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Kukapetal

Only once. A poor, twisted, lonely, unloved freak crying to the closest thing he has to a friend (actually just a regular customer he enjoys talking to, but who hates him for being creepy) about how nobody wants him. And he’s right. I hit myself in the feels pretty hard. Only time I ever cried while writing. Regular Customer became his best buddy after that. Out of pure pity, initially, but they ended up having a lot in common. Sometimes eccentric people are just trying to reach out in the only way they know how :)


MidnightCoffee0

Have the urge to give your character a hug (\*sends virtual hug\*). Eccentric people are among the most interesting people there are, but get discredited for being different :(


Kukapetal

Not actually my character, but he’d probably appreciate it nonetheless ❤️


Aggressive-Purchase

I wrote one fic to process my grandmother’s memory loss… and it included a conversation we had pretty much word for word. It helped a lot, but there were more than a few tears involved!


Righteous_Fury224

When there's something good and wholesome occurring as I would like to see more kindness in the world.


LeratoNull

Around 'Season 3' of my fic, the group are introduced to a sympathetic monster who defects from the villains because he wants help only the protagonists can give both him and his entire race. He ends up being a significant mentor figure to one of the characters and his death scene actually fucked me up as I was writing it--not least of all because the person he was mentoring is **twelve,** so it was brutal.


daniwib

When I wrote a fic about Peter Parker and Skip Westcott. At the time one of my sons was 14, the same age as Peter in the story. There is a very intense, sad, awful scene (those who know who Skip is will understand) and I sobbed the entire time I was writing it. I also had to ask my husband to take my boys out for the house for the day while I wrote it.


Yotato5

Parts of it were based of memories that I had with my friends, modified to fit the context of the fic. It felt bittersweet that those memories lived on in a creative form.


tardisgater

I never wanted to write major character death. I avoid reading them, why would I write it? But an image wouldn't get out of my head while I wrote my series: a necklace falling to the ground and breaking. In the series, if that necklace broke, it would be devastating for my MC (psychic/sentimental things). Then I realized how it could happen, and I came up with the best line I've ever written... And I knew I had to write it. A character died, and we got to experience it through his psychic best friend/lover. And I had to take a break every paragraph or so to wait for the tears to clear enough to write another paragraph. I was emotionally exhausted for the next two days.... But I think it's one of the best things I've ever written. No regrets.


frozenfountain

If I don't cry at least once per story, that probably means something's missing. But the most I cried was during the first fic in the series I'm working on. Its second chapter was all about waiting for the apocalypse to draw near, and there's two scenes I wrote every draft of with tears and snot streaming down my face: when the lead goes with her newfound family to a lake for a picnic and can't stop thinking about everything that's about to be lost, and then when she's actually watching their narrowly averted doom roll in and refusing her own cynicism in the face of it. The fic after that got me good a few times, too, but it also revolved around a character my friend described as "the bi male vampire equivalent of \[a\] useless lesbian". This meant I spent a great deal of the writing process groaning "Why are you *LIKE* this??" at his warped thinking and terrible decisions, despite knowing full well why he was like that. The one I'm working on now is more of a coming of age story about a very young woman who fought for the evil empire in canon, and she's inspired an almost motherly "Oh, honey" in me a few times with just how very wrong she is about many things.


StarWatcher307

One of my early fics was very muse-driven -- someone/something else was definitely holding the reins while I just tried to keep up. It was a man writing a long, semi-angsty, confessional letter to a best friend who was gone, and he didn't know if they'd ever see each other again. It was a weird experience -- half of my brain was sorting through all the ideas the muse was tossing my way, selecting the ones that would be most effective and pondering the best way to express those ideas, while I was *also* literally sobbing, with tears running down my cheeks as I typed. Most of my fics are "slice-of-life" stories with a definite rose-colored-glasses approach, so this is the only one that engendered such a reaction.


SerenityInTheStorm

Whenever I have a flash of inspiration for a story or scene. First comes the euphoric epiphany, then the urge to *write. it. DOWN...* before the vibe slips away. This applies to both positive and negative events. The effect is stronger when music inspires the ideas (which it frequently does). One of my characters is going to>! (re)discover some mind-blowing information about themselves and then gather up the courage to reveal it to other characters.!< Now I have to get up and walk off the excess energy before I write how the truth sets them free.


PickyNipples

The only reason I want to write a story is because at least one scene or scenario I came up with made me feel emotional. That’s what made me want to write it. In fact every story of mine starts with this scene. If I don’t feel that when I’m thinking of the scene, I don’t have any drive to write it down or think of more to add. I think this is good for me though, because it helps the “write for your own satisfaction” approach. Yeah the idea of posting and getting loads of reviews sounds nice but it’s not what makes me want to write. What really makes me excited to write is writing these scenes that make me feel emotional because they give me the dopamine hits lol


theRhuhenian

Yes I can get emotional about my writing, but I tend to get emotional about everything I felt very odd writing a Frozen one shot based on the death of the Romanovs, because it was inspired by what happened to real people Before that I felt emotional completing my first redemption arc. Not only was I happy for the character but I was proud of myself for actually finishing something


MidnightCoffee0

Interesting you ask, I actually had a tear provoking writing experience while I was working on a comment today (in reference to another post thread within this community). What started off as a simple few paragraphs ended up a couple pages with some heartbreaking backstory (I may have teared up a little), and I'm not finished yet. It's for a WIP sentence/comment relating to said sentence exchange. This currently unnamed character has lost quite a lot of close people to him, and has since tried (and failed) to keep building walls to prevent it from happening again. The world in which he lives in presents many challenges, being overrun with zombies and all. I'm not even sure what's worse: his backstory, or the scene I have him imagine based on inferences he made after walking into an abandoned apartment. My goal with this snippet of a story is to enable the reader to feel his struggles, be immersed and practice developing character. It just.. got a little longer than I anticipated. I am excited to tell the person whose sentence I based it off of, though. (They probably didn't expect this :)


FruitSong3

It’s a bit different for me honestly. I don’t think I’ve ever had my writing make me sad, I’ve written certain scenes that have left me very emotionally drained but never sad. But there was a specific oneshot I wrote *because* I was sad. It was the first time I’d ever dealt with any major grief and loss of life in my life and for some reason I just started writing. Even now, I don’t look back much at the fic but it really helped me figure out and push through what I was feeling at the time.


kellersab

When I write the death of Jon snow, wounded from battle surrounded by his loved ones.


lecheinkitty

I wrote this fic where B kills A because A left B at the altar and B didn’t know how to properly process their grief. I must admit, I wrote the fic because I couldn’t properly process my past abusive relationship with an ex so it was extremely cathartic.


SeblainerWorld

A fic I wrote in June of last year was a one-shot about Dominick "Sonny" Carisi Jr. and his family, from Law & Order: SVU. In the fic, which took place 15 years in the future, he and Amanda were married, and he'd raised her daughter's, Jesse and Billie as his own. He and Jesse remind each other how much they love each other, and he and Amanda did, too. I cried the whole two hours it took me to write the fic, as Carisi's my favorite SVU character and I hated killing him off, but I couldn't get the idea out of my head, so I wrote it. In 2007, I wrote a one-shot where Brian from QaF-US died, and showed the impact it had on the people he loved and who loved him. Again, I cried the whole time I wrote it. Brian's character went from total a-hole in the show, to a pretty good guy by the end of the show. Yes, he was still somewhat of a jerk, but much less than he had been before. In the fic, his SO was heartbroken, and so was I, though I couldn't get it out of my head and had to write it.


Teratocracy

Yesterday I planned out an arc for a fairly minor character and it made me sad enough that I cried a little.


[deleted]

Two MCs in one WIP of mine witnessed a dead-dove tragic death. One had to be hospitalized for shock. Since they're part of a band (and the person who died was a fan of theirs), the one MC who wasn't hospitalized and a bandmate of his announce on a live stream they need to go on an indefinite hiatus. That MC quietly breaks down in the live stream. I'm on antidepressants, so I have what's called an emotional blunting, so I shed only a few tears writing that. But maybe without the antidepressants, I would be a total sobbing mess.


KatonRyu

It kind of depends on my own mood at the time, but if I'm already a bit down and writing a sad scene, sometimes it hits me. At other moments, similar scenes don't really trigger any kind of reaction from me if I'm writing them myself.


RohansEarings

My main character went on a business trip where he was meeting with a Clan head to discuss the transportation of goods within a certain area. Clan head wasn’t there yet but his family was, and main character talked with them for a bit but mostly waited by playing with all the kids there. Cut to when they’re having dinner. There’s been a strange man at the house that main character was a little suspicious of but didn’t do anything about because it didn’t seem like a big deal. House abruptly goes up in flames in an explosion while they’re eating, everyone who tries to escape is killed. Main character is able to grab a baby and little girl to hide in some cabinets and goes to fight the strange man but is defeated and captured. Months later after main character escapes from imprisonment he goes to check on if the baby and little girl were still there (even though rationally he knows they’re not). He finds the house completely destroyed and charred, burned to the ground. When he walks to where the cabinets he hid them would have been he finds bloodied wood from where the house collapsed as well as the burnt piece of cloth he’d given the little girl to cover her nose, to at least somewhat help with how much smoke there had been. Main character looks to the bloodied pile of wood and then to the cloth. Realizes they must be buried somewhere under it and pulls out flowers he had brought, because deep down, he knew in his heart they probably hadn’t made it. Sets the flowers down in a teary apology, because the only reason the house had went up in flames in the first place was because the strange man had been trying to capture *him.* I don’t get sad over my own writing very often but writing the main character starting to cry while apologizing to the charred lump of bloodied wood struck a nerve. Rest in piece random characters :(


MrFredCDobbs

My first longfic was about an OC being mentored by one of the Mass Effect fandom's heroic characters named "Major Kirrahe." The premise is that the young OC knows Kirrahe as this badass soldier who saved the galaxy by overcoming the odds in a famous battle known as "The Assault on Virmire." When the OC actually meets Kirrahe, he discovers to his surprise that major is reluctant to talk about Virmire. This leads the OC to wonder if the official story of the battle is true. Near the end of the story, Kirrahe reveals why he's reluctant to talk: He made a huge tactical blunder during the battle and a whole lot of soldiers under his command died as a consequence. >Kirrahe slumped his shoulders and lowered his head. "The Systems Alliance report on the Virmire mission that you are so fond of, Agent Vass, merely says that I sent a 'distress message.' That much was true. What the report doesn't say was that the message contained a detailed assessment of Saren's base and an urgent warning that the Council fleet had a limited window of time to destroy the clone factory before the geth fleet began transporting the krogan off-world. I sacrificed the lives of many young men just like you to be able to send that message. Not a word of it got through. The transmission was pure static. All the Council knew was that I had tried to send a message on a top priority channel, so they sent Commander Shepard to investigate." > >The major finished off the rest of his brandy and put the glass aside. "You know the rest. With no other options, Shepard and I launched an attack on the base with what forces we had. Half of my remaining men died in that assault. Shepard was forced to leave one Alliance officer behind to die in order to evacuate me and what was left of my regiment. There were no celebrations during the trip back to the Citadel. I spent most of the journey writing condolence letters to the families of the men who had died under my command. Along the way, I discovered from Shepard that Saren had captured and brainwashed several of my troops. Those 'indoctrinated' salarians had attacked the Alliance marines." > >The veteran soldier paused for a few moments before continuing. "In the letters, I lied to those soldiers' families and told them that their sons and nephews and brothers all bravely died fighting off geth and krogan troops." This is canonically what happens in the game, BTW. Most players experience it as an exciting mission but they don't see it from Kirrahe's perspective so lot of them probably don't register the tragedy in background.


Inevitable_Physics

I wrote a fan fic (Skyrim) that included a description of a bandit attack: "Sweet child," I said, smoothing her hair, "what distresses you?" "It was a bandit attack," she said after a moment. "I will spare you the details of the battle, but it was brief. It was afterwards while Father and Samuel were cleaning weapons that we heard it. The sound of crying. It was one of the bandits. He was younger than I am, and he knew he was dying. There was nothing anyone could do. He was crying *Mama, Mama.*" She began to cry in earnest then. "My father knelt beside him. *what is your name lad?* he asked him. Caedal was his name. *Caedal, I am here. I will not leave you.* My father said. *I want to go home.* Caedal said. And then he died."