Writing sad stories making you sad?

[warrior]

Well, how many of you get sad / depressed while writing a sad story, or a story with a rather tragic character, or a character that goes through a lot of emotional struggles?

 

Well, characters I write become so real (to me) that I find it hard to make them suffer. as such, I've never been able to write a tragic story. I can't help changing the ending to make my characters happy. LOL.

 

What about others?

[hh5]

That kinda sounds like my stories

 

The character has already suffered on his own accord

 

but then if you have a story there is drama and that means they have to push to survive

 

there must be something thats worth all they gone through

 

otherwise its shakespear all the way

[Nephylim]

I happen to think that true character shines through adversity and that you never apprecaite what you have until you are at risk of losing it. Therefore my characters tend to get tortured mentally and physically.

 

I think that life sucks so why should it be all plain sailing for my characters.

 

Okay so I'm a little twisted and I like to see my characters suffer. However I am also a sentimentalist so yeah I sometimes sob my heart out when sad things are happening but it's like watching Titanic... I love the tears, I love the suffering, I love the pain, but there is usually a happy ending because bottom like I like to think that the shitty world is filled with happy endings... if not happy ever after then at least happy for now.

 

edited to say that I find stories where nothing ever happens and the characters don't go through hell and so grow... boring.

Edited May 31, 2010 by Nephylim

[JamesSavik]

Reading bad stories makes me sad.

 

EMO kids: when you are struck with the urge to write bad, self-indulgent poetry and cut yourself, JUST SAY NO!

 

(and cut yourself anyway).

[gabrielsknife]

In my humble opinion, if the artist/writer doesn't feel any emotion when writing, how can he expect a reader to feel anything? It shows that there's real emotion in a piece, you know? Not just the sniffles, but everything; the humor, the anger, the sex (if that's what you're writing ^_-).

 

I've gotten a little teary-eyed while writing a real touching scene. When I write my fighting scenes, I'm either so into the action or I'm...just a tiny bit pissed off. Just like everything, I try to work myself into the *mood* of what the characters are producing. Usually, I can help this process with music.

 

I think it's the sign of a good piece and a good writer to get emotional over what you're writing.

[hh5]

I think it's the sign of a good piece and a good writer to get emotional over what you're writing.

 

As long as you capture the emotion "in writing"

 

Max was jealous of Sam for taking the last piece of cake.

He threw his cup of milk at Sam, right into his face.

The cup broke Sam's tooth and sent searing pain in this jaw.

Max seeing what he did was wrong.

He apologized "Oh I'm sorry ... I didn't mean to hurt you!!"

 

[ bleep bleep drama ]

[Fishwings]

No tears in the author, no tears in the reader.

[hh5]

No tears in the author, no tears in the reader.

 

There are tears in the author but none in the reader but there are some in other readers