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Any writers want to help?

So, I've got an outline for a short story. I will probably make a short film on it some other time once the story is finished, but anyway, can anybody give me an idea on how to continue this story, we get dropped right into the middle of an ongoing sequence:

At night a phone rings in a phone box. A man answers it and brings it up to his face. On the other end of the line is a mysterious caller whom the man does not know. The mysterious caller asks the man a few questions. The man in the phone box is rather panicky and seems to fear the person on the other end of the line. The mysterious caller then asks the man in the phone box "What did it feel like when you done it? Did you have any regrets?" The man doesn't reply and there is a flash back to the man entering a store. He is standing in an empty isle and then a shop clerk comes up to him and asks if he is ok to which he eventually replies "No". The man tells the clerk to leave him alone. He walks to his car where he opens the boot and begins loading the shopping. Then, something catches his eye, there is something under one of the bags. He pushes the bags away and pulls out a small piece of paper. He closes the boot and sits in the drivers seat of the car. He looks at the piece of paper. There is a sequence of numbers on it. He looks up with a shocked expression. We cut back to the phone box. He mysterious caller is still on the phone. The man lifts his hand up, he has the piece of paper in his hand.

Now I know what I just wrote isn't detailed but does anyone have any ideas as to how I should continue and then finish the story off? I'd like a good plot twist but I've been trying for over a week now to come up with something and I'm just drawing a blank!

ANY help would be massively appreciated!

Thanks!

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  • 7 years ago
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    This reminds me of the movie Dirty Harry...you could take some inspiration from that maybe. :) An idea could be that the phone booth man (for now we will just call him Bob) is some Average Joe that somehow unwillingly became involved with this dark deed, murder or something...he is being used as a pawn to pull off this crime and someone is blackmailing him, threatening him that they will kill his family or something if he doesn't complete his mission. As for the mysterious caller, he could be either the blackmailer or a cop or both...he could be one of those nasty people who are cops just so they can do their evil things and be untouchable at the same time.

    I don't know. Just a few ideas. :) Hope I helped! :) And good luck--sounds great so far! :)

  • 7 years ago

    and then he comes back home and finds "april's fool!!!" wrote on his door, the man feels relieved but then opens the door (strangely is not locked) feeling relieved but the mysterious caller is sitting on an armchair (wearing a mask) and tells him is time he ends what he started... Perhaps a secret mission, war crimes, e research, a murder... And then i don't know you can intent a spy story or something

  • 7 years ago

    all I can say is make the main character die because a good author knows how to get a reader emotionally attached to the characters. Make the guy on the phone blackmail him and make him have to pay money r something. As you said there's not a lot of detail so its really hard to come up with something

    Source(s): Great writer and future author
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