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Draft your story.

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By this point, you have done a lot of writing

to develop a plan for a well-told story;
to come up with vivid details to help your readers imagine what happened;
to think of strategies for showing or telling the autobiographical significance of your event;
to try out a way to launch your story.

Now stitch that material together to create a draft. The next two parts of this Guide to Writing will help you evaluate and improve your draft.