Getting emotional

[Writer61]

My current WIP, the gift of a recent plot bunny, is basically a group sex story about people volunteering for a medical study. I have a broad outline but am pantsing the details. About halfway through, it has become a tale about the abuse of those involved. The abuse was unintentional by everybody (including me).

I became quite emotional writing the scenes where the abuse became apparent, and the subjects found their way out.

Have you ever become emotional when writing for Lit?

 

[Five_Inch_Heels]

I have one I can't even think about. And it was only a 750. Only a few comments, but they were along the lines of the 'punch' in such a short story.





Also:

https://forum.literotica.com/threads/crying-from-your-own-work.1654829/

 

[Duil2]

My current WIP, the gift of a recent plot bunny, is basically a group sex story about people volunteering for a medical study. I have a broad outline but am pantsing the details. About halfway through, it has become a tale about the abuse of those involved. The abuse was unintentional by everybody (including me).

I became quite emotional writing the scenes where the abuse became apparent, and the protagonists found their way out.

Have you ever become emotional when writing for Lit?

Absolutely yes. And like you it often happens when the story takes I turn I wasn't expecting. I can only suppose that in some way what's being written links to some expression of emotion that my subconscious needed to process. Not necessarily about the same topic I was writing but just something that needed an emotional release.

I also got suddenly emotional recently when I was editing a story by @TheExperimentalist even though the experience of the characters in What We Do At Night was not something I'd ever come close to experiencing. There was just something about the longing and love between the characters that struck a chord and I shed a tear.

 

[Writer61]

I have one I can't even think about. And it was only a 750. Only a few comments, but they were along the lines of the 'punch' in such a short story.

Also:

https://forum.literotica.com/threads/crying-from-your-own-work.1654829/

Thanks for the link.

Feeling the need for a hug response.

 

[Duil2]

Thanks for the link.

Feeling the need for a hug response.

 

[usable001]

Have you ever become emotional when writing ...

Yes, both for Literotica and elsewhere. Readers expect authors to mess with their emotions.

Writing those words, you don't have the blunting filter of poor word choice. The story in your head will always be better (and more emotional) than the story on the page. Getting teary-eyed while I write is not only common, it is expected.

 

[BeechLeaf]

I don't write bad things for their bad things value. I don't write rapes or murders or horrors. (I'm speaking of my general writing, not the tiny, harmless amount that I've posted here with this account.) But in the course of writing about realistic people with a range of everyday occurrences, I've written very sad things, and I choke up and hurt and sometimes cry when I go back to those. That means I did it properly. If there's enough story, these things are there, and you have to face them.

There was one bit of backstory I did to one of the people I most love in the world, And I can never, ever forgive myself for doing that to her. It is only her current strength and happiness that partly makes up for it.

 

[Five_Inch_Heels]

Sunrise began to break over the trees across the still water of the lake. There was no sound, not even the birds, with the exception of sirens far off in the distance.



.........

700 some words later

......


As the parade of red and white flashing lights began to stream in the long driveway ....

 

[Rob_Royale]

Yes. And that's all I have to say about that.

 

[AwkwardlySet]

Have you ever become emotional when writing for Lit?

Yes.

It proves that the characters we imagine in our minds are real, that they have their desires, feelings, pain, hopes, and dreams, rather than just being puppets we are using to tell a story. Maybe some authors can fully detach from such things, but that's not me.

 

[anthrodisiac]

Only emotional in the sense of "oh fuck yeah, that was so good, Anthy, you're killing it!" or "you useless piece of nonsense, why won't you work????"

 

[millamomud]

I'd like to answer with a comment I got on another page:

translated from German:
This story is an absolute masterpiece!
However, if I had known how it would end, I’m sure I wouldn’t have read it.
Now I’m sitting here with tears in my eyes, feeling like someone who received no reward for their work, who is denied an orgasm during sex, whose plate is taken away while eating just as they reach for the fork…
I have never read such a sadistic story before.

Writing that was emotionally pretty draining to be honest.

 

[THBGato]

Have you ever become emotional when writing for Lit?

Every story, pretty much (maybe not the EV ones, which is why I feel a bit odd about them).

Basically, if a story isn't making me cry while I write it then it's just not good enough.

 

[ElectricBlue]

I've written very sad things, and I choke up and hurt and sometimes cry when I go back to those. That means I did it properly. If there's enough story, these things are there, and you have to face them.

I've got several paragraphs scattered across several stories that catch me, every time. Some of them are semi-autobiographical, so that makes sense, but some are completely fictional - shows I'm a sentimental softie at times.

 

[Writer61]

Thanks, all. Nice to know that I am not alone.

 

[AwkwardlySet]

shows I'm a sentimental softie at times.

Aww, Crocodile Dundee blood is definitely getting diluted nowadays.

 

[TheExperimentalist]

Yes.

It proves that the characters we imagine in our minds are real, that they have their desires, feelings, pain, hopes, and dreams, rather than just being puppets we are using to tell a story. Maybe some authors can fully detach from such things, but that's not me.

When I first started writing here, my thoughts were "oh, cool! I can make the characters do anything I want them to!" with thoughts of pulling all the kinky strings. I have since learned that the characters are often more proficient at tugging at MY strings than me at theirs.

 

[Massimo554]

Personally, I kinda dig deep into my real-life experiences when I write my stuff. It's honestly a bit therapeutic to me. Like, I'm able to take people through some of the stuff that happened to me in a way that talking about it out loud really just can't replicate. I think stuff like that is fairly common, though op.

 

[Stanfield2025]

I didn't cry while writing my series, possibly because I'm an outliner. But I did get emotional while writing the FMC's backstory. By the end of the series, I just wanted her to find peace, even if she's low-key a bad person.

 

[Erozetta]

My current WIP, the gift of a recent plot bunny, is basically a group sex story about people volunteering for a medical study. I have a broad outline but am pantsing the details. About halfway through, it has become a tale about the abuse of those involved. The abuse was unintentional by everybody (including me).

I became quite emotional writing the scenes where the abuse became apparent, and the subjects found their way out.

Have you ever become emotional when writing for Lit?

Yes. All the time.

Longing, sadness, fear, worry, care... I feel a lot while I write and I hope it comes across in my writing.


There are also times when I just go completely numb while writing. That happened recently when I wrote "Here" as I recounted a very real experience I had with an ex that I maybe still haven't fully processed what that experience actually was.

 

[BenjaminCarlisle]

I have three things (two under another name) that yes, I’ve become overly emotional on. Oddly, or not probably, enough they all center on the same thing. One I wrote in a complete daze, one I wrote trying to get things out I never thought I could tell the person, and the last they know damn well about and it was one of the harder things I’ve done because it was very much based on reality.

 

[redgarters]

My current WIP, the gift of a recent plot bunny, is basically a group sex story about people volunteering for a medical study. I have a broad outline but am pantsing the details. About halfway through, it has become a tale about the abuse of those involved. The abuse was unintentional by everybody (including me).

I became quite emotional writing the scenes where the abuse became apparent, and the subjects found their way out.

Have you ever become emotional when writing for Lit?

All. The Fucking. Time.
There's one story of mine where I cried while writing it, cried while editing it, cried while thinking about how much I cried and why.

 

[Kumquatqueen]

Oh yes. Some stories I can't write because I get too emotional. My story Last Christmas took about ten years gestating in my mind, and about a year from when I got the crucial line summarising the story. Once I realised that had to go in the middle, not the start, it only took a few days.

The other story I wrote that triggered a lot of emotions is A Tale of Two Christmases - Christmas being the huge emotional holiday with family, in England. Imagine all of Thanksgiving and Christmas and New Year expectation mixed together and secular, and lasting for two weeks. Wonderful or a nightmare, depending on your company. The facts may not be strictly from my life, but all the feelings are.

 

[Erozetta]

All. The Fucking. Time.
There's one story of mine where I cried while writing it, cried while editing it, cried while thinking about how much I cried and why.

I have one like that and I'll never publish it anywhere again because it's very much based on real life. I wrote it for me. Posted it for a little while, then took it down. I wanted people to fucking *hate* the MFC for her poor behavior because it was 100% my poor behavior towards a friend. I was young, stupid, and incredibly afraid of someone actually being genuine in their care for me, because if the care is real and not just about getting something from me, then I have something very real to lose. I still struggle with that.

So, writing out the worst experience of my life is probably also the worst edited thing I've ever done because I was writing it through tears and am tearing up thinking about it now. I don't regret writing it. I do regret ever posting it.

The thing I don't regret posting is the letter that went along with it. That one I wrote fully numb.

 

[ElectricBlue]

Yes. All the time.

Longing, sadness, fear, worry, care... I feel a lot while I write and I hope it comes across in my writing.

Your heart spills from your words, Erozetta, don't ever think it doesn't.