Getting A Little Bit Too Into It?

I was driving to Best Buy a while back and almost started crying because I was driving down the road where one of my MCs dies in a car wreck.

Yes. With the stories I feel like the characters are like me. My fictional characters make my heart hurt sometimes, with the emotion I feel with them.

I've made myself cry while writing way too many times to count.
I'll just be sitting there with my notebook, scribbling away and bawling my eyes out...
Very awkard situations when someone walks in and asks you why your crying...

I was writing a Frerard story and Frank got killed, and Gerard never told him that he loved him. I cried a lot when I wrote it, because Gerard had to break down and sob loudly and shake him and beg for him to wake up. It's probably themost emotional scene I ever wrote.

It's happened to me a few times before. When I wrote a sad scene, I sometimes would cry while I was writing. It's like I was feeling exactly what the characters were feeling.

I remember writing this horror scene, where this girl is trapped and getting dragged away. I actually felt scared.

I've cried twice now while writing the Angels and Poets series with Isa. The second time would be right now. I don't know. It reminds me of the movie 'Closer' somehow.

The story I'm writing right now has a closeted main character, so I've been getting really into gay rights recently. A few weeks ago there was a pride parade near where I live, and we drove through it (I had SATs that morning at the high school... blech) and I literally felt this sense of relief and happiness that my character would feel if he had been there. It's crazy.

I wrote a self insert play about something I'm going through right now and I got real angry and I cried at the end.

I wrote a one-shot about two people playing russian roulette with a revolver. I could feel my heartbeat starting to quicken and stuff, as if I was personally playing and my life was on the line.
I've also started crying over sad scenes where one of my characters are dying.

I cry quite a lot when I'm writing sad scenes, and even more when I re-read them afterwards. I also can feel my heart racing every time there's an exciting or intense or important part to the story, and if I'm writing a really dark or heavy part, it can affect my mood completely and make me really upset for the next couple of hours.

I cried a little bit when I finished writing The Little Voices but it's sort of autobiographical and really kind of personal, so.

I just started crying again when I read White Lightning It was a really hard one to write because I consider the person in that story to be one of my hero's.

I cried when writing parts of 'Edges of Perfection', and my hands tingled so much they hurt. And often when I'm writing, I shut my eyes and make myself feel everything my character is feeling.

I used to get really into a couple of my stories to the point where I felt like I was fighting for my characters, but that hasn't happened in a long time. It's probably because I don't like my stories as much anymore.

I've done this so many times, but the most memorable one was when writing Starless Eyes, my MC slipped into a comatose state after a fight with cancer and her husband had to detach her from life support and I bawled like a baby because his heart just broke in two and I just couldn't take it.

I cried writing the chapter "Walking With a Ghost" from Brendan Dude because it just felt like a nightmare I'd be unlucky enough to have. I lost it when Brendan became a child again; I was bawling, man.

There's a big moment in Generation Why Bother (as of now, this part is unposted) that was really difficult to write because it hit me where it hurts and is so poignant to me.

I always get emotional in my stories, and more so if I've worked on them for a long time. If I've taken the time to plan them and such, I'll always have some strong connection to some of the characters. There's a particular scene I'm envisioning in my head in Alice's Coffee Shop and man, it's going to break my heart to write. My heart physically hurts just thinking about it.

I've recently been getting really into my stories again and it feels good to start writing and sort of experience the same emotions that they do.

I tend to feel at least to some extent what my characters are feeling, especially if it is an intense emotional scene. Like if it is something terrifying to them, then I am on the edge of my seat, and my heart is probably beating faster and stuff like that. Sometimes writing becomes an (usually mild) emotional roller coaster.

Oh, and I don't know if anyone else does this, but sometimes I do this weird thing where if I stay sort of in the headspace of a certain story or its universe, I'll sort of react to reality accordingly, so I'll be afraid of something that my character would be or of something that happened to them happening to me. Like after I wrote Pretty Little Bones and Broken Bird, I would occasionally find myself super paranoid about be stalked or being jumped, and I would like check under my car and stuff to make sure no one was going to jump out and attack me. And with my most recent project, I literally found myself paranoid the other night about being abducted by aliens. It was totally ridiculous.