Need help to finish a story . HEEEEEEEEEEEELP!!!!?

Question

I am a budding writer. I started writing about a story idea that seemed very promising then got totally and completely stuck. My story is a satire about a near future academy which –thanks to a revolutionary surveillance technology-is capable of studying sentient civilizations on distant planets. I created 3 interesting characters(religious female scholar, haughty male scientist, creative male pacifist with whole the religious scholar is in love) and I described the academy, the technology, a few interesting lessons gained from studying other civs, and then I'm out of fuel, unable to invent the struggle necessary to keep all stories interesting. Do you have any suggestions to keep my story going on?Some spice, some struggle or problem that needs to be resolved and gets the reader involved?

Answer 1

put the three characters in triangle love problems
with spice in gal partnership

Answer 2

Through a glitch in technology, one of them is sucked to a sentient civilization lightyears away, one that highly resembles EARTH !!! Hahahaha!
but completely ruled by fantastical creatures who are actually running the planet that the three come from. They are all part of one enormous SURVEILLANCE PLOT run by people who are even more ahead with technology, who wanted to start life on as many planets as possible and see what forms the creatures would take. These characters are the result of MILLIONS OF YEARS OF WORK. NOTHING IS CHANCE, EVERYTHING IS PLANNED. Now they are seen as merely toys, they need to convince the uncaring immortals that THEY TOO DESERVE TO LIVE!!!

and if this sounds a lot like Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy, I apologize. I do love that book.

PURPLE!!

Answer 3

I have a soft spot for beginning writers, and your story sounds interesting. Here's my two cents -

I absolutely adore stories which circle back into themselves on multiple levels. It seems that if your characters can observe individuals as well as civilizations, a huge array of possibilities can open up to you. One I kind of fancy is the possibility that all the worlds and people in them are simply reflections of all the others. Your three characters could discover similarities in the lives of others on the different worlds to their own, or something like that.

What they observe, however, may not be what they believe to be the truth - or it may clarify some things in their own existence. For example, your 'religious scholar' could take note that her affections are unrequited on the other worlds - or that they end horribly/tragically.

They could also observe a common problem amongst all the civilizations - something that begins small and avoidable, but grows wide-spread and unstoppable - then take it upon themselves to save their own civilization from the same fate - and through them, their other-world counterparts also save their own civilizations.

See? Circles within circles. My favorite :)

Answer 4

Call me a conspiracy theorist, but I love a good yarn about the government!

One idea for you is that one of the main characters find something strange, maybe a negative aspect about their own people that is affecting others directly or indirectly. When the protaganists try to warn somebody, they hit a brick wall surrounded by red tape. Then, their lives are changed as they come down around them!

It is a conspiracy theory set in the future! Lots of layers you can dredge into and loops for a storyline.

Answer 5

i did not end writing the completed novel and it wasn't very sturdy because there develop right into a 30 day cut-off date, yet I did write 50,000 words of a singular once it is the longest tale i have ever written. i'm now re-writing it.