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Q&A How to make travel stories interesting?

I have some good, true travel stories. Things that involve guns, explosions, and all kinds of other good stuff. I want to write them down, but I'm having trouble envisioning how to present the st...

3 answers  ·  posted 9y ago by horse hair‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

Question fiction non-fiction
#3: Attribution notice added by user avatar System‭ · 2019-12-08T04:52:40Z (almost 5 years ago)
Source: https://writers.stackexchange.com/q/20154
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License URL: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
#2: Initial revision by user avatar horse hair‭ · 2019-12-08T04:52:40Z (almost 5 years ago)
I have some good, true travel stories. Things that involve guns, explosions, and all kinds of other good stuff. I want to write them down, but I'm having trouble envisioning how to present the stories. I don't want to embellish, and it would go against my ethics to stray into creative writing in a non-fiction account (eg. "the sun illuminated his eyes as he looked down his gun sight" is stretching into the realm of creative writing to me, instead of staying in non-fiction land.)

On the other hand, simply stating what happened: "Then I did this. Then that guy did that. Then we all had a good laugh." is boring.

So, how can I present my true travel stories in a way that is both interesting to someone on the Internet who had no association with the events the stories talk about, and that does not take too much creative license?

#1: Imported from external source by user avatar System‭ · 2015-12-20T21:37:37Z (almost 9 years ago)
Original score: 1