creative writing - help 4 school!

[blondeatheart]

i have to write a 'non-linear' story (ie. something like the movies 'run lola run' or 'memento', basically not all in order) for tuesday argh! plz help i'm usually good with creative writing but i have a total blank for ideas - please help!!!!! i need inspiration

[berna]

characters can also be animals?? you can use kangaroos by making personification and write a story about what you thınk ,love order your unforgettable time..also these animals are typical to your country.ı hope ı can help ..

[blondeatheart]

lol actually we don't see kangaroos around here that much except in the outback and in wildlife parks
nah i want to use humans lol
i had this one idea inspired by a friend's story entitled 'the guy i love likes my best friend' well i suppose the title is pretty self explanatory but basically she ends up killing her best friend and then the guy and finally herself in the meantime she spends time in a mental institution lol i just thought it might be interesting to write from her view ie. diary entries what do u think?

[berna]

it sounds so much common..a guy u love,fells in love ur best friend...and at the end all of them died...ıf u come to conclusıon from a different view except the common way ıt maybe more ınterestıng..but accordıng to me,chose different topıc..thıs ıs lıke latın amerıca and brazıllıan story:)))

[blondeatheart]

lol yeah i do quite like that basic idea but i'm not sure the teacher would lol
plus it's similar to a situation i have atm so that wud b weird

[RobinHood3000]

Well, what usually works for me is writing as I normally would, but jumping straight into the action and filling in the exposition later. In fact, that's what I did with one of my short stories that I found was coming off to a slow and confusing start.

[Jay]

This is actually the only way I am able to write anything, start with the interesting/important things and figure a way to introduce them to the story. :D

I'd suggest you didn't write about the 'love triangle' you wanted to, it's rather too obvious. If you are definitelly against dropping that topic, try to think of something original for the 'beginning' of the story. You say you intend to make the main character kill her best friend, then the guy, and then herself. Though I can't see how that's original in any way, you could try to come up with something that'll get the reader's attention, if s/he starts reading and gets to the part where the main heroine is about to kill herself, explaining why and introducing the reader to the subject (the guy I fell in love loves my best friend), the reader will most probably go 'oh no, not one of these again', you can hope they will get past this moment and keep on reading... you need to somewhat 'reward' their reading by inventing something unexpected, something the reader wouldn't think would obviously follow. Try to put yourself in the reader's position: would you keep on reading when it would be obvious 'who the murderer is' right from the beginning? If so, I suppose you'd expect something more of the story than just simply telling what the reader would guess that had happen. Avoid being predictable. If you (in the POV of a reader) expect a character to react in a certain way to something, and the character does, all the time, I dare say you'd soon be bored with the book/story and put it away (or, in your case, it might affect your grade ;)).

Right, hope anybody was able to get at least half of what I was trying to say :p

[blondeatheart]

yea thanx good point but still it's only meant to be a short story

i only thought of using the love triangle because it would be easy to make non-linear but ur right it is predictable

i want to do a love story but that's incriminating lol
but i can't think of anything else

[Shannanigan]

I like the diary entry idea...you can still do a love story, but maybe you could spice it up a bit from the old love triangle idea? Maybe someone is psychotic...or maybe its a homosexual relationship? Just throwing stuff out there...I'm sure something will catch your attention...oh! Maybe there is a huge age gap in the relationship...whatever.

Anyway, you can do really cool diary entries, in my opinion...you can even write them in order first and then mix them up with the action-y bits up on top and finding nice places to cut and paste the exposition into...

help any?

[blondeatheart]

yea thanx i'll definitely use diary entries and mix them up a bit but i'm going for a completely different plot now, not with love as the main theme, it's just too hard for me to right about at this point
it's gonna b a thriller set in the future bout 100 years and the main setting is a roller disco lol those things are geat :P