Hey!
I am writing a story... and here is the basic plot- I am not telling you everything... just you know, the basic plot.
Here:
2 kids move to a city(Washington) with their parents, but the place where they will live in is haunted... I am having trouble with the ending. What will the ghosts turn out to be? I am really working on it, and i can't find the answer to that question! Please help me.... I was just planning that they will move out becuase it is haunted, but that is not a really good ending. Can you please help me!!
2007-08-22 13:52:38 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
Ghosts are stuck spirits. How about the kids meet up with a ghosthunter and help the ghosts to abandon this earth and move on to their just rewards. Do some research about ghosthunters. There are many sites you can use. Research is the key here. As you read this information, be thinking about your story and something will occur to you. Or read about exorcisms. Pax- C
2007-08-22 14:11:25 · answer #1 · answered by Persiphone_Hellecat 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Expanding on the relatives idea.... you could end the story with the family leaving the house only to have the haunting continue....until the parents confess to the children that the children were actually adopted when their real parents died in a car accident.....the ghosts are actually not wanting to harm the family, they are just checking on the kids (or they are malicious and trying to get the adopted parents to tell the children about them... after all the children are the only thing left surviving them.......)
You could even have a touching ending where the ghosts actually appear to the children to tell them they love them....etc.....
Or, you could go another way and have the ghosts be children the parents had before their current kids (children that died in a car accident/fire etc.) and the ghost kids are jealous of the alive ones....
These may not be the avenues you are looking for, but it may give you a few ideas!
Good luck. I'd love to read it when you are done!
2007-08-22 21:11:30 · answer #2 · answered by Jazeebelle 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Depends on what kind of feeling you want to leave your reader with. Happy - they make friends with the ghosts or they set them free. Sad - they find out why the ghosts are still here and can't fix it. Vengeful - the ghosts don't want anyone else in the house and do bad things. Try different kinds. Ghosts used to be people. What motivates them?
Let it mull around in your mind for awhile. Take a break and it will come when it's ready to. Could be a day - could be a year. Writer's minds work differently, so don't force it. Most of all, pick the ending that's yours, not someone else's.
Write on!
2007-08-22 21:40:27 · answer #3 · answered by Trumpettess Renee 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
How about this house is big with loads of spook - not just ghosts but strange stuff that seem to move for no reason. And in the end, they learn the reason of the house being haunted (someone had died there or whatever) and one of them can be possessed and it ends with the un-possessed kid killing his possessed friend in an accident (he's angry and frightened) and in the end runs away alone, out of the US and gets a plane to Europe - but guess what?! The ghosts have followed him (in case their secret is given out to the world) and the plane crashes. OK - this is my quick version - I like it - kind of
2007-08-22 21:06:22 · answer #4 · answered by Marc Hector 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well i am only 10 but i have written some great stories i would right that one day the parents went out and the kids were home alone they went to the attick and once again met the ghosts the ask what do you want ? the ghost replied what do you want you took our home now we have no space we just want you to go we meen no harm were killed now our sools roam the earth we want no trouble tell me how the storie turns out love FBTgirl101 PS sorry if the spelling isnt great
2007-08-23 21:51:16 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ends are tough SOB, right? Hmm. If you're going for something a little dark, I would make the ghosts people who lived in the house long ago (possibly the ones who had it built) and were killed for one reason or another and are buried near by (basement, backyard, etc) and want to be put with their families. Also, maybe they can warn the family against the descendant of their murder who plans to murder them for the same, demented reason. Woah, that's pretty dark. Good luck.
2007-08-22 22:11:37 · answer #6 · answered by megan nichole 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This is just an opinion. hm... for me, the climax of the story is: the family found a secret about these ghosts (I don't know what secret it is). and the ghost hunt them down. the family wasn't able to come out alive. then the mystery of the haunted house still remains unsolved. that's all.
2007-08-22 21:09:09 · answer #7 · answered by Kitel 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The kids tell their parents, but the parents dont beleive them. Then, their mom is taken away. The dad is forced to beleive them, and they become gost hunters. In the end, the mom is found, and they find out that they r in a new tv reality show.
2007-08-22 21:02:01 · answer #8 · answered by :) 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ghosts end up being long lost love ones?
2007-08-22 21:01:07 · answer #9 · answered by PlanetMercury 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
wow. uh, real good writing usually comes from action. too many stories delay the action weighing it down with history and other types of kill joy details. for a good ending to your story just write one action after the next. if you're "planning" outlines, unless you can still write spontaneously within a box, its already dead. :( Good luck
2007-08-22 22:17:13 · answer #10 · answered by SHE RAN FAST 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋