Have your characters ever moved you to tears?

[JamesSavik]

I'd like to know if outher authors have been there- just in case I'm losing it.

[DomLuka]

I'd like to know if outher authors have been there- just in case I'm losing it.

 

 

 

No actual crying yet, but the whole sadness factor, yes. However, I don't think it's the characters, but the situation. Putting yourself in thier shoes and trying to imagine what they're going through can be a roller coaster. You're not losing it.

[Graeme]

There are still parts of some of my stories that bring a tear to my eye when I re-read them. I'm not sure if it's the characters, or the situation, but I think it's similar to what you're asking about.

[Duncan Ryder]

Yes.

 

You're not losing it.

 

(Yet )

[Benji]

I'd like to know if outher authors have been there- just in case I'm losing it.

 

.......Not an author, but yes a lot stories here have made me shed a tear!

[Mark Arbour]

You're not losing it. I'm right there with you.

 

I guess I create these characters, and then when they get into situations, I feel it pretty strongly. I only get teary-eyed at the really happy moments, which makes me feel like a total pussy.

[Kia Zi Shiru]

simple answer, Yes, I do that too. Even just reading the outline of one of my stories and in the back of my head some of the scenes that are gonna happen, it does make me shed some tears from time to time.

[Benji]

simple answer, Yes, I do that too. Even just reading the outline of one of my stories and in the back of my head some of the scenes that are gonna happen, it does make me shed some tears from time to time.

 

.......... Which beings us to an evil goat!!! Starving us from actual tearjerker situations & moments in last chapter38 in which you destroyed a honeymoon with death and mayhem. Ok, I tried to cry here!!

[hh5]

oh yea many times!!!

 

Just that I have no one to help me realize it also sends me into bouts of depression too.

So - it takes time to unravel myself from the mood of the story.

 

Then also when I read good stories - the same thing happens.

Some people may not find the story so touching but then they're not finding the story written by its author.

[David McLeod]

Yes, many times yes. Even stories I wrote a long time ago (relatively speaking) and which I've read and re-read, edited and re-edited still bring me to tears. Now, to put that in context, I always was a bit of a cry-baby, and I still cry easily.

 

No, you're not losing it.

 

Now, may I ask anyone who has read any of my stories on this site: have you ever cried, and what was it that brought you to tears?

 

James, if there is a passage in one of your stories you'd like to know if it brings me/others to tears, give us a link.

[Krista]

That's happened to me, it surprised me the first time, but the second and third I just find that its normal... sometimes we can create characters that are just as seemingly human as we are..

 

But heh - I cry at a drop of a hat regardless..

[Johnathan Colourfield]

yes. i have one character in a novel i am writing that makes me cry every time i write him.

He is the image of a boy i fell in love with nearly 10 months ago.

I just love writing him

 

dont worry about the crying , its human!

[Tom]

I thought stories were supposed to move a person

 

Okay, so I'll admit it, I write to bring my emotions to the surface. if I weren't moved one way or another with my own writing, then I'm just putting a bunch of letters on the screen.

 

Hugs,

Tom

[Libby Drew]

I'd like to know if outher authors have been there- just in case I'm losing it.

 

Yes!

 

It's a good thing. It means you're writing from the heart.

[JamesSavik]

OK. So apparently I'm in the zone then and not quite nuts. Chapter 12/13 of Twilight should really work then.

[JamesSavik]

No actual crying yet, but the whole sadness factor, yes. However, I don't think it's the characters, but the situation. Putting yourself in thier shoes and trying to imagine what they're going through can be a roller coaster. You're not losing it.

 

EXACTLY.

 

Thanks Dom. You really do get it.

 

I should have expected that from the author of the Log Way- one of my all time favorite stories.

[Former Member]

I have on several occasions been moved to tears because of my characters, and not so much the situation...Their nobility and self-sacrifice makes me sick sometimes...but I can't help but break down when it doesn't.

[Dolores Esteban]

The fate of one of my characters moved me deeply.

[Chad]

I'd like to know if outher authors have been there- just in case I'm losing it.

 

I'm currently writing another episode and a character in it brought me to tears. Probably since life's already hard enough for him and it keeps getting harder. Then again, it's what makes his life story-material.

[Former Member]

In my vampire story i'm writing i don't ever cry when shit hit's the fan we get even Someone does harm to your friends, go out and kill them. Bloodbath! Don't get mad get even. Protect the ones you love type of deal.

 

In my i don't know what it is really but it's like a Romance Story cuz i'm really pouring my inner want to believe everything can be wonderful. When things fall apart they can be built back up agian. Type of sappy story. I been calling it "A book your grandma would read". Cuz the idea kinda came after i got this book from my grandma lol.

 

Anyways my 1 character "Carly" will have me crying away, totally wanting to scream my lungs out at her ex fiancee. It gets me into depression writing it. Cuz i'm trying to make it super real and relatable. Me and her went through him leaving her,her moving back in with her parents, we have to go through a birth together, a wedding, a death, 2 deaths actually. And the ones gonna rock me personally. It's gonna be a tear jerker but with realism. I outlined it and i like where its gonna go. It's like i'm watching the pieces fall apart and i know where they all fit back together cuz i watched them fall apart. Alot of it's my inner fears, my inner woman or something. it's that real softer side of me. That's scary!. When it gets really soft i'm like EEW TOUGHEN UP! an stop writing.

[Nephylim]

God yes.... my stories make me cry all the time. I get really involved in them... live them sometimes.

 

I never plan what I write. I just sit down and it comes to me...the story unfolds as I write it and I get really caught up in it. It's like I'm reading a book. I have no idea where the story is going to go until it gets there and somehow it always seems to work out in the end

[corvus]

There's usually one moment per story I write that holds me very hard, and it's that moment that is the reason the story was written. So yes, I guess my characters have moved me to tears, but it's the justification, redemption, and necessity of creation.