Pitfalls To Avoid in Your Narrative Essay

These are the most common plot holes student make in their narrative essay. Take heed of these hazards, and you’ll certainly improve your narrative writing.

1. A character is unexpectedly in possession of knowledge or facts they were not in possession of earlier.

2. A character behaves in a way not suggested by earlier actions or expressed beliefs, ie ‘out of character’.

3. An event doesn’t logically follow preceding events.

4. An event takes place for no good reason.

5. An event that impossibly takes place in a world we have created. For example, a dinosaur sighting in a futuristic space age.

6. Characters fail to see or ignore apparent solutions to their problems which the readers and audience can clearly see, such as another door through which they can escape from the ghost, the alien, the police, or the mad axe-man serial killer.

7. A character might say or do something totally out of character because the author needs them to do it, to make the plot work — here the demands of plot are working against character integrity

8. The writer writes something that is contradictory; refuting what was said or happened earlier in the story.

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