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Originally Posted by bennelson
The misadventures, the why, and a bit of how to.
The road-trip has commonly been used as a structure for books and films. Ever read Tom Sawyer? All that was was a road-trip (OK, river trip...) with episodic adventures as they go down the river.
My life has been a bit of a "trip" the last few years too!  |
Twain's humorous story telling is a good model. But I think you mean
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, which continues the Tom Sawyer tale in a sense and features the famous raft trip down the Mississippi. That tale also has something in common with you, which is a social issue it wants to put front and center. In Twain's case, slavery and race. In yours, something about ecology? I would suggest brainstorming... not only about what the great incidences have been in your adventures but also about larger meanings--in addition to technical lessons--that might link your chapters. Even if you do not write narrative and go for chapter essays or vignettes, your book will need themes that link it as a whole.
james