can anyone help me finish my story?

Question

okay, i have to write a ghost story for 50% of my christmas marks, and ive hit a bit of a block. this is what i basically have wrote so far:

this guy is driving through this forest, and a storm starts, he decides to take shelter in this hotel that he finds that is run by this blind woman. she shows him to his room and he falls asleep. later that night he wakes up to hear footsteps outside his room...



if you can imagine that sppread over 2 A4 pages, thats basically it. can anyone help me finish it?

Answer 1

I can help you finish your story. At the end put the following so everyone knows its over. "The End"

Coach

Answer 2

I can't help you finish it but I can help with some "idea generating" suggestions :)

1. What happens when he hears the footsteps? Does he pass it off as just someone walking by, are there other noises/movements that perhaps make him go to the door and open it to see what/who is there?

2. If he investigates...what happens...is there really something there, if so what? Is it just the old blind woman? If so, what is she doing? Is she leaning against the door trying to listen, is she starting to put a key in the door to get in...is she cleaning the floor? talking to someone/something?

3. Does anything happen within his room? Object being thrown, blankets being ripped off his bed? etc

4. Move to next day...can he talk to the woman, get the history of the place...ask if there is or has been any odd happenings? Can she give him the history and tell him in a slow, hesitant way, about someone who was killed, or died in the building or in his room?

5. Does he get to see the apparition (ghost), if so, what does he see...a beautiful woman in a flowing gown, a child holding a doll or truck, an old bent over man?

6. Does anything dangerous happen around him or to him personally? Does the old woman suddenly act as tho she can see? Is she even really there or is the entire hotel an illusion and the guy ends up finding he's been talking to a dead person who no longer exists and sleeping in a bed that burnt or was destroyed years earlier? ;) Tons of ways you can go with this ... all just a matter of putting the words together

Good luck

Answer 3

Try that the footsteps were actually the child of the old woman. He doesn't tell her who he saw. He continues to try to sleep. He dreams of a little girl's murder. He wakes up in a cold sweat. The door rattles. He opens it to find the blind woman there with a hatchet ready to strike! he says what the crap. She says that she's here to protect him from her crazy uncle who killed her nice 45 years ago. the man realizes that her description of the murder is a lot like his dream. He tells the old lady bout the dream and the girl. She gasp in horror and dies of shock. Th eman utterly bewildered. Stares in horror. The door knocks he doesn't open it the door knocks he runs to the window opens it and flees though out the night with the laughter behind him.

you can fill in the blanks and such i hope this helps some.

Answer 4

Come on. You can do this yourself. Perhaps the blind woman was the ghost? Perhaps the hotel wasn't really open, but the "blind lady" let him in? Perhaps it's the ghost of Christmas past? Just take a deep breath and let the ideas come to you.

Love, Hope, Peace, & Christ Be With You,

Cal-el & Black Canary

Answer 5

He assumes that it was the blind woman, but when he asks her the next morning she tells him she wasn't on his floor at all last night. He decides to stay another night and this time when he hears the sounds he peeks out of his room and sees a woman walking down the hall, trailing smoke behind her. She doesn't seem to see him and just keeps walking down the hall. When she reaches the end she fades to nothing.

Try and work with this, maybe it will inspire you.

Answer 6

You could turn it into a haunted murder mystery. Here's some ideas...

As he slept in his bed, he wakes to find blood all round the room, like a murder scene. Getting out of his bed, he leaves his room to find people walking round with no heads. Walking to the Reception, he sees a hooded figure at the desk. Asking what is going on, he is bludgeoned to death by an axe. When the police come, they find n trace of any wrong doing, apart from lots of bodies with no heads.

Try that and see if you can finish it! Good luck and e-mail me when you've finished it so I can read it!

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Answer 7

How about he cautiously walks to his door and looks through the door's peephole only to find nobody there but still hearing the footsteps coming in closer and closer?

you might want to add detail too. It sort of helps keep the story going sometimes.

Answer 8

I would go with something like, making the person or entity he hears outside his room, the same reason that the woman is blind. Like, he or it collects the eyes of people who come there to stay, and has promised her that if she helps, he will give her sight back. So its a conspiracy.

Answer 9

the guy kept quit, not knowing what was coming. the footsteps got louder and more noticable. the doorknob twisted and unlovked. the old lady from the front desk aksed" how is everything dear?" "

"good good" said the guy

he then shuts the door.

Answer 10

well...ill try....
so he wakes up to see trough a crack in the door....he sees a glowing, red, evil eye staring back at him he turns around and tries to calm down.. finally he returns to sleep... two hours later someone knocks and he decides he should open the door .when he does he sees nothing...no one...he is curious and scared to.. he hears someone at the corner and starts walking very slowly and before he knows it ...cold hands are on his shoulder he screams and something makes him very tired..sleep...he wakes up to see the blind lady walking by ..he follows her but when she turns around the same glowing eye is looking at him...he tries to get out of there but all the doors are looked ...he begins to hear footsteps again and a voice saying i can help let me help......




that's all i got..

Answer 11

i did no longer end writing the entire novel and it wasn't very stable by way of fact there grow to be a 30 day cut-off date, yet I did write 50,000 words of a unique as quickly as that's the longest tale i've got ever written. i'm now re-writing it.