Today, you are going to turn that into a feature story. It involves taking your best story and moving it into the lead paragraph slot of your feature.
Recall the story we read together on Mayim Bialik, the actress. It had this layout.
Here it is again, to follow along:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/23/fashion/from-blossom-to-amy-but-still-always-mayim.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
Paragraph I -- we learn about a house in Los Angeles that is hectic. It's a "neo-hippie place."
Paragraph II -- we learn the children sleep in the same bed with their parents and the mom is making vegan macaroni and cheese for breakfast.
Paragraph III -- we learn that the mom is changing into an expensive gown and high heels for an awards show.
Paragraph IV and V -- We learn the mother even wears vegan nail polish, because regular nail polish uses crushed bugs.
Paragraph VI -- We get the buried lede. We learn who "the mother" really is. THIS is where we get the who, what, when, where and why of the piece.
How can you do this?
1. Refer to yourself as "the boy" or "the girl" or "the athlete" or whatever title applies to you in the very early paragraphs, without revealing your real name.
2. Unroll the information. Tell your story in pieces. Tell us something in the first paragraph or two and another point in the next paragraph or two.
3. Wait until paragraph four or so to give us the who, what, when, where and why.