forum Advice on my story/plot?

Started August 28, 2018 by @Chaosmellow

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I'm absolutely stuck on what I should do next in my story because I feel that it's not long enough to end, but also don't know how I should get to the resolution.

UMM… Be more spesific please. Like, what is your story about?
About getting to the resolution - I totally understand how you feel. I have a similiar problem.
Try to break it down: Think about the diffrences between the point your chracters're at and the place the need to be when they get to the resolution. Do they need any special items? Do they need to overcome fear? Or gain a new ability? Maybe your protagonists need to resolve a conflict between themselves? (and sure, they might need to actually GO to OTHER ACTUAL PLACE).
It sounds obvious, but somtimes the thing that make us feel stuck is just pressure, and taking it step by step might help.
(BTW-I have'nt checked my grammar/spelling, so please correct my English if neccesary)

It's about a girl who loses her science obsessed brother in a car accident. And weird things start happening around her house such as his shoes appearing or his favorite book, so she starts to question it.
Overall, it's a science fiction-y kind of book.

So I'll just ask a bunch of questions:
Why sci-fi? What elements make this story a sci-fi one?
Sci-fi is usually about using a technologic development in order to question/criticsize/explore socio-economical aspects or moral question. Do you have something like that in your story? What? And if not, why and what themes are you dealing with instead?
What made his shoes appearing? Does his shoes have any meaning to the narrative, or they could've been replaced by any item?
What arc do you want your MC to have? Or what arc she is able to have, based on her personality and the world and people around her?
How was her connection with her brother like?
What does she do after she each of those event?
How her family, friends, lovers, and others react to her actions caused by those events? Do any of them helps her investigate? Tries to make her quit? Why do the react the way they react?
Was the car crash real, or something else (murder attempt, it was/wasn't the brother's fault, as opposed to whose fault she thought it was)?
How the people close to the brother feel about the crash? Do they have opinions about her invistigation? How do they help her or prevent her from discovering the truth?
Will the MC find out new things about her brother? What will she find? How will she find out about them?
Why does she decide to invistigate?
What is going on with her life beside the invistigation (career, social life, goals, family, live life, kids)? How do those aspects affect her journey of finding the truth?

You don't have to answer those here, but thinking about them might give you some ideas :)