: Re: Memoir on a coveted experience, has no conflict! What should i do? I am writing about my experience at place X-- a place that is coveted by many people, a dream come true of sorts! Problem

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I don't think a simple answer is available, but it might help to consider the following questions. Firstly, what is your aim in writing the piece? Are you trying to accurately record an experience or are you trying to persuade someone else to try it, for example? Who is your audience? Were they there too? What would they want to know?

Was there really no conflict? Did you feel unwilling to leave and return home? Were some ideas or values challenged? Was there no inner turmoil? Were you left in tears by the beauty of something?

On the subject of pace, I rarely find that a recount that covers a longer time has more pace than one that covers a shorter time, even though this seems paradoxical. It is just about always better to cover a day, or even an hour, in great detail, rather than try to cover a week or a month. Think of action in novels: the best ones take ages to describe just a few minutes of action making it really exciting and fast-paced, and the poorer ones take only a small space to cover the same action.

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