Have you ever written a scene that made you cry

[LakeLake]

Have you ever written a scene so sad you teared up or caused the characters you care deeply about to suffer through pain and trauma for the sake of the plot that it made you cry?

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I've been in a state of tears during a scene in the project I'm working on that with each round (script, thumbnails, etc.). Even when I thought I was mentally prepared for it once I started the line art. I couldn't help but get emotional again. Even just thinking about certain scenes in some of my future projects can make me cry. And all these tears come from someone who otherwise rarely cries. Maybe its a sign that I'm really attached to my characters, or maybe that I should try writing something that doesn't involve some sort of tragedy.

This made me curious if other creators go through similar experiences with their own writing.

[Jenny-Toons]

Yep! Several times, in fact. Though, a lot of the scenes that hit my heart the most are scenes that I've directly connected to myself in some way. A lot of my comics will have elements taken from my own personal experiences -- mostly through the relationships between characters (especially when it comes to family).

Either that, or it's the certain tropes I work with. Lemme tell you -- have me read or work with anything that has "star-crossed lovers destined for tragedy" PLUS "reincarnated lovers who find each other again and again" and you will see tears in milliseconds.

[indagold]

Nope, I know its not real and since the biggest rule for story telling is making characters suffer to grow, I'm more than happy to follow it. I expect the readers to cry not myself... It's kinda like laughing at your own jokes.

[adrienclifton]

Some of my writing is really personal or is loosely based in something real, I think a lot of people work through their own traumas or emotions creatively. I certainly do. It can help recontextualize something terrible as something you can now control. It can help you express something you never thought you could say out loud.

It could also be that, if it wasn't intentional, you've projected some part of yourself into that character or event. Maybe there's something in your personal life you've tried to ignore that really did hurt you, however unrelated, and it's coming up now because it feels more acceptable to cry for this character.
It doesn't have to be something massive, like grief or trauma, though it could be. It could be as simple as stress, and we're all stressed now more than ever.

Or maybe you just have a soft heart heh heh sometimes it really not that deep. I've definitely cried over goddamn my little pony fanfiction and that's like as low as the bar can go.

[AmysGames]

It has happened! I don't cry over fictional stuff very often, I guess because I feel some sort of disconnect between stuff that happens in a story versus stuff that happens IRL. Not that I don't feel emotional over it—I do—but the story usually has to hit pretty close to home before I actually start crying. And yeah, it has happened with my own writing a couple of times.

[IdiotWithPencil]

I don't even cry in most movies,series,comics,books,etc. the last one that made me cry in was death parades 11th episode and that was after binging it the first time and 5 years ago, never cried since =/

[DokiDokiTsuna]

Short answer: No.

Long answer: ...No.
I do feel sort of 'heavy' when I have to write deeply emotional/painful stuff, but nowhere near crying. I...just don't think I'm the kind of person who does that. ^^;

[magnavarra]

i have written a song that made me cry... I mean despite knowing the lyrics , which I have written, hearing the actual voice that sung it with those emotions,,, - It was tears of joy and pride and sadness at the same time

here is the song btw

[darthmongoose]

I'm a really sensitive person, so having to draw and write my characters experiencing trauma upsets me. Particularly bad was this page:

Errant :: Chapter 0: Page 30 | Tapas

From Sarin's perspective this is just... an incredibly traumatic scene. Her best friend just got punched out and is unresponsive, her mentor opened this mysterious portal thing that will bring a lot of suffering and has given this huge, creepy demon permission to steal her body... It's an absolutely hopeless feeling and all she can do is flail ineffectively. She doesn't even entreat the gods for help, she asks them to curse Urien; she's just that sure she's dead here.
I was upset the entire time I was working on this page and my partner kept needing to get me to take breaks.

I think for artists it can be more intense because we tend to mimic our characters expressions and posture while drawing. Drawing a comic is a lot like acting; you have to get into your character's head to really nail the posture and faces and because it takes a long time, you might be stuck in that intense scene for several hours, days or weeks while you draw all these anguished expressions and poses.

[AbelDraws]

Definitely x'D I'm very very emotional when I become attached to something, and my characters mean the world to me.

I almost started crying on the train one day on my way to college just by thinking about a scene near the end hahahaha. It wasn't because something bad happened, on the contrary, but it's such a powerful and meaningful scene and I'm positive I'm going to cry a river the moment I get there.

I'm positive I'll cry working on more scenes tho >.>" it's not the same imagining the scenes vaguely in your head than working on them.

[unknown_user]

I did... when I thought through the final scene of the true ending of my comics, it made me cry. More than once...

[Iris-Grimoire]

Never to the point of crying, but I do get really upset and sometimes take a break to see things more clearly. Stories where nothing goes wrong ain't my style but also I don't like seeing my characters getting abused, verbally or physically.

[TheYaoiEmpire]

When I wrote Beelzebub’s death scene, that made me sad.

[silverraven0]

I've written several scenes that literally make me bawl (because I'm WEAK) and ended up uh, not continuing it for months some times.

[konori]

I've recently cried during the conceptualization of a depressing story, but when I got down to writing it, I didn't feel as sad, and I'm starting to doubt if it's even a story worth writing.

[SoenKai]

Yeah, more than once. XD Because I'm a very emotional being. Me crying over a scene I just came up with is usually a good indicator that it will touch my readers as well.

[Aims]

If i'm not crying, the scene isn't emotional enough.

[azzy-m]

No. Mainly because I don't cry in general, and when I do, it's for the stupidest reasons, haha. I'm slightly jealous of people who can cry easily.

There ARE scenes where I kind of have to sit down and be like "Oh, Christ. It's one of these scenes". Which is perfect, for me at least.

[Kiweevil]

No but it made my friend cry lmao. I was just reading out what I had wrote, I hadn't even illustrated it yet. My friend was bawling. Basically just the scene in which Shilo's father gets shot in the stomach infront of Shilo's mother, and she has to watch him bleed to death right infront of her. This takes place just after he finds out she's pregnant

Had to stop reading the script to my friend lol. She kept screaming WHY WOULD YOU WRITE THAT?! WHY DID YOU KILL HIM???

And I was like I DIDN'T KILL HIM, FREDDIE DID! HE SHOT HIM NOT ME! lmao

[Darth_Biomech]

I mean, when I write some scenes my eyes do tear up, but I do not experience any discernible emotion at the time, certainly not sadness, neither the scenes I write are sad... does that count?