Do you stories break you up?

[Five_Inch_Heels]

Do they instill heavy emotion and bother you?

All I have to do is think about one, not even read it, and it gets to me in a very bad way.

Even deleting it from here and my PC would not delete it from memory. I'd still recall it sometimes.

 

[Erozetta]

Only some. They aren't on here anymore.

 

[big_cane_sugar]

I'm not sure I understand the OP. Are you asking if my own stories cause me unpleasant feelings?

 

[iwatchus]

Many of my stories do. The worst is a story where a side character commits suicide. I can hear his daughter's voice when she learned about it. But I have other scenes in other stories that evoke other emotions. Joy, melancholy, rage. I am a very emotional writer. I mostly avoid despair and hopelessness, although I know some other writers do a very god job of expressing that.

 

[Five_Inch_Heels]

'Our Most Private Place' just keeps haunting me.

 

[MrPixel]

Yes. I have two I can think of where I was reaching for the box of tissues with each paragraph. Granted, in one I was setting up this character to not survive the event, but decided that the planned outcome was too dark and would disturb the overall tenor of the story. It was also an opportunity for the MMC to enhance his "hero" status by interceding and saving her life, also emotional.

The other was a discovery long after the fact of a lover perishing in a car crash, a lover who was two months into her pregnancy with the MMC's son. They were separated by overriding circumstances, and he couldn't have known.

 

[ShelbyDawn57]

Almost all of my stories go the other way. I make myself cry all the time but usually happy tears.

Consequence to Recompense is the one exception. It goes very dark. The MC is in a downward spiral being manipulated by his wife. I get melancholy just thinking about it.

I'd rather cry the happy tears.

 

[TiberiusPrime]

My 750 word story always makes me cry because it comes from a very personal place within my own life.

 

[PapaRomantic]

My tears are usually happy tears also. But the dream sequence I wrote at the very end of my very first series submission carries some of both.

 

[AwkwardMD]

I turned a big corner in 2019. Everything I wrote before then was different, and what I started writing between 2019 and 2024 was deeply personal and emotional. Not all of it. I wrote some pieces that were definite strokers, or where the plot was 100% crafted around making sex happen.

Most of it, though, hurt to write. Hurt to create. Hurt to even think about sometimes, to this day. That's how therapy is.

Lafayette Hills gets worse the older I get.

 

[TheRedLantern]

I get emotional when writing them, and I need to in order to get that emotion onto the page. Usually there's a period of a day or two after I submit the story where I'm overwhelmed by what I was summoning. Positive or negative emotion doesn't seem to matter. It's like I built a reserve of that feeling for the story, and one the story's "done" and about to leave my hands forever, that reserve empties in the only way it can ... by crying in public like a good city girl.

 

[THBGato]

Do they instill heavy emotion and bother you?

Absolutely, though "bother" is the wrong word. It doesn't worry me that my own stories make me tear up. That's a good thing I think, both in terms of my own ability to feel and be empathetic, and also in terms of why I write.

 

[Voboy]

Not at all.

And many of my pieces are quite personal. But no, not even a little bit.

 

[Voyeurkenneth]

Definitely. I imagine we're all trying to work out our own personal things in some way, subconscious or not.

 

[PennyThompson]

The only one of my stories that makes me sad is Full Moon Blues, which is not strictly autobiographical (aside from the werewolf bit, obvs) but does have some pretty personal emotions in it. It also poured out in about a 12-hour period, and would have been worse if I had spent more time on it, I think.

The rest of my stories are positive and uplifting (or at least very silly) by design, manifesting worlds and relationships and experiences that I want to live in

 

[KittyOfSteele]

My very first novel was the thing that made the egg crack, and it wasn't supposed to be about that. A few scenes of a nanonovel I wrote on 2016 were emotional, and in hindsight are even more emotional now that I'm more experienced. Then there's NaNo 2020, that even thinking about it I just wonder why I made that character to go through hell, but then I remind myself that I also went through a lot of hell since five years before that, and I'm still going through the same hell.

The erotica I've published didn't break me, except maybe the two Raven stories that are still up because they were made with my ex in mind.

 

[dirk2024]

My stories come from my fantasies, so they come from a place where I want to live. Happy, Sexy La-La Land.

 

[MillieDynamite]

Sometimes I cry over my stores. Not the kind of break up you were looking for, but it's the most common one I have until I get the thing to work.