So the beginning starts out:
A girl wakes up in the woods with a note next to her side saying that her friends and family have been killed injured.
What should happen next?
(This is a horror story)
2007-01-19 16:05:35 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
When she wakes up and reads the note, she feels as though the handwriting looks familiar, but can't quite put her finger on it. After she tracks down her family, who is being held captive in a house in the woods, they all seem afraid of her. In the end, the reader learns that the girl actually wrote the note herself, and that she has multiple personalities, and one of them is a psychotic killer.
2007-01-19 16:26:07 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I can show you how you can come up with ideas rather than asking others to write the story. You will feel more fulfilled, and your readers will too.
What you've written is called the "inciting incident". It's what starts your character on a quest to make things right. As your character continues the quest, more information is revealed and the character confronts further adversity and conflict. Additionally, the inciting incident sets up the dramatic question: "Will she find the killer?" or it might be "Will she also be killed?" There could be a lot more questions depending on how you want to progress the story. But each time you think of an idea to progress it, you must look to the end and decide what the goal of the character is going to be.
For example, let's say that her goal now is to find the killer and seek revenge. The dramatic question will be whether she gets revenge. In her world, this will correct everything that's wrong. But along the way, perhaps we can make it so that she also becomes the main suspect and also that the killer will kill her as well, including all her friends.
In addition to this, you need to think about your theme. If it is about revenge, then you can say "Justice prevails when we take the law into our own hands". Everything you write is filtered through this phrase. Tape your controlling idea to your monitor. This will give meaning to your story as everything is filtered to it and it will have great impact when she finds justice (or not!).
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2007-01-20 00:15:25 · answer #2 · answered by i8pikachu 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Many things can happen and are missing like, was she a rich girl? Was she poor? What time period is this in? This all would depend on what would happen, If your wanting a romance story then you can make it so a boy finds her and helps her out. Or you could make it so she lives in the forest and survives there, she could also go to a different town and start a new life.
2007-01-20 00:15:26 · answer #3 · answered by Laura 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You haven't done enough work on your own yet to ask for help, honey! You don't have a story, you have an idea for a beginning! What should happen next - she should scream out something significant that will make the reader wonder what it means or who it is, and hence continue reading.
2007-01-20 00:11:43 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
You haven't really written anything yet! Try writing so more. If you get stuck after that, than ask. If this is all you came up with, try making it a short story. Explore her feelings or her journey out of the woods. But, really, I can't believe you asked for help already.
2007-01-20 11:12:52 · answer #5 · answered by megan nichole 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i think she should go into denial then get a phone call from some man demanding a ransom for their safe return then after she pays the ransom her family comes home from work and school and she realises she was scammed
2007-01-20 00:09:38 · answer #6 · answered by wylted 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I heard an author say once that to write a book you should create the characters and they will tell you what to write.
2007-01-20 00:13:30 · answer #7 · answered by firstyearbabyboomer 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
maybe they were horrible in the past, but she has to rise past the differences and save them. She falls in love with the person who murdered them without knowing it. And then........hmm
2007-01-20 00:29:38 · answer #8 · answered by bluecolouredflames 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
she should realize that there is something fraeky wrong with her like she can't talk (is trapped inside her body) or has been dismembered
2007-01-20 00:14:06 · answer #9 · answered by purple 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm thinking you need just a LITTLE bit more than this.
Good luck.
2007-01-20 00:14:11 · answer #10 · answered by huckleberry 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋