tiltedhead

hey ranger2288, i have a suggestion or two for your ending.
before crossing a street, he notices that a scruffy old stray dog is about to be hit by a truck, so he rushes out to save the dog and ends up getting hit by the truck and dying. and either the dog survives, or dies with him.

another one is that he gets home and goes through his mail and spots a letter from a relative telling him his brother died, after reading that, he spots another letter from his boss telling him he was fired. after that he slumps on a sofa and turns on the t.v. then it ends.

or it could simply end like an ordinary day with him taking a bath.

my last one has more meaning i guess. but you were mentioning that he hated his life. well, he could get home greeted by his beautiful wife and children. and it zooms out from him having a good time with his family to the outside of his window where a homeless man is watching him with a tear running down his face (this suggests tha his life isn't all that bad after all.)

thats all i have for now, play around with them a bit. give your character a life. ask yourself these questions. rich or poor? wife or single? house or appartment? those could all affect the ending in some way. hope i helped.

well, thank you =)
my english teacher doesn't agree

Sorry, I also forgot to ask if these have been done before. =)

This is almost like "Secret Window", maybe thats why i like it.

Hey, I'm Dakota. This is my first post and I thought it would be alright to introduce myself =)


Anywho, I have a few Ideas that i would love your opinions on. So i'll get right to it.


The Drawing

A story about a man who decides at the age of ten to start drawing a picture of himself and add more as his life goes on. He decided that every ten years that he would draw a little more on the picture to show how his life progressed for him. It would be broken up into ten parts, so it would have a duration of 100 years. Each decade shows a new side to the painting, a new perspective. Each perspective had its dark, or happy aspects. He lives life like any normal man, and any normal man most defiantly is not normal. And as he promised him self, he broke out that old picture every ten years and added to a new section. Some years are darker than others, but thats any man for you. He lived a very fulfilling life and it had many twists, But unfortunately, he died before the drawing was completed. While on his deathbed he told his wife of sixty years to complete the drawing as how she saw him. She simply drew a flower. (theres no plot for this one yet, just a basic idea)



The Stained Glass Man

A stranger arrives in london in the mid 1870s and nobody knows where he comes from or what his purpouse is. Since his arrival, strange dissappearences of various holy figures have been popping up all over the press. This of course has aroused the general public. At a steady pace, the bodies of the lost men were found in places of holy nature, each with a different vital organ missing, replaced with a stained glass duplicate.
(this one needs some explaining, the stained glass man wasnt always what he is, he was once a priest at the notre dame church, but commited an act of such unholy nature, that god himself put the curse upon him. He was turned to stained glass. He turned and made an agreement with satan, if he could colect all of the necessities of life, meaning all of the vital organs in a human being, he could be human again. So he sets out for london to regain his humanity.)


Picasso
An odd man who lives on a rooftop of an apartment building entertains the masses by wondering streets and parks displaying his utter belief that he is the famous french painter, picasso. He has been under this delusion since his parents died at the age of nine. He meets a handicapped girl and they become great friends. He moves in with her and her boyfriend. They whole heartidly support his beliefs and encourage them. But this happy little life turnes around when she goes to the emergency room for an emergency heart failure. Her untimely Death has taken a huge toll on picasso and Jim (her boyfriend). They become desperate for money, and eventually take up a business of stylishly painting stolen cars. (its quite hard to come up with an ending for this one, but thats the begining and middle.