Now let's move to the main task: writing a stream of consciousness narrative. Stream of consciousness depicts the character’s inner thoughts, mimicking their internal thought processes. Stream of consciousness narration often presents a character's thoughts intermixed with text that is clearly written by the narrator. Write your own stream of consciousness story of 500 words or more. Try to use some of the narrative techniques that you saw in the excerpts from A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Mrs. Dalloway. For example, think about how you can use punctuation to set off a character's thoughts from the narrator's voice or to show how a character's thoughts change.

Use the following guidelines to write your narrative:

Your narrative should have a third-person narrator, a central character, and possibly other characters.
The narrative should reveal something about the central character (and perhaps other characters).
Spend time planning the underlying "story" before you actually start writing.
The events in the narrative should be clear to readers.
Try to make your narrative detailed and realistic.
You may find the free writing activity that you did in Part A useful in generating your character's thoughts. However, remember that the goal of this activity is to produce a narrative rather than to just stream your thoughts into sentences.