i am writing a story i hope it can be a novel ..but the problem i started alot of stories and i dont know how to complete them...
2006-12-30 09:28:23 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
You have to know where you are going before you can go there.
Works the same with writing stories. You have to know how you will end the story before you begin it. Otherwise, you don't know where you are going.
2006-12-30 09:30:50 · answer #1 · answered by Alan Turing 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What you need is time. And if you do not have time, make time. Sit down one day, and look at you stories; they are not complete. Then, after you look at your stories, look at the world, and look at the things that you encounter everyday that you could incorporate into your stories. But before you can write, and before you can think, you must want to complete your stories. I have written may stories half way, and I have given up on many of them. Hope this helps; and Happy New Year!!!!
2006-12-30 09:32:05 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, its important to think up a resolution that your story can aim for. Perhaps rather than just writing as you go, consider a rough or possible ending/s first, so that you know whats going to happen. I find this helps me, if I dont know where my story is going I tend to get lost in it a bit and it just rambles on. Good luck
2006-12-30 09:31:34 · answer #3 · answered by purpleandroid 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i suggest planning out your stories before you start writing them...many times i have started a great story, just to realize that I have no idea how to end it...many authors dont start from the beginning anyway...they usually start writing the chapters from the middle, then they go to the beginning, and last-the end...planning is the first thing an author should do...trust me, it'll help you a lot...
2006-12-30 09:32:19 · answer #4 · answered by SJ9867 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This is a common problem and happens to most writers as they begin the middle of their story...the world is full of 30-page unfinished novels stuck in drawers.
The way to solve it includes research and understanding the controlling idea of your story.
You're blocked because you have nothing to say. When it happens to me, I research to stimulate the knowlege of the world of my characters. Once you know more about them, this is where they will spring to life. Ask yourself what they eat, how they pray, what their secret thoughts are, what they regret.
Also, think about what your story is about. Go and research that subject and expand your knowledge of it. As you research it, ask yourself "what if" questions. If your story is about insecurity, when you research this subject you'll learn about all types of mental illnesses associated with it. Then use "what ifs" such as "what if my protagonist's insecurity developed from maternal suffication?" then play on that (let's presume your character is male)..."what if he still lived with his mother and is 40-years-old?" .... "what if his mother died and still talked to him from the grave?"..."what if from the grave she still talks to him and is jealous when he talks to other girls?" ... "what is his mother is so jealous that she tells him to kill the girls that he's attracted to?" .... then you'll end up with Psycho. =) Research is what sparks this and asking these "what ifs" will also help you to avoid cliche.
As you research, consider: biographical, psychological, physical, political, and historical research of both the setting and your characters. But all this must lead to events in your story or else this will end up in procrastination.
2006-12-30 09:59:53 · answer #5 · answered by i8pikachu 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
start by writing your ending first and work backwards, if not leave it open and write a second book to conclude the first. alot of writers take walks and look at their local environment and things going on around them to inflence them. goo luck, happy writing.
2007-01-02 06:23:48 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
it usually helps if you know how it is going to end before you start writing. If it has a plot it should have a conclusion to the plot. Plan it before you start.
2006-12-30 09:31:08 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
think about the starting and the ending then put them in order try again forget about what you wrote till now. start over and make it nice in the way you like
2006-12-30 09:37:50 · answer #8 · answered by Hello 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
mmmm
hard one
have you ever done any 'story writting classes' I expect you'll find them at your local college
good luck
2006-12-30 09:31:32 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
well try to put your self into the main character's position and then imagine what might happen
2006-12-30 09:46:19 · answer #10 · answered by britty 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋