How to write anonymous non-fiction when the details would give you away? [View all]
I'd like to start off a piece from a dramatic event and then expand into episodic stories. I can change the details, names, and places enough in the episodic stuff, but I'm wrestling with the introduction. I want the intro to take place on 9/11 and what I was doing and where I was doing it, but if I did so, anyone else familiar with the events of that day who was at that location (not NY or DC but a small, specific govt office) would be able to read it and say, "oh that's ____".
I'd like to be anonymous, but I'd also like to use specific details from that day that shaped where the character went afterwards. I can use the character's made up name and not have to refer to myself in the first person.
Has anyone ever struggled with detailed anonymity like this?
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