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StarFleet Carl ๐Ÿšซ

I don't know if anyone else has ever done this - or will admit to doing so - but I did something today that I've never done before.

I've been reading stories that affected me so much that I've gotten emotional about them - especially many war stories. But I've never been WRITING a scene that made me emotional. Seriously had to take a time out, blow my nose and wipe my eyes. Twice.

Yes, it was the death scene of one of the sub-characters, but ... damn, so much for being a tough old fart. :)

Vincent Berg ๐Ÿšซ

Yep, it's happened to me a few time, most notably when I was writing the first book in the Great Death series (the one where everyone dies. I got misty several times, when favorite characters died. But the biggest was when, the main character recovers to find his daughter dead, and after an emotional scene, manages to resuscitates her. I was a mess.

It's strange, as I knew who was going to die, though not always how, but I sweated over the final ending, and had worked it out ahead of time, but it was such an emotional scene, it got to me anyway.

You'd think this would happen more often. After all, how is a story going to affect readers if it doesn't affect the author. But sadly, it doesn't happen nearly enough for what we trying to achieve.

Switch Blayde ๐Ÿšซ
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@StarFleet Carl

Yes, I have one part in my YA novel that chokes me up every time I re-read it. Actually, it's one line in the dialogue.

REP ๐Ÿšซ

@StarFleet Carl

I got emotional over killing off Cathy, her parents, and her unborn child in the first part of Ancient Abilities while writing about their deaths and about how Jim dealt with the death of his wife and unborn child.

Michael Loucks ๐Ÿšซ

@StarFleet Carl

But I've never been WRITING a scene that made me emotional. Seriously had to take a time out, blow my nose and wipe my eyes. Twice.

That happened to me when I wrote about several deaths in AWLL. Not something I ever expected to happen. Weirder still is the urge to cry when I reread one of them.

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Switch Blayde ๐Ÿšซ

@Michael Loucks

when I wrote about several deaths

Ha. Everyone else got emotional when they killed off a character. Mine was the opposite. The hero thought his gf was dead and a chapter ended with the pastor in his old town saying: "Jenna's not dead."

Up until then the hero was going through tough times thinking he killed his gf. And then all of a sudden he's told she's not dead. It chokes me up all the time.

limab ๐Ÿšซ

Years ago I went to a convention that Anne McCaffrey (Pern)was supposed to attend with her son. Due to ill health she could not come, but her son Todd told of getting a call with her crying so hard that it took a while for him to understand the problem. She couldn't kill off a character that was in a book that they were writing together. "OK Mom I'll do it"

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awnlee jawking ๐Ÿšซ

@limab

She couldn't kill off a character that was in a book that they were writing together. "OK Mom I'll do it"

Was the son named George RR Martin? ;)

AJ

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joyR ๐Ÿšซ

@awnlee jawking

Was the son named George RR Martin? ;)

G RR M

"Winter is coming" (If you wait long enough)

David Benioff, D. B. Weiss

"Winter is coming" (But turned to slush at the last moment)

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