Way to start a story: suicide?

Question

OK I want to write a story about a girlfriend and boyfriend who have a great relationship, about 16-17 years old. Then the girl finds out that the boyfriend is cheating on her and she commits suicide because she can't stand the pain. I have the whole idea but i just don't know how to start it?

Please help!
Thanks.

Answer 1

Start with the girl taking the action of the suicide, and let the story unfold as the flashback on her life that happens while she's dying.

Answer 2

Since you mentioned you have the whole idea it wouldn't be much of a problem. What is more important is how to built up the story. You can start by giving a description or laying down the situation how they first fell in love. They must have met at some place, could be at a friend's party or at a big shoping complex. What were they doing there and the situation that brought them together. What transpires during their beautiful times being in love. Then things begin to slowly fall apart between them. Describe the situation. It could be the involvement of a third party. Your story then could have options whether to end it with a simple ending with the boy leaving town to forget the sadness he felt because everyone seem to blame him for his girl friend's suicide death or you can spice it up to make it into a mystery love story or a haunting ghost story where her lost soul came back to haunt the boy until the final climax where it needs a lot of powerful imagination. Well, it could be any of those things. You can have a short story or a long exciting one just like a novel. First of all you must give time to think of a suitable title for your story because that is important for many of your ideas are with the title. For example, " Huanting Love" " The Crying Heart " or " Our Love Is Never Meant To Invite Death " Now, don't they seem to invoke imagination ? That's the trick, work on it, see...?

Answer 3

Do it like Citizen Kane or like a mystery. Start with the discovery of the death or the death itself and then have someone discover how her life lead to this death. That way it won't just be a melodramatic spiral from happy to sad to dead. You can reorganize, and have the observer learn of dark and light moments in the girls life. But the discovery of the reason why she died has to be gradual and fully understood only by the end.

Answer 4

make it a whole "flashback-reflections" theme, where she's already dead in the beginning and its the ex-boyfirend reflecting on what just happend the past few days,weeks, whatever.

i'd try it like this:
He just stood there in the back till the ceremoney was long over, then he walked towards the grave as soons as the crowed was gone, coming out of the darkness that was his shame holding a bouquet of flowers. "heh, what a crazy ride its been huh (whatever the girls name is)?" and a tear fell rom his cheeck.

lol, but i wouldn't know how your story is, plus im not the best writer XP

Answer 5

i might start up by utilising describing her emotions in direction of the international, in direction of the folk she is familiar with. perhaps she is on the roof precise and approximately to leap, however the story is spoken with the aid of her flash techniques of what she's been with the aid of. In her flash techniques undertaking the exterior international as a fierceless international the place the susceptible are crushed by utilising the good, the place in basic terms seems have fee not what the guy actual is like from the interior. undertaking wish as a delicate-spoken candy lady who needs not something yet good of folk yet in return human beings betray her. Make it that she seems to be chuffed in front of honestly everyone, yet whilst she's on my own in her mattress she cries lots eg say that her pillow each morning is moist of tears and so on. ok for the illness, she could be a paraplegic (disabled human beings), with non-functioning legs and is on a wheel chair. With this u could additionally upload to the story issues like human beings by no capacity giver her way or help her go the line and so on. those issues will make the objective audience emotional. i wish to work out ure e book as a precise broking of the twelve months. acceptable of success with it.....

Answer 6

You could start with foreshadowing, if the girl is to kill herself at the end of the story.

Read this chapter by James Patterson:
http://jamespatterson.com/excerpts_1stToDie.html

You could use this as a guide. He builds tension. Maybe that could be your girl character in the chapter. And then at the end of the story you reenact the opening scene in a different way but this time you continue it with her death.

Answer 7

The weather was fine and the trees had started their annual dropping of their leaves the nights and days were getting that its not long to winter feel and Mary was in no hurry to get home knowing that Mike wont be there as his study project has taken him out of town. He has told Mary not to wait up for him as he may have to stay overnight ~~

Answer 8

How about the girl realizes she is something special-- a female of the human race and her own person....and while she mourns the betrayal of her lover, she knows her own self worth and integrates the pain. Makes it part of herself, and moves on. How about that?

Answer 9

and then the boy starts to be haunted by the " Ghost of the Memories"

and He still can't accept that " Memories are Designed to Fade"

Answer 10

try to make the boy not to cheat the girl