Drive the Bus!

Take your readers for a bus ride through the scenery of your story. Don't tell about the experience. Let the reader observe and make decisions rather than acting as the tour guide and pointing everything out. This means don't go on and on about thoughts and feelings or share opinion.

Drive into the drama of the situation and reveal the story.

The reader needs a road to follow in order to connect with a writer's intent. Sensory imagery that involves sight, sound, scent and taste will interlace to deepen the texture of a story or poem.

Metaphors and similes provide images by referral or comparison. Drive your bus into the forests of situations. Ramble along rutty roads. Detail the squint in a person's eye or the thump of a fist on the back of a seat. Show the frustration of a bus window that's stuck. Reveal the color of moods.

Keep in mind a highway experience and drive your readers into the unusual.