Why can't I start my story when I already have the ending?

I have the perfect ending to my story, but I have no story to go with it. Can you see where am I going with this? Here is my ending; & all that was left that frightful night, was a the torn picture, soked in the blood of the girl he once loved. & although she didn’t know where exactly he had gone, she knew she’d never hear from him ever again.

What can my story be about?

Answer #1

I would suggest using what you already know. Character building. You need a man and a woman or a boy and a girl. You can work out there names and ages nationality history family and figure out how and where they fell in love, then maybe something will trigger a sudden burst of inspiration.

Answer #2

You don’t understand… Thank you anyhow though

Answer #3

You could base it on a hidden love between the boy and the girl, as for example her dad is strict and over controling. Then you have her father finding out and have the boy and girl running away, only in the end to be torn apart or something like that. Hope it helps

Answer #4

I understand you don’t a very good handle on story structure. Building a narrative around an ending is like building a car around a leather interior. It doesn’t matter that the words that came to you first are words that you think would make a good ending, without a cohesive arc and relateable characters, those words might as well not exist.

Answer #5

Ooh, thats a good one… Thank you :] )O(

Answer #6

You can’t start your story because you’ve started in the wrong place. A story is about character progression, getting the reader involved with their lives and caring about them as though they were real. It doesn’t matter if they are involved in the most mundane details of life as long as the reader is invested in the outcome.

What you’ve done is conjure a scene for titillation, for shock value, with nothing invested behind it. Start at the beginning, not the end. By the time you get there, you may find that the ending is completely different than what you had imagined.

Answer #7

Thank you ever so much :} Thats what I’m going to do :D )O(

Answer #8

No really, you don’t understand. Just stop. Thank you anyway

Answer #9

A girl gets her period and uses a torn picture to clean up, the dude runs off because he is disgusted.

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