Saddest episode

arogya 2025-01-17 07:51:34 UTC #1

As a writer I always find myself overwhelmed while write a sad plot in my novels. The plot where my characters are at their worst, sometimes I don't want them to go through these phases but it's important.

Here's like to the saddest episode till now, where my strongest male lead is so weak and vulnerable learning about past?

What is your saddest plot in your novel? Did you also struggle writing this part? If yes the how do you overcome that phase?

kyupol 2025-01-17 08:46:09 UTC #2

This is my saddest part so far

There's gonna be a future scene that will be even sadder. Made me tear up writing it.

mohdadeebace 2025-01-17 10:36:54 UTC #3

DID SOMEONE ASKED FOR A SAD EPISODE????

TRY THIS EPISODE

keshsaba 2025-01-17 12:12:04 UTC #4

Renaissance_Fox 2025-01-17 17:45:05 UTC #5

This is my sad episode. I didn't think this character deserved to die. And oh! That poor rabbit

ThunderChicken 2025-01-17 21:41:58 UTC #6

Let's see...

You can have this episode, where a six-year-old child dies in a drowning incident on New year's Eve:

Or this one, where a fourteen year old kid dies in a structure fire:

...Or this one, in which a major character commits suicide:

And the saddest thing about all of these? This book is a true story. All of this tragedy, all these deaths, really happened.

Ordinaryaverageguy 2025-01-18 00:54:15 UTC #7

Ember mourns the passing of her knight.

EncryptedWriting 2025-01-18 01:15:07 UTC #8

This deserves a TW and mods feel free to flag it if it ruins any guidelines. I will block (blur it) incase.

For my old story, back from when I was 14 - 16, I had quite a long novel. At the end, the good guys win and all. There was the mentor of the story who at first was bad but was actually good all along. Super gruff guy who took no nonsense.

We end up learning that he is the brother of the antagonist, but his position as a mentor is more of a ploy to lead the MC to her death. Anyways, his backstory is kind of tragic.

TW for this part entirely:

TW please don't read if you struggle with mental health issues and may feel that this is a difficult topic for you.

We learn that he had a wife and young daughter that he loved dearly. However, his brother had both of them murdered, forcing the mentor into the program to catch the MC. This dude was broken hearted, he was a completely amazing dad and lost it like that.

Yet that's not the end of the sad part. It's the second to last chapter, after the big event happens and things boil down, that the MC receives a letter from this person. She hadn't heard from him in a few days. It reveals that this was his final letter and that he killed himself. He said that he wanted to be with his wife and daughter again. And now that he manages to help find his life purpose (saving the MC) he can't bear the pain of not having his family.

The MC is an utterly mess as she learns the same day that she is actually infertile. She was never interested in having kids right away, but it was sad to her.

So, yeah. That makes me cry everytime I think about the chapter.

MelancholicOtaku 2025-01-18 01:25:18 UTC #9

Chapter 2 part one where we first learn of Mc’s brother’s disappearance.

remiquise 2025-01-18 02:06:19 UTC #10

All the short stories in my collection of shorts are miserable and just sad...
But, if I were to pick one, this one; it's about a teenager with an abusive mother and how even as she sits and does nothing he lives walking on eggshells and how self harm feels more loving than his own parent.

I did not struggle to write it at all, as I said, most of what I write is misery. If anything it was cathartic. Perhaps, even, I view it as the saddest chapter because of why I found it so cathartic. Who can say.

TnrOfficial 2025-01-18 02:12:55 UTC #11

There are a couple moments in my story that are pretty sad but the one that's the most gut-wrenching is near the mid-end of CH9 when my character Damon, a father who's been missing for years returns back to the kingdom and finds out the horrifying fate of his daughter and best friend, the faces of some of the characters in this moment is probably some of the best emotions I've drawn in the series so far.

XiuLyn_12 2025-01-18 02:44:03 UTC #12

The saddest part of the story hasn't been published yet. But lemme tell you, I had a lot of difficulty writing those scenes! I kept trying to find ways to ensure they flowed well while maintaining a sad tone. I think I did okay with the draft, but I’ll have to see how my readers respond to it!

Since the scene hasn't been published yet, I think my saddest episode would be episode one. (Though I doubt any of my readers find it particularly "sad", ahaha!)

keshsaba 2025-01-18 08:34:02 UTC #13

@ThunderChicken hi wanna do sub4sub?
here is mine

keshsaba 2025-01-18 08:34:36 UTC #14

@XiuLyn_12 hi wanna do sub4sub?
here is mine

keshsaba 2025-01-18 08:35:17 UTC #15

@remiquise
hiyya wanna do sub4sub
here is mine

keshsaba 2025-01-18 08:35:55 UTC #16

@Ordinaryaverageguy yoo wanna do sub4sub
here is mine

eternityoz 2025-01-22 06:21:49 UTC #17

This is most definitely the saddest part I've published so far, but there is much more trauma and suffering to come-

arcaneer99 2025-01-24 04:23:44 UTC #18

Hello

I still have a while until I get to my saddest episodes. I had to rewrite these few chapters to make them deep, meaningful, realistic and impressionable.

raspberry590 2025-01-24 05:55:37 UTC #19

This is an interesting topic! I agree it can be a challenge and I'm always a bit surprised by what parts end up being harder for me as a writer.

Here is the hardest part of this particular novel for me to write so far even though it actually marks an important and positive turning point for the character. Even thought it's a positive development for the character it broke my heart to write it. I think the reason is that its all from the perspective of someone with a lot of internalized trauma and I had to work harder than usual to stay within that mindset for the narration (unreliable narrator whoop whoop). There are other chapters I've written that deal with more obvious anguish and really difficult events but somehow this part was more painful for me as the writer.

In writing this, I definitely had to pause more to consider how to best stay in her headspace, and I found maintaining that very tiring. It helps that its a dual POV novel, since the following chapter happened to be from the other lead's perspective and it gave me a bit of a break from that process. There's definitely more of this to come though in this story and it will be interesting dealing with it as a writing challenge. My characters always end up surprising me somehow as they develop and I'm sure she will too.

Novel: The Fake Saintess Doesn't Want to Save the World

Chapters: A Caged Bird in an Open Cage, Parts 1 & 2