ABSTRACT
Regardless whether you are telling a story from your own experi ences or shaping someone e lse’s personal experiences for publica tion, these are stories readers seem to love. Most nonfiction writers have experienced events in their lives that would make good founda tions for personal experience feature articles. One enterprising col lege student writer jumped out of an airplane (with a parachute) to
write a feature about skydiving for her biweekly campus newspaper. Without that frightening experience, she might not have had the right mood, the touch of drama and fear, and the right words for her first-person feature article about skydiving.
