Ghost Stories

I did write my ghost story last night. It needs some touching up, but it is basically there. It is for an exclusive short story contest put on as PR for Ghost Adventures, only open to bloggers that they choose. It has to be about the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum in West Virginia and I am still tempted to add a bit o' mothman in. At first I wasn't going to do it because I certainly wouldn't expect to win, but it seemed kind of fun and I do like writing fiction, even though I am not very good at it. Not sure I followed the rules correctly either. It gave you certain ghosts that the story was suppose to be about. My story has one of those ghosts in it, but the story is mainly about a totally fictional character who has interaction with certain ghosts. Anyhow, I will be posting it at my Ghostly Happenings blog sometime before midnight on Sunday, in accordance with the contest rules.

Something Jerry E. Smith had told me really helped. We were having a discussion on facebook with someone else who was writing something and he said you should never write a book or story unless you knew what the ending would be. I thought about that and remembered that I had probably written dozens of stories years ago that I never finished because I couldn't come up with an ending. This time I came up with the ending first and it was much easier! Not that it makes the overall story or writing any better, but at least I finished it. :)