Full-blown sobbing when I am writing a deeply emotional scene of any novel. I came close with one story, yet it was more so tearing up and shaking. The only time I sobbed a bit was when I finished Project Succession.
I want to be in tune with my characters and scenes emotionally, when the time comes. I don’t always want to be an emotional wreck, I will never get shit done and it will make the story either weepy or dramatic. I just want to sob when I am writing a scene that is deeply emotional and it hits me like a truck, because I know the scene needs to have me show that I care about the situation as if I can experience it in a similar light. Does that make sense or not at all?
I also want to write a chapter or scene that makes me burst out laughing, if I am in my own home of course. Don’t think I can handle sobbing and/or laughing out loud in public. I embarrass easily, so I’d rather not add more fuel to the already wildfire. LOL!
It’s the best and worst thing when a character’s sad scene or emotional scene gets you while you write because you still have to write XD
I create moments where the stubborn, pushing-others-away, “I’m strong alone!” type of characters absolutely break down and accept help and get hugs and I’m over here writing it like
There’s something in Between Roses that every time I read it, it gets me. Actually, there’s about four or five moments in that story that just oooof! get me in the feels And I wrote it.
As for out in public, I’ve had to catch myself from making emotional faces at my screen XD
Yeah, I don’t get this often, honestly barely. I wished I had moments like that a bit more. Whether laughing loudly or sobbing hysterically, I want to feel what my characters are feeling and what the scene is bringing.
I have finally found a moment in The Endurlon to kill off a character, while not a pivotal or indeed a minor member of the main gang, it still made me weep a little… Just the dialogue within that scene and how this poor soul dies is just heart breaking for those who knew him (in this fictional world), and the writer more so…
I’m sad to see him go, but it still drives the plot somewhat forwards…
I had yet to experience a character death that brought me to tears, never mind sobbing.
It sucks, because yes some character deaths were sad, but the scenes that physically get to me a bit are those emotional between two people arguing or talking to each other.
I think the only character deaths that would get me are those characters that I can relate to given the situation.
Because for them to die, it’s like a part of me has died too!
Does that make sense?
Weirdly, I got really sad when I killed off a villain in one of my books–he dies after murdering a slew of other students in a school shooting when a sniper shoots him, and it actually surprised me when it made me sad. The character wasn’t sad, though–he was rage-filled in his last moments.
I wrote a comedy once too, and it still makes me laugh when I remember certain things in it. That book got a one-star review, though, so it just proves that because a book makes us laugh or cry doesn’t mean it hits the readers that way. Everyone’s experience with a book will be different, so just write as true to your emotions as you can and hope the reader comes away with the same vibes. (*＾-‘) 乃
Is it because he could have been saved before he got to the point? Like if he got the love and support he needed, then his life could’ve been so different and the other students would’ve lived and he would still be alive?
The simple fact that we can’t change neither the past nor future when it comes to situations like that? Is that why it made you sad?
You’ll get there! These moments didn’t happen for me right away. I can’t really pinpoint when or how. You really have to be imagining yourself also experiencing the same thing. Really get into your character’s shoes. Being empathetic.
I think… I kind of imagine it like as if the character is my friend and I’m watching them going through this transformation. That’s why it gets me.
I have two characters like that in Between Roses! Every time I read those scenes, I always get the feels. Always. Sometimes I want to bring them back to life, but I can’t!
That’s probably part of it. He did have a bad life, since his mother was an over-the-top evangelical religious nut. With therapy and life coaching he could’ve gotten some help, and changed.
But mostly I think it saddened me because it reminded me of real life school shootings, and how we’ve normalized them in America. (-᷅_-᷄๑)
We can’t, but we can change the laws to thwart the worst in human nature. Kamala Harris said she wanted background checks for all gun purchases and no more sales of assault weapons to civilians, but everyone voted for Trump instead. The people get what they deserve. ¯\_(ﭢ)_/¯
You can’t get upset at the option you chose, except that you should’ve chosen better.
Now, they have no choice but to suffer like everyone else. I am mixed on whether Americans want a better USA after Trump and/or Vance or before Vance were to take the office.
If nothing changes then, America already made their peace. The only thing left to do is suffer in silence and hope for a better day or leave the country and never look back.
Um, I find–outside rare specific instances–that I’m emotionally in-tune with a scene when my hormones are in the right point of the cycle. Things don’t affect me personally when they aren’t mine, all that often. That disassociation makes it easier to write the scene.
Now, when I read it BACK, all bets are off. Then it might hit me, and hit me hard.
So, when you are writing, you feel something though it is enough to make you cry. However, when you reread your work that opens the emotional floodgates?
Every time I read those scenes, I always get the feels. Always. Sometimes I want to bring them back to life, but I can’t!