The field is full of toys, clothes, aluminum, an upside-down pickup with a crushed cab that must have flown many hundreds of yards. Some pages are torn. Whole chapters of Deuteronomy and Ezekiel are glued forever together. New and Old Testaments are filled with blades of God s green grass. Not just any old lip-flapping, but quotes that illumine and move the story.
Dialogue is best.
Even in short form. No, the worker said as he turned and went back inside. He returned a few minutes later with a charred piece of wood and metal that once had been a speaker. As you can see, this sort of revealing detail can be easily gathered with a little thought. For some writers, it ll take some practice before the thinking becomes a natural part of reporting at the scene.