Lesson on writing 

A narrative text usually tells a story. In order to write a narrative text you have to use the narrative style. 

The group number two had to write a short story about Roman Britain. The workshop allowed us to  learn how to write a short story. 
 The most frequent difficulty they met was to use a language that was mostly similar to the English language.  Indeed the difference between the English style and the Italian one is that in the Italian language there is a massive use of verbs and relative pronouns, while in the English language you have to use the nominal style, made up of a frequent use of nouns. 
Therefore to improve your English sentences, after reading them again, you have to write them trying to reduce the sentences as close as possible to the nominal style. Further more in order to write sentences correctly in English, you have to :
   > follow the English word order : subject + verb + object 
   > transform your italianized English into the nominal style 
  > keep into consideration the text style

What is the priority to make a short story successful ? 
The  priority to make a short story successful is to use a synthetical language, because the story should be short.  Another important point to keep in mind is to decide how to make the story involving. The writer,  in order to involve the reader, has to recall the reader  into question on the level of character and so he has to decide the characterisation of the characters ( his/her identity, personality ). The characterisation depends on what the writer wants the character to be like. 

What is the difference between “to tell a character” and “to show a character” ? 
We can create a character trying to define his/her personality, characterisation, which may be built in different ways. The first is used when the narrator judges the character throughout adverbs, adjectives. The second is when the narrator has a large space to decide about the character's personality. 

What is a plot ? 
Plot is a literary term defined as the events that make up a story, particularly as they relate to one another in a pattern, in a sequence, through cause and effect, how the reader views the story.
An intricate, complicated plot is called an imbroglio, but even the simplest statements of plot may include multiple inferences, as in traditional ballads 

Speaking about the passive you have to keep in mind that you should use it when you want to focus the reader's attention on the process of what you are saying. 

Vocabulary : 

to go together : andare insieme, essere un ottimo abbinamento 
to be concerned about something : essere preoccupati di qualcosa
to be worried about something : essere preoccupato per qualcosa.
fault : difetto 
in place of : al posto di 
to narrate / to tell a story : raccontare una storia 
to transform something into : trasformare, cambiare qualcosa in qualcos'altro 
to correspond to something : corrispondere, equivalere a qualcosa
plot : trama
to outline : tratteggiare, delineare
intrigue : intrigo
to take a decision :  dopo aver preso la decisione
to make a decision : prendere una decisione ( prima)