Crying and other Emotional Author Out Bursts!

[English Lady]

I have just finished writing a new story and the last paragraph had me in tears.

It is the first time I have written something myself that has made me cry.


Do you get emotional over your own writing?

 

[spawn of satan]

Yep.

In my latest story i had a teary.

Shameless plug, there.

 

[spawn of satan]

Hey. Just realised no one knows who I am...

Hence, shameless plug, failed.

But hey, having an alt is kinda fun!

 

[MLyons]

Yes.

I think it was Dr. M who had the quote in his signature for a while. I don't remember the author of the quote, but it was right on:

"No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader."

 

[R. Richard]

Does horny count? (Shamless plug!)

 

[English Lady]

well yes I guess horny counts considering we're writing erotica.

This is the first story that really has got to me though. I think maybe it is because i've had the idea in mind for weeks and i've finally got it written down, better than I ever expected i would do. For me at least it is my best work , maybe not ever but for a long while and alot of personal satisfaction has come from it

 

[yui]

well yes I guess horny counts considering we're writing erotica.

This is the first story that really has got to me though. I think maybe it is because i've had the idea in mind for weeks and i've finally got it written down, better than I ever expected i would do. For me at least it is my best work , maybe not ever but for a long while and alot of personal satisfaction has come from it

I have felt emotion, strong emotion, but I have never brought myself to tears.

Congrats on following through with your story idea, English Lady. Well done! To me, that is the most difficult part of it all.

Luck to you and please let us know when it posts,

Yui ^_^

 

[dr_mabeuse]

Yes.

I think it was Dr. M who had the quote in his signature for a while. I don't remember the author of the quote, but it was right on:

"No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader."

Yeah. I think I swiped that from Robert Frost and changed it around a little.

I've had a couple of emotional moments in writing, both at the ends of novels when love triumphed all, and it was kind of embarrassing, because when I calmed down and reread what I'd written, it didn't have that emotional an effect in me.

I take that to indicate a failure in writing. I could feel that level of emotion in the story, but obviously I didn't quite capture it in the writing or I think I would have teared up again when I read it and I didn't. (Or else maybe I was just immune by that point)

I think it's hard to write a novel length piece and not get very emotionally involved in your characters though.

---dr.M.

 

[English Lady]

Yui..it's the most difficault part for me too - getting ideas down on paper takes me some effort!

Thanks and I'll add it to my sigline when it gets posts..

BTW..how long is that?

 

[English Lady]

Maybe the lack of emotion on re-reading was simply because you nkew how it went and you'd emptied out the all the emotion already?

I read my piece through and was still quite choked up but i took the end fairly well with just a "Sigh" I reckon that was because i knew how it ended and wasn't quite so bowled over by it second time around

 

[doormouse]

Does horny count? (Shamless plug!)

I'm with you here LOL

I can't write a sex scene without at least feeling some of the tensions/arousal. It makes it easier to write and sound convincing. (Ahh, and thank God for having LDW on voice when I write them)

 

[BlackShanglan]

I've had a couple of emotional moments in writing, both at the ends of novels when love triumphed all, and it was kind of embarrassing, because when I calmed down and reread what I'd written, it didn't have that emotional an effect in me.

I take that to indicate a failure in writing. I could feel that level of emotion in the story, but obviously I didn't quite capture it in the writing or I think I would have teared up again when I read it and I didn't. (Or else maybe I was just immune by that point)

That is right where I am worrying about being when I open up that file lurking there, repulsive and unedited, formless and obscene, waiting for me to destroy the vision - which was quite beautiful - when I come back to the reality. *sigh* I am almost afraid to look.

But yes. I confess to have wept. As the good Doctor points out, however, it's only half of the issue. The characters moved me to tears, and undoubtedly the story will as well. But whether tears of powerful emotion or simply tears of frustration at the ham-fisted mess I have made of it remains to be seen.

At least, thank God, the sails will be in the right place Thanks again Dr. M -

Shanglan

 

[GratefulFred]

It's just an overwhelming emotional high...

...to out due yourself in writing a piece. Though some may get a high off of eroticism, I personnally enjoy the wicked twist ending that hits me in mid stroke as I write. To me plot rules all.

I once did a sexy satire on "The Prisoner" sci-fi series and had to take a week off as it was a moment of majestic clarity for me. It could get 0 votes and I'd still be an awe rereading it.

I guess your piece just took your writing up a level and you're realing in the emotional high. Good for you.


My "Unwashed Shorts" can be found down bellow my navel orange here...
http://www.literotica.com/stories/showstory.php?id=156407

My pending story "Kill Byll" is 20 days, 19 views and 2 unresponded to PMs old. It has the power to change an election but alas there may be only Bush lickers here.

 

[impressive]

Oh, absolutely! Especially when I write in the 1st person.

I haven't really written anything here that would produce tears, but I have elsewhere.

As for erotica, I definitely feel the heat when writing -- and when reading -- my work.

 

[gauchecritic]

Yes. More so for my poetry because I only tend to write poems which are just an expression of emotion.

But my last story did actually grab me in exactly the way that I meant it to when I wrote it. The feedback I got for it seemed to back that up too.

The thing that really got to me about my emotion over the story was that I sometimes feel that way when I read published authors work. That was just so gratifying, realising I can write like a real author.

Now I just need someone to pay me money for doing it.

Gauche

 

[McKenna]

Now I just need someone to pay me money for doing it.

Would you consider a trade?

 

[McKenna]

Do you get emotional over your own writing?

EL, I have gotten emotional over my writing. I've gotten emotionally involved with the characters, as Dr M suggests, when writing novel-length pieces. I don't know how I can not get involved with characters who seem so real. I like to think it is the emotional involvement with my stories that makes them what they are, and without it, they'd be lesser, somehow.

I'll also add when I've finished writing a longer piece, I end up missing the characters. Odd, but true.

 

[gauchecritic]

Would you consider a trade?

Well, payment in kind anyway.

Gauche

 

[Ravin the Poet]

I haven't got teary but others who have read my poems have. I think it's because I always write with such passion and such realistic viewing, that I am the character anyone, so I am just telling myself "your crying". But I have written things that have been powerful to make me realize and maybe say "holy shit" every now and then, but not to much on the teary side. I'll wait for that day to come though, and when it does, I know I am writing well.


Ravin

 

[Dream Keeper]

Ah, a few weeks ago my jazz band was playing a ballad. **A slow swing song, that is often very beautiful.** I was given an improv. solo, and i had 42 measures of slow tempo playing. I began playing something random, and slowly worked into it, and began to feel the song coming from my heart. In the end the solo was so beautiful I was in tears. Luckily nobody noticed, and I was commended by everyone in the band, including the conductor. I can't say that has ever happened to me when I was writing an erotic story except when I had to kill one of my main characters Jeff in my longest series yet. I haven't posted those story on this website, and i don't think i will. I was on chapter 14 when I decided that it was time for AIDS to finally set in and kill him. I know, typical way for a gay guy in a story to die, but I have seen others try to do what I did. Nobody has reached the level of drama and heartbreak that I have in any occurance of an aids death story so far as I have read. I did cry after that too. Perhaps it was the sad story, perhaps it was my actual grief for Jeff. Is it possible to grieve for a fiction character? I did... http://graphics.gaiaonline.com/forum/images/smiles/icon_crying.gif

-Dk http://graphics.gaiaonline.com/forum/images/smiles/icon_wink.gif

 

[Virtual_Burlesque]

I have a good cry every time I read one of my stories.

Once, I even started gnawing on my wrist.

 

[Joe Wordsworth]

Once or twice.

 

[English Lady]

Basically, we're all an emotional lot aren't we?

 

[dr_mabeuse]

Basically, we're all an emotional lot aren't we?

You never told us: just what was it that made you cry? What was the story about?

---dr.M.

 

[English Lady]

Well I'll tell you but you've got to promise to read the story when it finals gets accepted

The narrator is the male character in the story. He retells how he met this beautiful curvy young lady on a train and was completely mesmerised by the way she was eating cherries. They meet for a date, go back to hers for "dessert" and things happen (including lots of fruit ) but in the end he reveals he is sat in a hospital room watching his young wife die of cancer.

The story had been bouncing around in my head for ages when the twist at the end just came to mind, so I went with it. It's just so damn sad!