Have you ever cried at your work?

[TheEarl]

I've just brought tears to my eyes by being thoroughly mean to my characters. I know what's going to happen at the end already, I know I'm going to kill one of them and I know how it's going to happen. Yet I still had tears in my eyes as I wrote the scene of him begging him, pleading with him not to leave, knowing that he's going off to try and sacrifice himself to save her.

I just hope my writing lives up to the pictures in my head and I make my readers cry as well.

Have you ever done this?

The Earl

 

[yui]

I've just brought tears to my eyes by being thoroughly mean to my characters. I know what's going to happen at the end already, I know I'm going to kill one of them and I know how it's going to happen. Yet I still had tears in my eyes as I wrote the scene of him begging him, pleading with him not to leave, knowing that he's going off to try and sacrifice himself to save her.

I just hope my writing lives up to the pictures in my head and I make my readers cry as well.

Have you ever done this?

The Earl

Once.

I usually just mourn quietly for them.

 

[arienette]

I used to write poems based around dying - because I was a very very cynical girl; well, I still am. I never cried, though; always just used my writing to vent how I feel inside - which most of the time is dead. But then again, I am not a very experienced writer as the Litsters.

 

[rgraham666]

Yep.

The scene in one of my stories where my female character decided she couldn't bear to see her comatose lover any more got me all choked up when I wrote it.

I've gone a little overboard in my latest and knocked off five characters. But it's a horror piece so I'm allowed.

 

[Liar]

Nope. I'm way too technical about my writing to get attached to characters that way. Empathy is important, but sympathy won't work.

 

[impressive]

Have you ever done this?

The Earl

Many times.

Even now, I cry when I read my L&T entitled "Decisions."

 

[Guest]

I haven't actually cried over anything for nearly 14 years. However, every time I read "Do You Still Love Me" I get choked up in several places.

 

[CharleyH]

I usually just mourn quietly for them.

I mourn loudly for me and those around me, but then I am me. I never cried at work, or after, but sure as hell I get angry, and have at people who cry ... at work, Earl? You are too young. ITS WORK FOR CHRIST SAKE! Who fucking cares? Is working for an ass the be all and end all of your life? It iis just a job that you can quit.

 

[ElizabethWest]

Yep.

 

[OhMissScarlett]

A few days ago, I was making some notes about the climax of my story and I got a little weepy. There have been a few other stories I cried about too. I get way too involved with my characters. Miss Scarlett=total sap

p.s. Earl, if you make me cry with a certain story, I'm going to come to England and spank you until you cry.

 

[minsue]

I mourn loudly for me and those around me, but then I am me. I never cried at work, or after, but sure as hell I get angry, and have at people who cry ... at work, Earl? You are too young. ITS WORK FOR CHRIST SAKE! Who fucking cares? Is working for an ass the be all and end all of your life? It iis just a job that you can quit.

Woman, you've GOT to start reading the posts before you reply....

 

[elsol]

God doesn't cry.

Sincerely,
ElSol

 

[minsue]

God doesn't cry.

Sincerely,
ElSol

You sure about that?

 

[yui]

Woman, you've GOT to start reading the posts before you reply....

I was going to say something, but she was kind enough to quote me ...

 

[logophile]

None of my porn has ever made me cry, but sometimes my parenting column will make me weep like a baby when I'm reading it out loud to my kids after publication.

 

[Aleycat69]

I cry...

I write songs sometimes about charactors, but then, they are always me in the end... can't kill me off... but sometimes memorie's so relavent I can't help it.

 

[hurricane64]

I'm working on something and I have a flashback portion of it that really hits me hard.

I really felt it when I was writing it and it still kind of bothers me now. Which is all kind of odd since I've never experienced anything like it.

 

[Rumple Foreskin]

Have you ever cried at your work?

My first reaction was the same one Scarlett had. Hell, no I've never cried at work, except maybe when the paychecks were handed out.

But now I realize he meant "over something you've written." Same basic answer. The only time I ever got emotional wasn't after killing off the female protag at the end of a novel, but describing the funeral and then a scene with the male protag alone at her grave.

But then, I'm an old softy.

Rumple Foreskin

 

[Penelope Street]

Have you ever done this?

I cry anywhere I work on a story. And that's everywhere.

 

[Blackie Malone]

Woman, you've GOT to start reading the posts before you reply....

BAHAHAHAHAHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!

 

[shereads]

I've written a couple of stories that made me cry. They were too personal to show to anyone else.

That's the trouble with writing. When I do it well, the stories are so personal that I won't risk rejection by letting people read them.

 

[English Lady]

I cried when the end of "A fruitful life" came to me, it was just so very heart-wrenchingly sad (started a thread on it at the time if I remember) and the end of "Till the End" choked me up too, but i'd been writing it for so long, that might just have been I couldn't believe I'd finished writing it!


Otherwise I'm a cryer. I cry alot, everywhere. All emotions come out as tears for me*L*

 

[rwattsIII]

Sometimes my job is very sad. I am a case manager in a homeless program. I hear a lot a sad stories. Sometimes my eyes tear up when I'm talking with my clients. No out right sobbing, though. Rather unprofessional.

 

[carsonshepherd]

I've never actually cried, but I did write a story where the character;s death happened very soon into the story, and the rest of it involved flashbacks explaining his relationships with the other chracters. By the time I caught up to the part where he died, I liked him so much I didn't want to kill him, wihch would've ruined the whoe story. I went around so sad, I felt almost like someone really had died.

 

[Guest]

only once...when i wrote about mom's death. today is the year anniversary...god what a sucker punch.