Please help with my horror novel?

I always thought you had to eliminate the reason the ghost was hanging around and then it would cease to have the power to exist.

Just make it up! That’s the best part of writing a book, you can write whatever the heck you want to. Suck him into a vacuum cleaner and jet it into space, trick him into flying to the sun not knowing his ghostly essence will be incinerated there, show him a dead puppy because the secret to killing ghosts is making them cry…

The traditional methods are:
1) Religious piety (ie exorcism)
2) Helping the ghost overcome his emotional problems
3) Slaying the ghost with a sword (Japanese ghost)
4) Destroying an artifact that binds the ghost to this world

But why stick with that drivel? Make up something new and extraordinary!

Send him to MacDonald’s for all his meals.

see the guy had a wife, but she was killed and there is this whole time travel portal where he escapes through it (long story) and he ends up meeting another main characters girlfriend who reminds him of his wife, and tries to wim her over or something like that.

(he is british no Japanese)

@gail: What?

Let him die of obesity. Hope you have a good editor for your book. Good luck, or something like that.

ahh I missed your answers gail. They are always soooooo brillient (unlike me who can’t spell lol thank goodness that Word corrects it all lol)

It’s not the spelling, Comedian. You want your text to be clear and easily understood in addition to being interesting.

well I am the best writer in my english class

find out the type of particle he is made of, then bombard him with the appropriate anti-particle.
for example, if ghosts are electron clouds, bombard them with positrons.

That’s a start, but that doesn’t make you a novelist, yet. How about a short story? And pick up a book that you love and examine every sentence in the first paragraph to see what makes it readable.

i am an avid Stephen King reader and have done soooo many short stories so I wanted to try something a bit more challenging. Well thanks for everyones help. I should probably go work on it some more

Have you had your English teacher read any of the stories and give you an opinion or some suggestions?

yes he likes them a lot and says i’m really good and will go far in writing. He also helps me improve too.

Wonderful. Try writing perfect sentences here. (Start with a capital letter, use commas when appropriate and continue to read stuff you love and analyze the writing.)

How old are you? Sorry, but I have forgotten.

I just proof-read this and went back to add a period and move the ) to the outside of last sentence.

Ghosts or supernatural spirits in stories usually exist because they have unfinished business (you remember Casper, dont you?). Completing that business or helping them overcome some sort of problem usually disperses them. I’ve also heard of trapping spirits away in items or artifacts or sealing them away in tombs with spells, blah blah blah.

Trying to “kill” the undead is a little oxymoronic to me. Rather, think of trying to return them back to their realm or banishing them from our dimension and existence. I also agree with creating a more new method of spirit slaying rather than sticking with the traditional.

this also reminds me of dragonball, where they trapped piccolo daimao with a special technique, called the mafuba , into a rice cooker.

What you need is a good ghost writer.

He he. I slay myself sometimes.

@astrochuck <groan>

@gailcalled: 16

@Comedian: Ah, newly minted. Look up every word you come across that you don’t know, Try to use it several times. Keep on putting words to paper or to screen.

@gailcalled . . .pssst…you have a comma hanging out.

@Blondesjon: I need you to break an ampule of ammonia under my nose while the ladies of the court fan me. (. and , are next to each other on the qwerty keyboard and use the pathetically weak ring finger. That is my pathetic defense.)

I was just happy that I could be your first.

suck him up in a vacuum cleaner and then ship the bag to someone who deserves to be haunted, like perhaps Bernie Madoff in prison. =) half the fun of writing a novel is figuring out what sort of Hell to put your characters through. Read some Kurt Vonnegut, he was a genius at putting his characters through torment.

@Comedian You’re 16?
WTF! Wow! You have a really nice gift. :) I like ghost stories…much prefer Edgar Allen Poe!
I say you should do something twisted…go far beyond the extraordinary…like as said by @fireinthepriory

@cyndihugs: Thank you. Once it’s finished look out for it and then you can really judge my writing lol.