I need help

[foxylady2]

I am looking for help to turn this part of the story into a novel but I do not know how. My idea is this it is about a wife being kidnapped and she is the payback. Why? because her husband had lost a lot of money in playing poker at a casino to a rich man who owns a manison etc. Here is the paragraph just to give you an idea. She had just been kidnapped by two masked men at her office and was brought to his manison. Should I have put this some where else in the forum or is this place fine. 9 I don`t think I am never going to complete it sigh 0 It a romance story not erotic.


When Julia awoke from her forced sleep and opened her eyes, she saw a tall man standing in front of her. Watching her. She tried to wriggle free but her hands and feet were tied to a chair.
“Where am I?” she asked, but the man did not answer. She felt sick. It was the chloroform. ”I think I am going to be sick.” she said. The man rushed over with a basin and placed it on her lap. No sooner as he had done so Julia vomited.
“That’s it.” the man said softly. “Bring it all up.”
When she had finished. She was crying tearfully. “What are you going to do with me?”
“Nothing..” he replied. “Nothing until your husband owe us money.”
Julia looked at him shocked. "My husband, what has he got to do with all this?"
“Don’t you know my pretty?” the man said, stroking her chin with his right fore finger. Julia winced at his touch. She shook her head.
“You`re the payback.”

 

[DocCIS]

That little blurb looks good to pull a reader in. Not sure exactly what help you're looking for though. Usually when I have an idea and start putting it to writing I'll let it sit in my mind for a bit as I think about how it will unfold. Eventually I just start typing, picturing each scene in my mind and keep typing until you run out of steam. After that, give it a day or so and reread it, fixing any punctuation and grammar as well as maturing the story...and then the later scenes come into my mind and I write more.

Eventually you'll have a story.

I'm not the best writer by a long shot to give you advice, so I'm sure a few more will pitch in to help, but what you have so far as well as the plot is definitely good.

 

[foxylady2]

Thank you for the advice I do hope that more people will help because I would like to turn it into a chapter book ( which I haven`t done before ) and
haven`t got a clue how to structure a novel. The idea above isn`t planned out its just came into my head. Normally when I write childrens stories I plan them out but they are short stories not a novel. So they are easier for me to handle. This will be a challenge for me and also a hobby.

 

[DocCIS]

I'm by no means an expert, but just write! Don't worry about structure or anything, just let the words flow out. There will be plenty of time to break them into more logical "chapters" and you'll be amazed at how they'll work themselves into the story without you even planning it.

Too many people get hung up on proper structure and format right off the bat and don't just write the story that's building up inside them. Let the words flow and worry about the structure and all afterwards. In my few stories I never intended them to be "chaptered" and although they're basically spank stories, they all seem to create a logical division where to put in the parts. Writing a long novel is the same way, eventually you'll find logical portions where you can divide them into chapters.

Let the story go and worry about the formatting after!

 

[snooper]

... Too many people get hung up on proper structure and format right off the bat and don't just write the story that's building up inside them. Let the words flow ...

That is one way to write. I actually do just the opposite, starting with a theme, expanding it into 50 words, then growing them into a plot outline, then fleshing the story a bit at a time.

I'm not right in any meaningful sense of the word; it is just the way my mind works.

As Rudyard Kipling said:

There are nine and sixty ways, of constructing tribal lays.
And every single one of them is right!​

.

 

[DocCIS]

That is one way to write. I actually do just the opposite, starting with a theme, expanding it into 50 words, then growing them into a plot outline, then fleshing the story a bit at a time.

Yup, everybody has their own style and uniqueness. My main point was don't get hooked too much on the technical issues if that's what's holding you back from writing. Let it flow out and develop what works for yourself.

For me I write and write and write spilling things out first. Then I'll put together a most structured outline where I want the story to go and clean things up...but as you said, everybody has their own method and needs to find what works for them...