help me finish the story? please? i have come up with the 1st part. i just need a really basic plot or plan??

Question

Hunted

Alison breathed out heavily as she dropped her army green rucksack onto the slightly damp wooden floor. Closing the hotel room door firmly behind her, she looked around. The hotel was not really a hotel, it was a three storey cabin type building. Everything was wooden and damp due to the weather outside. The room was small but not uncomfortable. There was a medium sized bed in the middle of the room, a rusty radiator and a tiny chest of drawers pushed up against one side of the bed. The one small window was so steamed up that you couldn’t see through it due to condensation. The wallpaper was plain white, making everything seem bigger than it was. pacing slowly over to the bed, Alison sat down. How long had it been? She wondered. How long did she have?

For a few moments she stayed there, lost in thought. Standing up and sighing, she ran her hands through her thin, wispy brown hair and strode over to the bathroom. How did I end up like this? She asked herself in the mirror. Staring back at her was a thin, tired face that she barely recognised. The sound of heavy rain drew her attention to the window, she walked leisurely over to it and wiped a circle in the condensation. Looking through the window, she noticed two things. The first was that only one lamppost was alit and the second was that there was a man, tall and hooded standing directly underneath it, staring straight back.

The person at the lamppost must be joined by others. The story needs to be a suspense crime fiction story with a maximum of 10,000 words. Can you please help me on the basic plot or storyline? I’m good at description, I’m just not very imaginative. Please help!!

extra details: anyone can be the criminal, anything can happen as long as there is suspense, the plot cannot be too complicated, i need a crime for someone to commit that doesnt need too much explanation, anyone can commit the crime, the crime can be anything, the man at the lamppost can be anyone, even alison's wife, the people who joins him could be a person, or a gang, it doesn't matter.

Answer 1

I was going to say that it was too descriptive and you are overdoing it, then I read your last paragraph!!! You are not seeing the scene you are describing. Imagine it for real or describe a real scene you have encountered and you will write much better.

Answer 2

Alison should be running from the government. She should have accidentally taken a file from the local FBI branch. A file on the recent chain killings of local homeless men. She found the file at the bottom of a pile of folders she had taken home. She is an intern working towards her degree in Criminal Law. She returned the folder, but is under suspicion because the story leaked to the press and the main male suspect has fled. He was an agent about 10 years ago before going crazy. he just happens to be her mentor and high school teacher.

Answer 3

Feeling a sense of danger, she withdrew her Browning 38 from the rucksack.
Working for "The Military", she knew her way around a dismal hotel room, and training gave her the instict that she needed.
"Switch the lights on, open the curtains & run a shower, without getting into it" she correctly did.
The hooded person duly arrived at the scruffy door, announced himself as the owners son, wherupon she raised the pistol, tied him to the running shower rail with ripped up sheets from the disgusting bed, and left through the back kitchen door to the Pontiac Transam - Gov't issue.
Drove through the rainy night to a place called Geordieville in the next County, phoned her office, to be told to get on the next plane north.
None being available, she "borrows" an old Cessna 152 from a crop-dusting hanger nearby, and heads up to Jacksonville, Florida.
Checks into the Holiday Inn, after a taxi ride, on an AMEX card, on 32nd street, and all is well.
Until the "hoods" pitch up again.

Ah, I type from a similar experience.
All the best with the book, though !

Bob.

Answer 4

writers block sucks. take a nap so you can get away from it for awhile when you wake up more should come to you. I would give you advice but then it wouldn't be all of your work. good luck


The first was that only one lamppost was alit and the second was that there was a man, tall and hooded standing directly underneath it, staring straight back at Alison. It seemed as if his eyes pierced her soul. She knew it was him. She gasped and closed the blinds. Alison knew her time was up. Lost in thought and confusion she laid down on the hotels queen size bed. She stared at the ceiling and drifted off to sleep.

Just an idea..please don't use it.



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Answer 5

i think i know a plot you could use.

the person by the lampost is waiting for his mates and hand over something valuable and important e.g. crown jewels or diamonds. when others come along, e.g. other friends of alison's come and hears the news: queens jewellery stolen, or something. Later, they run into the person, who strangles someone and kills them. It turns out the person is a thief and a murderer and was planning to flee the country but it didn't work.

P.S.- that was so random. Good luck with your story!

Answer 6

This is good, but I am writing a book also. Thing is, it takes time, you cannot expect to do it in a week or two. Sometimes you leave it for a month and then a fresh idea comes to you. If you have come so far, I'm sure you can finish it off.

Answer 7

lets say the person in the story was a young'ish student type on year out/assignment and is visiting a strange distant country (tired from the journey) and is say in eastern europe/africa. The person outside is from an organisation who is trying to track her down due to something her father was involved in before ran from this organisation. Maybe he was in an underground movement himself and his past is catching him up or even he is already dead and the people want something from her. She may know where it is they want or just revenged. Hope this helps, just had a little thought.

Answer 8

I know its been done but your story seems to be leading to her being followed perhaps by some sort of religious cult? Maybe she could of stolen some artifact or had it planted upon her at an airport? then you could go into the cult trying to retrieve it and the true thief trying to hunt her down? A kind of torn between two sides wanting the piece back and her deciding who to return it to? Been done i know (very Dan Brownish!) but if it worked for him then?? hope this helps?

Answer 9

Read other peoples stories watch crime shows on TV copy some of their ideas. That's what I do!

Answer 10

Read one of Sidney Sheldons books and you may get to improve your imagination. that is a good story think more and you will have a good one in your hands, the thing is if we add onto what yuo have written it would not be wholly yours. you see the point.

good luck.