrative style. ‘The Catcher in the Rye’ by J.D.
Salinger, ‘The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn’ by Mark Twain, ‘Great
Expectations’ by Charles Dickens, etc., are some famous examples of
linear narratives. Historical pieces, biographies and autobiographies are
also forms of writing that follow a narrative style.
• The movie ‘Moana’ is a perfect example of a linear narrative. It starts with
Moana as a little girl who is taught all about her culture and her duties
towards her tribe. This style perfectly supports the theme and the plot.
You see that Moana is always drawn to the ocean, identifies the purpose
of her life and travels across the ocean to save her people from complete
doom.

13. • Nonlinear Narrative
• A nonlinear narrative is one in which the happenings are not
narrated chronologically. This is the kind of narrative that includes
flashbacks. It starts at a point and goes back and forth. Most
suspense thriller novels and movies follow this style of narration.
There are also lighter themes that are presented in this fashion.
‘Wuthering Heights’ by Emily Bronte, ‘The Sound and the Fury’ by
William Faulkner and ‘Catch-22’ by Joseph Heller are some
examples of novels that follow the nonlinear narrative style.
• Stream of consciousness is a nonlinear narrative technique that
presents all the thoughts and feelings that go on in the mind of the
narrator as things happen. Through this technique, one can also
portray the character’s flow of thoughts in a realistic manner.
James Joyce’s novel ‘Ulysses’ is a well-known example that uses
this technique.

14. •The series ‘This Is Us’ is a great example of the nonlinear
narrative style. You will see the story of the Pearson
family always oscillating between the past and present.
Every episode is a series of events that happened on the
same day during the different stages of their lives or the
same emotion experienced by the different characters.
This is an effective way of telling a story as it keeps the
viewers always wanting to know more.

15. • Descriptive Narrative
• This is a narrative style in which the audience is made to see
and feel the characters’ world. In a descriptive narrative, the
writer uses descriptive words and phrases that create vivid
images in the minds of the readers. ‘The Perks of Being a
Wallflower’ by Stephen Chbosky, ‘The Song of Achilles’ by
Madeline Miller, and ‘The God of Small Things’ by Arundhati
Roy are some examples of descriptive narrative.
• Most of you may have watched both ‘Avatar’ and ‘Avatar:
Way of the Water’. The descriptive technique is used in both
movies. The way of the Avatar realm is portrayed in a
manner that makes the audience feel one with the
characters and the setting.

16. •Viewpoint Narrative
•A viewpoint narrative is a style of writing in which there is
the presence of a first, second or third-person narrator.
The usage of pronouns changes based on who narrates
the happenings in the story. The most common
viewpoint narratives seen are the first-person narrative
and the third-person narrative. Autobiographies are
written in the first-person point of view, and biographies
in the third-person point of view.

17. • ‘The Fault in our Stars’ by John Green and ‘To Kill a
Mockingbird’ by Harper Lee are examples of a first-person
narrative. ‘Little Women’ by Louisa May Alcott and ‘Beloved’
by Toni Morrison are two among the many examples of
third-person narratives. There are not as many books in the
second-person narrative as in the first and third-person
narratives. However, there are some that are wonderfully
presented. ‘Ghost Light’ by Joseph O’ Connor and ‘If on a
Winter’s Night a Traveler’ by Italo Calvino are novels written in
the second-person narrative. Try reading these novels and
analyse the kind of effect the different viewpoints have on the
readers.

18. •Piscine Molitor Patel (Pi), the protagonist, narrates
throughout the movie, ‘The Life of Pi’, thereby rendering it
an example of a first-person narrative. Bagheera, the
panther in ‘The Jungle Book’, narrates how Mowgli came
to live with the wolves and all that has happened and is
happening in the present. This, therefore, can be
considered to follow a third-person narrative structure.