How should i begin my crime story? Where should i set it? should it be near a graveyard?

Question

i am writing a short story.

Answer 1

It was pitch black, the moon was barely seen through the thick clouds, silence surrounded the area, she/he could hear the thumping of her heart pounding inside her chest and she quickly walked past the desolate empty gaveyard. Then sudenly out of no where came a high pitched blood curdling scream, it broke the silence like an explosion, birds sleeping high up in the trees took flight at the terrible fright. She stood there, still, terrified, almost holding her breath, thinking that her lack of movement made her invisable.


There how is that??????????

Answer 2

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Answer 3

A graveyard would be too "gothic". An everyday place - a railway station or a sitting room would be more realistic. But it all depends on what you want to write about. Make a draft - or more - and the place that suits the story will lend itself. If you already have, then sit or lie down, meditate on your story, tell yourself the perfect place is coming into your mind within an hour and after cca 10 mins start doing something completely different. Something physical preferably, like doing the washing up or mopping the floor. Let the idea come to you unnoticed.
Good luck!

Answer 4

Hi Joey, That really great,you write short stories. Lets see...start it at a run down old 2 story house in indiana,yes by a graveyard would be great.now let you imagine the next part,and start writing.Make it a real dilly of a story,with lots of scarey stuff in it.Make sure you keep your reader guessing all the time.Good Luck A Friend.

Clowmy

Answer 5

any story, whatever it may be, must come from your imagination. for a crime story you need an antogonist, protaganist, crime, motive and evidence with which to solve the mystery. the antagonist is the criminal, the protagonist is the crime solver, the location for the crime can be anywhere you want it to be. but you must have a motive for the crime and sufficient clues for the reader to be able to solve the crime in a logical way. keep the clues simple, but well crafted and not to easaily discerned until the end of the story.
i suggest you read several mystry books and short stories to develop your methodology of solving the aforementioned requisites.

Answer 6

Try beginning your crime story in a place that seems completely normal... a place that your readers may well go every day. That way, when it turns out to be a crime story, it will seem like more of a twist, and it will hit closer to home.

Places like... a school, a library, a grocery store, a local restaurant.

Then... things aren't what they seem...

Answer 7

I agree with polish and dpemily. It's better to set your story somewhere less *obvious*, like a sandy beach on a sunny summer's day. That way, you build up a sense of nice normality and *then* hit the reader with the crime, making the effect far more powerful.

Answer 8

Start at the crime scene with all the gory details... then regress to the motivating circumstances... then back to the present and the suspense... then the denoument, and the resolution... then flash back to the forgotten angle that was not investigated...

... and then suddenly you have a series. Jack the Ripper tale it is!

Answer 9

You can begin with an old man sitting in an old house in the dark nite, when the authour comes to this old man as his vehicle's just broken outside this old house, then the old man starts the story over the meal tht he offers the authour

Answer 10

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