I seriously cannot think right now. I know where I want to end up but I don't know how to get there :( Since inspiration can't be forced, I'll have to wait and see what I come up with. Anyways, here's what I have written so far...
Chapter 2
It was useless. Jason could not die.
The soldiers eventually stopped, and their cartridges littered the floor. They lingered there for a while, staring Jason down as they awaited orders.
Footsteps echoed down the hallway. The soldiers turned their backs on Jason and departed. Jason could care less about what they did. Nothing mattered to him, not as long as he was alive. Who would have thought death would be this hard to obtain?
The footsteps stopped in front of Jason, who stared at the man. He had lost all hope. Now, there was only an emptiness, a life devoid of life.
The man wore a white lab coat over a black collar shirt with a matching pair of dress pants and a pair of Brogues. He adjusted his thin framed glasses as he cleared his throat. The gold ring on his left ring finger caught Jason’s eye. It reminded him of something, a vague memory in his mind. He could not take his eye off it. The black skull engraving, what did it mean?
The man was scribbling something on his clipboard. Jason continued to stare at the man’s ring, determined to find something. If there was anything in life that interested him, it was that man’s ring with the black skull engraved on the golden surface.
“Your death wish,” the man began, “Is impossible. Ghosts do not die. They are bound to live, for eternity.”
Jason refused to believe it. For something to not be able to die, that had to be the impossible. If everything could die, then so could he. Death was one of the few things that welcomed all with open arms.
“I will,” Jason said coldly as he walked away, “Find a way to die.”
“A fool,” the man said to himself, “But worthy of study, and further experimentation. The potential is at its highest level yet, I cannot allow him to die when we’re this close from perfection.”
Jason did not know how long he wandered the facility, walking through walls, disregarding all physical objects, ignoring everything that breathed. If death eluded him, he would find it and take it by force.
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3 comments:
Just one question: When you say, he had lost all hope, do you mean Jason or the man?
And if you're in a writer's block...well...you could try what I do. I read other people's stories and I mull over them, taking little bits and pieces from each story and playing around with it, adding my own pieces in. By the end of the process, it's usually mostly mines, with some slight influence from things I've been reading.
Although, I don't know if that would help you. For some people, it helps to just not think too hard about the story for too long and then an idea just comes to them. So they say anyways. It doesn't work for me, but it could work for you.
If you know where you want this to end up though, you could think about what you want to happen in between; possible relationships you want to occur, events that you want to happen, and try to find a way to make those things happen.
Anyways, I hope what I've said can help, and if not...well, you'll come out of the writer's block eventually.
I've enjoyed Infected so far, and I can't wait for more.
unending pain's right. you should just let the story come to you. for example, I don't know how i'm going to get to the end of Life After (Untitled's new title) but i just let the story come.
If you think too hard about something like this, then it wont come to you. If i hit a block then i just go over what I've written so far,look at my rough drafts, and say : how can i get here.
Just try to imagine the story in your mind. start where you left off, and imagine what should happen next. that always helps me. Or maybe you just need to take a break, that helps sometimes too.
i like the second, more refined, version so far. its going into more detail, and i like it. i hope you don't give up on it.
Another small bit of grammar advice: When there is a break in a quotation, but after the break you're finishing the same sentence, you don't capitalize the first word. Example:
“I will,” Jason said coldly as he walked away, “Find a way to die.”
Find shouldn't be capitalized.
Liked the part about the ring. First I thought, the scientist is married? Then the black skull really threw me off.
As for the writer's block, I agree with unendingpain on one point...What I do is work on different parts of the story, and not usually in chronological order. I find that after I do that, it's easier to find a way to get from chapter to chapter, by linking the main events. My English teacher also gave us some tips last year to imrove our writing and overcome writer's block.
- Read
- Eavesdrop (Writers tend to be terrible eavesdroppers, but it does provide good material!)
- Research
- Copy something (I think she meant just to focus on the material you're copying and to gain something from it, not to plagerize.)
- Make a list
- Ask yourself why you're writing
These are just a few, and maybe not all of them will help. I say, don't sweat it for now. It'll come in time.
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