need help with the plot

[morgia]

Hello,

I hope my entry is ok here, I write since a long time my novel. Its a fiction and its written  in separate little stories for each chapter with always the same character ( a woman) and she has different adventures each time (each chapters has links with the others). I almost finished my novel and Im at the last chapter. A each time I find a title and then work with it to create the story, But since almost a year I can write anymore, I blocked at the same place: the principale character is with her new boyfriend, is the morning, they took a shower together, they eat their breakfast, they are happy then someone bang at the door.

My problem is: I don't know who bang at the door.  I have few possibilities

1-A old aunt who arrive with her bags

2- He deliver boy with a package

3- Three little scout girls for calendar fund sale.

Im a french canadian, I write in French, is a humor novel and my character is completely insane (in a good way she thinks...). The title in this last chapter is : And the winner is.,......  I know the end of the chapter and to the novel. Is just I can decide at who bang at the door and with that complete the story, I really need support to finish this.  

Soooo, wich one of the possiblities inspire you??? Do you have other suggestions????

Please I need help !!! lol

Hooo and I hope Im clear...... If not don't be shy to ask more explanations.

Thanks

Comments

[dechant]

The delivery boy and his unknown package sound like a plot-starter. :-)

[morgia]

Hummm, I think the delivery boy is a good possibility too.... Thanks to read and comment!!!! ;)

[magycmyste]

Personally, the delivery boy with the mysterious package grabs me the most out of those three, although I could see some very humorous possibilities for the old aunt and her baggage as well. ^_^ Well, and probably the girl scouts, too, but the mysterious package still sounds the best to me.

[morgia]

What's is hard that my character has to find money because at the end she will take a plane to help her old sister to find their parents who are lost during a seal travel.... (but she don't know she will do that at the beginning at the chapter.....) sooo, is why I decided she will win something... I had a good idea with the scout girls but each times I tried to write it, I failed..... grrrrr.......

Thank you so much to take tie to read and comment ;)

[paganpaul]

The boy with the mystery package sounds good to me also, there is a lot you can do with that. It could come from some kind of organisation who mislabeled the address, the package is not theirs to receive.

But also the aunt with all her bags... I see many possibilities for her: does she want to move in without notice? Why is she there in the first place? What happened to her? Depending on how 'old' and lively the aunt is, she could be the centre or a start of something crazy. People are good subjects for crazy things.

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Perhaps, and maybe I am making things very difficult now, so it is just a wild idea, you can use this last chapter to have links back to the very first chapter or strange event that occured, giving the book an atmosphere of being in a circle, or a roundabout. I hope this is clear enough. Otherwise just holler!
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Bonne chance!

[morgia]

Hummmm, yes, all good ideas, why my mind don't want to cooperate??? lol

I like your idea about the end.... I will think about that.....

Thank you so much for your suggestions, is very very appreciated !!!

merci

[sweet_sparrow]

The ending doesn't give you any clues whatsoever as to the identity of the person, I take?

Are they actually banging on the door or simply knocking? If you're certain that the verb you want is 'to bang', I'd discount options 2 and 3 as being people who'd be more inclined to knock or ring the doorbell. An aunt might have a conceivable reason to use that much force on the poor door. The other two... I can see the delivery boy being a good choice for a plot starter, but I just can't see a delivery person hitting the door that hard.

Alternatively, try to answer for yourself why these three (sets of) people are making that much noise. Maybe the story will spark from one of the answers you come up with.

I know, I know, I'm probably reading too much into your wording. Try writing a little bit of all three options and see which seems to fit best? I know that might be a little more work and not particularly helpful, but even if we all recommend the same option, you're the one making the final decision and what we think might not be what the story wants in the end. But that's fine as long as it gets you to finishing the story. You can always edit what doesn't quite work later after all. ^-^

[pd_singer]

The title suggests that the person knocking at the door could be selling tickets for a raffle. The woman could buy a ticket to be charitable and end up winning some completely awful prize, like a litter of kittens.

[morgia]

LOL Haaaaaaaaaaaaa I love your awful prize !!!! :)

[paganpaul]

*groan* You are so bad!! LOL!

[morgia]

Hummmm, right, I didn't think about the bang or the knock.... is a good idea.....

Yes, to know the end help me a little bit, but not in the way I want..... I want her at the end take a plane to be with her sister who search for our parent disparition a sealing ship a year ago.... so she don't know yet she will do that, but she gonna need money....

I like you idea of the alternative end..... and you give me the idea to mix all three possibilities.....

Thanks!!! Its help a lot !!! ;)

[kyoutenshi]

This might sound like kind of a cop-out, but I think the question of who's at the door is one you're more qualified to answer than any of us. If you know the ending of the story, and a good portion of what happens in the middle, you just need to see which idea would lead to the ending in the most effective way, if that makes sense.

If there's some kind of competition or contest that one of your characters has to win, or at least enter, you need to figure out which of these three potential door-knockers is most likely to provide the necessary exposition or be the catalyst for the contest to come into the story. What I mean is, between the aunt, the girl scouts and the delivery boy, you need to decide which one of them will be the means through which your leading lady will find out about whatever needs to be 'won'.

Does the delivery boy have a package containing information, or does the package come from someone who'll tell your protagonist about the event to be won?

Is the old aunt the sort of women who keeps abreast on contests/gameshows/whatever and wants your character to enter?

Are the girlscouts also running the contest as well as the fund-raiser, are they sponsored by the people who run it?


Hope this helps a little.

[sweet_sparrow]

This might sound like kind of a cop-out, but I think the question of who's at the door is one you're more qualified to answer than any of us.

's also true, as you know. You said what I wanted to say so much better than I did.

(Which, you know, isn't useful to the discussion at hand, but I wanted to say it even so.)

[morgia]

LOL Thanks to read and comment !!! ;)

[morgia]

Yes, thanks is help a lot ! I think is just I needed to have some stand back to see what I want with this last chapter.

Hummmm, in fact, yes, is kink of contest, but the title is not all refer to a contest...... Is more like ironic.... lol I understand me.... ;)

I think I will try to mix all these option.....

Thank you so much to read and comment, that's help me a lot to focus !!!

[attackfish]

Have it be girl scouts and have them be spotty teens. We girl scouts who made our way all the way up to graduation hate the way all the girl scouts in media are the young ones.