When your story makes you emotional

[Gamblnluck]

I'm writing a story where a guy finds out his wife has decided to sell him into slavery to pay back all the money she got caught embezzling.

Where SHE needed the money? She should have been the one enslaved. Unless in your society men are chattel anyway. I've written a few series on the legal slavery thing. I tried to make my world slavery a judicial punishment thing. Not something where you can just go out, kidnap somebody and make them a slave. I've seen a few where the poor guy or girl signs a paper and finds himself a slave for life. Personally I do not like them.

If you are writing in one of those worlds where women rule and men are nothing more than slaves anyway, then he would not really care, nor would his daughter.

 

[MillieDynamite]

He is a troll who will say anything he can to get a response. Insulting your mother is pretty much guaranteed to get a reaction from someone.

Every time someone responds to him, it validates his posting strategy, because he is only looking for attention, and negative reactions are still attention.

I see Tilan is alive and well and still as insulting as ever he was.

 

[alohadave]

I see Tilan is alive and well and still as insulting as ever he was.

Is he back? I thought he was banned last week.

 

[MillieDynamite]

He's on Iggy, so I don't know. I just saw an exchange of insults and "you are ignoring this person" messages.

Is he back? I thought he was banned last week.

 

[DarkCosmos]

It wasn't an erotic fiction, but I wrote a fanfiction once in which I recast the main character as an autistic savant. That one was actually received fairly well, but the part where I had to go into detail about the main character's mother and the struggles she's had to overcome just raising him made me set the project down for a while and work on something a bit more lighthearted.

 

[Lbethy]

Haven’t written for a long while but when I do, my empathy is on high so Im often experiencing a whole range of emotions. I have cried at my own stories before. Writing is a powerful and cathartic tool.

 

[JaxRhapsody]

It wasn't an erotic fiction, but I wrote a fanfiction once in which I recast the main character as an autistic savant. That one was actually received fairly well, but the part where I had to go into detail about the main character's mother and the struggles she's had to overcome just raising him made me set the project down for a while and work on something a bit more lighthearted.

One of my fanfics about did me in. It was the first Peanuts fic I wrote. It was a high school reunion story, Peppermint Patty had still been pining for Charlie, they got together and her dad gave her gift from her mom to see her off to her new life; a dvd. If you know enough, you know canonically her moms dead, actually died between child birth and the first year or two she was born.

"I hurt myself that day." -Johnny Cash or somebody

 

[JaxRhapsody]

Is he back? I thought he was banned last week.

Did he really get banned‽ Bwahaha!

 

[CyranoJ]

Has this ever happened to you?

The backstories of Hanna and Nomi in Strange Hunger are pretty messed up. That fucks with me on some of my re-reads. They're some of the most authentic heroines in any of my settings that I've ever written, and it's just.... hard to see it happen again, sometimes.

 

[djrip]

One of my fanfics about did me in. It was the first Peanuts fic I wrote. It was a high school reunion story, Peppermint Patty had still been pining for Charlie, they got together and her dad gave her gift from her mom to see her off to her new life; a dvd. If you know enough, you know canonically her moms dead, actually died between child birth and the first year or two she was born.

"I hurt myself that day." -Johnny Cash or somebody

*Today. NIN. Then Cash covered it.

 

[JaxRhapsody]

*Today. NIN. Then Cash covered it.

I know. It's somewhat of a joke way to quote something.

 

[Sage_of_the_Forlorn_Path]

I've cried like a little bitch numerous times when writing, usually when killing off characters. I even cried when writing a burial scene for a character who was introduced as already dead.

 

[32aa]

Yep, as @TarnishedPenny noted, if you aren't emotionally invested enough in the story and characters to show a bit of emotion, it's probably not ripe for release. I might have proof-read that last chapter I posted on Sunday a dozen times, but it still hit the feels every time. Then you hit Publish, and then you get this comment, and it's mission accomplished:

"I definitely teared up when she says 'I want them to know what you meant to me'"

So very true. It's comments like that that are our reward for the time and emotion that we poured into our story.

 

[djrip]

I know. It's somewhat of a joke way to quote something.

I've had too many people actually think it was JC's song, I guess!

 

[32aa]

Good writing is pouring ourselves onto the page. We can use the cover of characters, outlier situations, scenarios, or setting but, end of the day, if we fully commit to the project we are IN our project.

The degree and ways to which we are are open to consideration but we are there.

I am convinced this honesty reads on the page. Not in a factual accounting of events but the inherent humanness/authenticity of our characters.

So sometimes you've really got to twist your insides into knots to unearth the real and transfer it to page.

My favorite stories have always needed a "recovery period" afterward.

So very... very true. It's one of the big reasons why we write. The sense of satisfaction. Putting our heart to 'paper' so to speak.