Writing a story need to know how to start it/end it (please read)?

You start it off like they do in the book "Their Eyes Were Watching God", where the main character begins to tell the story of her life to her best friend. It makes no mention of the tw friends again until the end of the book. I would personally start it off with a flash back type of thing. Describe the current setting and the people around, the Narrator being a character that the begin the tale of the main storyline with a simple phrase like "That takes me back to a time when...." then describe the setting of the flashback and begin the story. It ends when the flashback does and then describe the emotions of the people or person that had spent all of that time listening to the narrator's story. I hope that helps.

Write it like: 1) Just telling a story... like you are telling someone your story without quotes around it. OR 2) You could write it like it's a journal, and each day in that character's life has an entry about their day. Make it seem like they are writing about it and are in the scene. If you're typing it, it would be cool to make the font look like somebody is writing it! Hope that helps. Also it would be nice if you could make this the Best Answer I have been trying to get a Best Answer!!! Thanks!!!!

If it's to get something off your chest then maybe the second person in the room could be asking why the narrator is so down! Then, as for the transition, I'd say you shoudl write "It all started like this...", it's cliched but I couldn't think of anything better on short notice, so work on that, and then start into a new chapter at the start of the story! Hope that helps!

If you're writing just for fun, then write it in the way that you would enjoy most. How can strangers on the internet possibly tell you what you would enjoy most? This is your story and you're the writer. Experiment, try different things, find out what works for you.

Take a look at THE BOOK OF DANIEL by E. L. Doctorow--it is told in third person but eventually shifts to first--an interesting technique.

If you have a narrator generally you start with the narrator setting the scene as in time or place, often a little something about the narrator themselves before you launch into the main story. The end the narrator ties up loose ends, if there's a moral to the story the narrator will evoke it. So for example if your story starts in modern day Brooklyn you might start It was a dingy corner or Brooklyn but it was Zeke's little slice of the world. I first met Zeke when he was 13. He used to come down to my hotdog shop on the corner of 33rd and 124th every afternoon.. I had the best hotdogs this side of Atlantic city and my modest shop ..... Bring in some things about Brooklyn double check anything you do reference for example does 33rd and 124th exist and do they intersect and would a hot dog stand be possible in that area. Easier if you go with generic towns but you can invoke strong emotions among those who know a town if you mention it and keep it accurate. Then briefly define the relation of the narrator to the main characters. Then melt into the story with something like. Everybody knew Joe and Darla were an item but that didn't stop Desmond from making a move on Darla. They were both waiting for [insert xyz reason for them being in the room to start with ] and ... launch into your story.

If you have a narrator generally you start with the narrator setting the scene as in time or place, often a little something about the narrator themselves before you launch into the main story. The end the narrator ties up loose ends, if there's a moral to the story the narrator will evoke it. So for example if your story starts in modern day Brooklyn you might start It was a dingy corner or Brooklyn but it was Zeke's little slice of the world. I first met Zeke when he was 13. He used to come down to my hotdog shop on the corner of 33rd and 124th every afternoon.. I had the best hotdogs this side of Atlantic city and my modest shop ..... Bring in some things about Brooklyn double check anything you do reference for example does 33rd and 124th exist and do they intersect and would a hot dog stand be possible in that area. Easier if you go with generic towns but you can invoke strong emotions among those who know a town if you mention it and keep it accurate. Then briefly define the relation of the narrator to the main characters. Then melt into the story with something like. Everybody knew Joe and Darla were an item but that didn't stop Desmond from making a move on Darla. They were both waiting for [insert xyz reason for them being in the room to start with ] and ... launch into your story.

If it's to get something off your chest then maybe the second person in the room could be asking why the narrator is so down! Then, as for the transition, I'd say you shoudl write "It all started like this...", it's cliched but I couldn't think of anything better on short notice, so work on that, and then start into a new chapter at the start of the story! Hope that helps!

Write it like: 1) Just telling a story... like you are telling someone your story without quotes around it. OR 2) You could write it like it's a journal, and each day in that character's life has an entry about their day. Make it seem like they are writing about it and are in the scene. If you're typing it, it would be cool to make the font look like somebody is writing it! Hope that helps. Also it would be nice if you could make this the Best Answer I have been trying to get a Best Answer!!! Thanks!!!!