Writing a story...?

Question

Im finally going ot take a crack at writing another story since Ive had writers block. But I'm having some trouble coming up with unique ways for the characters to die. (Since I want it to be scary obviously lol) Anyone have some ideas that I could add on to? They way they could die or who the killer could be. Thanks a lot [:

Just ideas off the top of your head is great since I plan on twisting them....Im thinking about somehow using dry ice in one. God Im odd...but sick minds make good stoies I guess

Answer 1

This is where research comes in. Every author should have a research library. If you write murders, it should include a book called Deadly Doses: A Writers Guide to Poisons. It is put out by Writers Digest. It will tell you hundreds of ideas. There are other similar books, too. Like Cause of Death, A Writer's Guide to Death, Murder and Forensics. You can buy them used for about four bucks each. They are worth their weight in plutonium to a writer. They are part of a series called Howdunit. You can get ideas regarding what doses of certain medications are deadly and what combinations of medications and other things are deadly. For instance, did you know that effoxor and wellebutrin - common medications used to treat depression can be deadly in combination with grapefruit juice? Or that someone with a peanut allergy can go into shock just from smelling peanut butter across a school cafeteria? Those are the kind of things that make reading murder mysteries interesting - offbeat little things you can come up with. Ignore the obvious. Find the unique. Pax - C

Answer 2

I love questions like this. Yes-- those "Writer's Guide to..." books are good. Also, you just have to look at the world differently, everywhere you go. For instance, when most people open the trunk of their car, they only think about groceries or suitcases. But you have to ask questions like, "How many bodies would fit in there?"

I just have to say this, too: have you seen the movie "Stranger than Fiction"? The author in that movie has the same problem.

Answer 3

Without knowing anything about what the story you
wrote is about, or what sort of characters are in it, I
don't know what sort of suggestions I can make.
But, if you know the story line well enough, then you
should be able to come up with something.

Good luck.

Answer 4

play the matching game you start with the charters name and ryme somthing with it then you say somthing related to it like bill=will=dill=mascot of dill pickeles is a goose= geese fly=planes fly= planes use fuel=fuel is combustable they can die in a fire in a oil rig (this can go for as many conections as you want)

Answer 5

Watch any of the Saw movies. That should get you thinking.