Getting A Little Bit Too Into It?

Have you ever sat down and started writing a peticularly emotional or intense story, and you find yourself almost thrust into the emotions of your characters?

I am sitting here right now, writing a chapter in which my main character is going through a meth withdrawl, and I cant help but start shaking, typing way too fast, and I am having a hard time focusing. :shock:

Has this ever happened to you?

The first one-shot I ever wrote was more personal and therapeutic than most other things I've written. In it, the character was typing something and having a particularly distraught moment. I wrote about her fingers flying across the keyboard at warp speed, her tears falling on the keys and such. That was all happening to me as I wrote. I've never had anything like that happen since then.

That happened with two one shots.

When I was writing Calm and Quiet, which was about these two lovers and one is dying, I started crying halfway through. When Gerard started whispering into Frank's hair, I couldn't take it and I started crying. It was this moment where Gerard and Frank just became names and the moment and that picture and the sadness of it all just kind washed over the entire room.

And when I was writing "Sunrise"...it was my interpretation of 2000 Light Years Away. And I felt like i just took a step and landed in the song. And I just felt so happy and so at peace...=)

Yes, totally.
Especially when something big is about to happen, and I'm writing and getting totally anxious and nervous along with the characters.
It's good when that happens to you. It means your intune with your characters emotions.
Actually, I just made that up, but it makes sense, doesn't it?

It happens to me a lot while writing oneshots since it's the first time writing that character and oneshots have a lot more emotion thrown in then stories since its so spread out between chapters in stories.

I also have a problem with having the same thoughts and actions when I read something that is written really well. It's sometimes a really bad thing.

That's happened to me.
In To the Bones I found myself fighting against myself to not purge.

And I've cried while acting out the dialogue to numerous stories.

Yes, it has. I killed off one of my most beloved original fiction character, and as his lover was breaking down, I was also quite close to my breaking point. During math class, no less. I was near tears.

I feel you on the feeling the character's emotions. When I was writing a sad chapter in FTTDIAMOM I actually felt sad and kind of depressed as I started writing it. Then when I was finished and re-read it my eyes started watering. It was really weird. It happens to me alot when I write certain chapters.

When I was writing the scene where Victoria finally confesses to bieng raped, I literally bursted out crying until tears soaked the entire page. I went through about 7 rewrites before I felt like I could post it.

When I was writing the scene where Victoria finally confesses to bieng raped, I literally bursted out crying until tears soaked the entire page. I went through about 7 rewrites before I felt like I could post it.

Yes.

Sometimes I get way too in character that I don't realize that I am feeling certain things because...it is like I am possessed or something and don't realize what I am writing until I finish. But there have been times where I have started crying while writing a chapter. Like, in Nanashi, I started bawling like a maniac because Gerard was meeting his dead lover Jared in a dream and Jared was just telling him to let go. And I cried >_<

Other times, I see the vision of one of my characters dying and I start crying because I know that means I have to kill them. Like a certain character in a certain story that I will not named because a lot of people read it, is going to die in the sequel, and when I saw his death I cried for two hours >_<

This happens to me every time I write. I get so caught up in what's happening in the story I start feeling what the characters are feeling. It's annoying at times, I'll get so depressed because the character is that it'll be hard to finish the chapter and make them feel better. =/

I'm trying to write a chapter at the moment that is so much of an emotional roller coaster I'm really fighting with it. I'm the one who feels like their feeling all these different emotions, and it's making it difficult to concentrate on the writing and making it fit right. The scene's just pretty intense, and I'm feeling just like that every time I try to write it.

It's really quite odd, and quite annoying for me because I'm struggling to update now.

Happened while I was writing a death scene in Matters of the Heart, while I was RPing Jared Way, and while writing a scene in Don't Take My Brother. I was crying and shivering while typing it.

I don't consider it getting "too into" the story, though.
I think it's important to commit.
And feeling the emotions your characters are feeling, it's just part of bringing them to life. They wouldn't be real if they didn't make us feel.

I do this so often. I don't consider it getting 'too into' something, I just think it helps the character seem more believable.

This might sound kind of corny but my characters are kind of who I am. Or more specifically who I WANT to be.

Obviously I don't want to get raped etc. But there is something special about them that makes me keep wanting to writing about their lives. I wish I was interesting. =[

I've nearly cried while writing some of the scenes in my stories, because I was actually feeling what my characters were feeling.
Like, while I was writing the first chapter of Burning., I kept feeling Ryan's emotions--conflicted, worried, even a bit angry--and some of Brendon's--nonchalant, excited.
And I almost always act out the dialogue for my stories, so that makes it emotionally intense for me as well.
It's not really getting "too into" the story, though, at least not in my opinion. It's important to feel like you can relate to the characters and have a general idea of what they're feeling emotionally. It brings a story to life.

Well, I don't get emotional in a weepy, sad way.

I get really crazy and starting chuckling to myself, grinning madly, and pretty much just laughing as I type.

or maybe I'm insane?

Even when I'm writing about very serious matter, I still can't help but laugh.

I laughed when I got in a car accident, and I laughed when I broke my foot. I laugh in any dire situations, so it transfers its way to me as I write.
Now when I really get into my stories?

I must take breaks. I must stand up, pace around in my room, turn up my radio, dance like a crazy person a bit, then go back to my laptop, bust out another scene, then repeat, about, five more times before I finish a chapter. By the time I'm finished, I'm completely out of breath and drained. I like my exercise, what can I say.

...But that only happens when I'm wayyy too deeply involved in my story. Rarely does this happen, though. It's a shame, because some of my best work happens when I do this.

eta; i know when I'm too deeply involved when I start dreaming about my characters, dreaming up scenerious and writing future dialogue on my arms. Not cool.at.all.

When I get too into a character's mindset I find my... inner dialogue, would you call it? That sub-conscious stream of thoughts that narrates my day, starts to sound like my character.

It bloody creepy, to be honest.