You ever cry while writing something emotional?

[Katsuya]

Do you guys ever have like tears welling up just tears going down your cheek when you something emotional? Like a death

 

[ThatTwat3000]

Do you guys ever have like tears welling up just tears going down your cheek when you something emotional? Like a death

No, because I’m a horrible writer

 

[ShamelessPatheticMook]

Only when I imagine alternate, more depressing paths my MCs could possibly go down.

 

[WinterTimeCrime]

Nothing emotional, but sometimes after post-write clarity, I look and ask myself, `What have I done?`

 

[Katsuya]

No, because I’m a horrible writer

I mean, i am too lol. I don't think ability matters necessarily

Nothing emotional, but sometimes after post-write clarity, I look and ask myself, `What have I done?`

Lol what are you writing to say that

Only when I imagine alternate, more depressing paths my MCs could possibly go down.

dang. no one huh

 

[Simo]

My dad had a friend who used to write a story mostly for himself just cause he loved to write. He wrote it on paper, no online, no nothing, and had been going at it for years. One day dad found him depressed and even crying, when asked why he revealed that he killed off a character in his story that he had grown attached to, one that has been in his story for years. I don’t think i’ll ever reach that level, but I do hope one day I’ll get close.

 

[georgelee5786]

 

[Zagaroth]

Often, though rarely flat-out crying. My wife has found me sniffing with watery eyes as I write certain scenes. I get emotional on the character's behalf.

The bad events tend to be in the past, I like to write characters being on the upswing of things. But there is still a lot of emotion involved in everything from revealing aspects of one's past to a moment of bonding and healing.

 

[Jemini]

Do you guys ever have like tears welling up just tears going down your cheek when you something emotional? Like a death

I just have to raise an objection here. I know you mentioned a death as a simple example, but I just feel disgusted by death scenes that are trying to get the reader to cry.

If it's done right, the crying should happen at the character's wake, when characters are talking about the good qualities of the character, not during the death scene itself.

That's how to get the real earned tears. Drag the characters through an emotionally difficult situation that gets their tensions up, and then have a few slower paced chapters in which you unpack everything that just got crammed in there. That's what makes people cry IRL, and mimicking that process with your writing is how you get readers to REALLY just flat out cry over your book.

(I've seen it happen to me with a book here on the site. Deathworld Commando: Reborn. Books 2-4 really hit you with a lot. Then, book 5 starts to unpack it, and it's book 5 that'll have you straight up balling like a baby.)

 

[Corty]

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If it's done right, the crying should happen at the character's wake, when characters are talking about the good qualities of the character, not during the death scene itself.

I cried when Bubba died in Vietnam.
I also did when Vader passed.
Same when Boromir died.
When Jiraiya got merked, that death was done great and made me emotional.

I probably could count many more but I'm kinda lazy in this heat.

TLDR: Crying should happen naturally when the reader's emotions desire it, not when others think it should happen. If it is a death scene, it is then. If it is after, it is after; if it is at a fart joke, then there. There is no: you can cry now bookmark.

 

[MatchaChocolate69]

Do you guys ever have like tears welling up just tears going down your cheek when you something emotional? Like a death

Sometimes, I end up shedding a few tears when writing a particularly emotional part, especially when I'm completely immersed in the character I'm writing.

These are the moments I write for because when it happens, I know I've done a good job or at least achieved my goal.

I cried when Bubba died in Vietnam.
I also did when Vader passed.
Same when Boromir died.
When Jiraiya got merked, that death was done great and made me emotional.

I cried during those parts too. But there are so many to mention:
Obi-Wan vs Anakin is one of those moments that always moves me.
With Clannad and Hachiko, I'm practically a fountain.
Quiet when she speaks to save Venom Snake.
The Rocky movies.

 

[georgelee5786]

I will not cry I will not cry I will not cry I will not....

 

[esThr]

No, because I’m a horrible writer

That in itself is a cry worthy feat! Heh... cri*

 

[Jemini]

I cried when Bubba died in Vietnam.
I also did when Vader passed.
Same when Boromir died.
When Jiraiya got merked, that death was done great and made me emotional.

I probably could count many more but I'm kinda lazy in this heat.

TLDR: Crying should happen naturally when the reader's emotions desire it, not when others think it should happen. If it is a death scene, it is then. If it is after, it is after; if it is at a fart joke, then there. There is no: you can cry now bookmark.

Jiraiya was exactly what I'm talking about in terms of those overly sappy death scenes I find disgusting and are the sort of thing I was actually referencing as being a bad thing when I brought this up.

Those other's aren't actively trying to make you cry during the death, which means it's fine in my book. Yes, the audience can cry whenever they want to cry, I agree. The issue I'm bringing up is when the writing is TRYING to make you cry DURING the death. That's what I find off-putting. A death scene should not be beautiful, glorious, or played up as sad. (It can be sad, the audience can feel sad, but it shouldn't be played up for the sad aspects of it.) I mean, maybe I'll give some leeway for dying of old age, but otherwise a death scene if portrayed honestly ought to be stressful and fraught with the will to survive, and it's after those fraught emotions have passed and they're being unpacked that the emotions that were packed in get dragged out of you.

In other words, I agree with you in the comment that "There is no: you can cry now bookmark." But, in scenes like Jiraiya's death it HAS that bookmark and it having that bookmark is an active turn-off to me.

 

[RainyLiquid]

Never.

 

[Cynthell]

Idk if Ive ever gotten emotional over anything Ive written. Idk if its just the fact its what Ive come up with or maybe Im just not attached to my characters that deeply but who knows, Im usually a pretty emotional person so its actually strange now that I think about it.

 

[Katsurandom]

When I had to put down one of my favorite non main characters I got them feels. So I decided to give her a series for herself where I reincarnated her so she could live a happy life.

 

[xuduxixi]

For smut writers: Do you ever get aroused when writing chapter after chapter filled with nothing but sex?

 

[Cynthell]

When I had to put down one of my favorite non main characters I got them feels. So I decided to give her a series for herself where I reincarnated her so she could live a happy life.

Not a terrible idea, start a chain or characters who die and get their own novel till it wraps back around to the first story.

For smut writers: Do you ever get aroused when writing chapter after chapter filled with nothing but sex?

Yes, distractingly so. Though I have been told thats rare so who knows

 

[MatchaChocolate69]

For smut writers: Do you ever get aroused when writing chapter after chapter filled with nothing but sex?

Same old story, if it doesn’t happen, it means you’re not doing a good job. If it doesn’t arouse you, how can you expect it to arouse the reader?
So, the answer is yes.