Writing Feature Stories

--Anecdotal features

--Suspended interest features

--Profiles

--Questions and answers

Feature leads should be creative, not simple statements of fact.

What is unusual? What is ironic? What appeals to human interest? What provides a good (and appropriate) play on words?

--More details and descriptions

--Use of descriptions:

actions

people

places

Show rather than tell.

More quotations and dialogue

Participant-observer

Parts of a feature story:

--Lead

--Engine graph (why graph)

--Body

--Ending