Young Writers Society

Okay, so how many of you...have ever had to kill of those beloved characters? How many of you cry? How many...well...How many feel like you lose a best friend? I am one of those peoples...but I can't get over it! I feel so bad! THEY ARE FICTIONAL! But...they are my best friends, and are the people closest to my heart.....Any of you feel this way?

LOL! Yes! I'll even cry when I'm NOT killing a character!

xD Crying while writing is good, I think. If you're emotional while writing it people are likely to be emotional while reading it.
On the other hand, no, I've never cried. ): I'm jealous of your tears.

Yeah, I'd think of it as a good thing, to be honest. It shows that you're connected to your characters, therefore, there's a good chance that your readers will also feel the same. I don't know if that makes sense... but yeah, it's a thought.

It's never happened to me, personally. Mind you, I've never actually killed any of my own characters, strangely enough. What I will say though is that I have cried over another character dying in a book before. When you mentioned the whole, can't get over it kind of thing, it's like that with me when a character I love dies in a story. It really bugs me... It happened recently, come to think of it. It still hurts me to think about it now! I keep telling myself that the character isn't real, well, wasn't real, but it still makes me as sad as hell! I always go through this when a character I like dies... It actually puts me off reading sometimes! I'm such a wimp...

God knows what would happen if I killed my own characters...

Yes! It happens to me all the time. I make myself laugh too, which is weird because most of the time the jokes my characters make aren't even funny.

I think it's a good sign that you cry for your characters. If you relate to them, there's a good chance the readers will relate to them too.

I've only cried twice while writing. Once when I had to kill one of my most developed character off, and another time recently when my main character was visiting his mother's grave and he was crying sooo.......yeah. lol.

I am still working on my story, but I dont feel like crying whenever I had to drop off a character, I just feel sorry for my characters for the way situations are driving him nuts. But making the chracters behave like humans to natural cirsumstances do makes the story and fictional characters real!

I have killed a character once - so far - and it was a big dramatic deal with murder and violence and all that tragic stuff. And I cried. HARD. And I knew I was going to so I dressed for the occasion with heavy eyeliner and my black fedora (its the hat I wear when I'm most inspired. I have no clue why.). I felt like poor Axel needed all the dramatics I could give him. I must've cried all day. When he died I cried, then dried up a bit, then his love found out and i cried again. Horrible.

And as for crying over book characters that you read. I do that to. It weird because I never cry about stuff in real life. My best friend has never seen me cry. But I get really attatched to characters and then they die. I'm seriously cursed. And I take their deaths to heart. I stopped reading Harry Potter when Sirius died. Then, I convinced myself I that I had to know how the series ended...and I got mad all over again. Why wasn't Sirius in the white room with Dumbledore? I'm still mad.

But I think it is a good thing that your characters are real to you. It will make them real to the reader as well. So let the tears flow!

I've cried a couple times. Once was when I killed off a couple characters. The other time actually wasn't a death scene. It was a really sad yet sweet little scene. I could hardly see my computer screen because my eyes were all watery. My whole family kept peaking around the corner at me, and giving me weird looks which was very annoying, but it turned out to be a really good scene. I don't cry a lot over movies or books, though, so I guess it must be a good sign.

I've cried before when writing, but it wasn't when I was killing off characters. It was when I was writing really emotional scenes.

My mom even started to tear up in at one of the scenes in a novel I wrote.

It's like the quote: "No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader."

I cried when I killed the twin sister of my main character! Of course, I later changed it so she doesn't actually die, but still. When I get to where I kill off the coolest character ever (one of the three main main characters), I am quite sure I will cry. Kianos is just that awesome and lovable of a character.

I thrive on anything and everything depressing. I can write emotion scenes quite easily and I have to try not to apply any sad things to my own life. I have a tendency to think in depressing ways, as in "what would I feel if my best (almost only) friend decided she didn't want to be friends anymore?" or "what if my best friend died"? Then I get about a million emotions which I can cram onto paper. I know I will be using a lot of that "what if my best friend died" stuff for when I kill off Kianos. (Lirmelu is kinda sorta in love with him... poor Lirmelu.)

Either I write things REALLY depressing, or other books just suck at writing things so they're sad. No more than once or twice have I cried at a book. I think I cried ONCE at a movie. I don't remember which movie, though... hmm...

It's nice to know that I'm not the only one who cries at my writing.

I cried while writing earlier when I killed off a characters husbad. I started to tear up...

No. I cackle with glee.

The characters I do kill off I enjoy their deaths very much.

I have to kill off a whole host of characters in my current novel. I'm going to be a mess.