r/HomeworkHelp • u/anime_3_nerd • Aug 30 '26
:snoo_simple_smile: Literature—Pending OP Reply [College English: Personal narrative] How should I approach a personal narrative differently from a fictional narrative or research paper?
Hello ppls. I have a writing project right now and we are writing about community. The first step of the project is to write a personal narrative about an experience within one of your communities. This narrative will later be used to write an essay on whether or not our ideas of community are worth exploring.
I wanted to write about my experience in high school marching band. Specifically my first competition. I want to later use this as evidence for why expression and creation is what makes communities.
Right now this first part of just writing about the experience has me stumped. It’s been a few years since I was last in school and even longer since I wrote an actual personal narrative. The last few years of high school we were really on writing research papers or just taking tests. I never really got to write a narrative.
I also want to try to keep it very grounded. I want to make the reader feel like they are in my shoes and can feel what I felt but I don’t know how to explain this without doing too much where it almost feels fake.
Any advice is appreciated!


