Emotions

HareBrain said:
It's quite obvious that none of you are English.
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Pardon me I am feeling a little verbose tonight (probably the Red Bull I shouldn't have drank)

Not only am I English I've been doing my family history for 26 years in a desperate hope of finding someone exotic who isn't Scot, English or from that far flung land of Ireland. When Anastasia Kimlin came into my life I was delighted only to discover Kimlin was the anglicisation of an ancient Irish name and Anastasia was a common saints name in that area of Ireland! There's nothing wrong with a bit of eccentricity ;) and I figure crying over my imaginary friends is just that.
 
I don't remember ever crying when I was actually writing a scene ... maybe I was concentrating too hard on the writing of it ... but I have cried buckets working out scenes in my head. (Not all of them are for books I've actually written.)
 
Juliana said:
I think my stories are too peppy for a proper cry. But I did just revise a first kiss scene and go all mushy and 'd'aww' at my little teen lovers. Will that do?
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You're not supposed to allow them to be happy! Unless it's for a brief moment before you crush them.

Sometimes I think we concentrated on the wrong things in the Toolbox thread.
 
The sexiest scene I ever wrote, I think, was in The Queen's Necklace, and it's all build up. Once I get the characters to the brink of doing anything that is, you know, I figured it was time to respect their privacy and leave them alone.

As I have been reading a lot of romance novels lately, I have read a fair few sex scenes because it seems like almost all of the historical novels have them. And I discovered that the explicit ones were all pretty much the same and and they were actually quite boring and I hadn't been eager to read them in the first place (so now I skip them), and the most ... stimulating ... scenes I have ever read were full of sexual tension instead of actual sex.
 
And right now I am in tears having written a scene where Kit (my MC) opens box that belonged to his mother. To slightly misquote Dolly Parton: "This scene is absolutely pitiful."

The ladies in my Chat Room got me to write a very kinky novella because I said it was just another action scene and couldn't understand why they got all het up over putting the erotica in ;)

But anything in my stories is usually very tame with a last minute strategic bowl of fruit. With one exception.
 
springs said:
I always thought we needed a guide to a good sex scene post in there. Volunteers? :D
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I was about to volunteer but then I realised I had read your post wrong Springs.

However if you do need someone to give the fascinating history of the 17th Century after-dinner entertainment of sex-scene posts, a craze that lasted a few decades that involved a passing around a long timber covered with wood cuts of a bawdy and very graphic nature to entertain the guests near the end of the evening then I'm your man. Likely origin of the term 'I've got wood' don't you know.
 
Too British?!

There's no such thing, old bean.
 
I've cried while writing, yes. Sometimes, I think it's because I don't want to torture my poor characters anymore. :)
 
I'm often brought to tears by my writing. Sometimes the emotional scenes get to me also.

I have a reader who claimed to bleed from their eyes and ears.

Seriously though I have been touched by a scene more than once and have found it prudent to take that only as a sign that I might be reading past my capacity to write. Until a beta mentions something I have to assume that there is a possibility that what has gotten to me might not yet be in the text.

If I ever figure that out....
But I think it might be similar to humor and it might be subjective sometimes.
 
Kerrybuchanan said:
I've just finished writing a couple of chapters in which, to cut to the chase, the guy gets the gal and a couple of good men die. A simple formula, you'd think, one we all use in one form or another, surely?

So why is it that after writing something like this I get up for a break and find my heart aches in my chest, my eyes are heavy and my head pounds with pain as though I was the woman swept off her feet against her better judgement, following her heart instead of her head; as though I was the one who cradled the boy in my arms while my tears dripped onto his face, watching the light going out of his eyes as the last breath leaves his body.

Is this normal? Is this something I should be worrying about?

If it is normal and you all share this experience, which I suspect you do, then I think writers are grossly under-valued for what they do. I feel wrung out like a wet rag.
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I just watched "Romancing the stone" with Kathleen Turner playing the writer, finishing the grand finale at the end of her novel and she is blubbering away, a Snuffy nosed mess.. And she has used up every scrap of tissue, and paper napkin and paper towels.. Every spindle bearing an emptied tube written over with plot points... And the constant reminder to buy more tissue..
Then in frustration she grabs the post-it with "buy Kleenex!" Written in bright marker, and blows her nose on it.

So... yes?
 
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