Write, Wrote, Written discussion

Not sure if this is the right location for this topic but I'm curious to get other authors input on the topic. Specifically about getting emotionally invested in a particular scene(s) in your project.

It makes sense to me to be emotional about a subject that you have personally experienced but I've found myself getting blurry eyed or angry writing about events I have never experienced. To me this is a good thing because it allows me to transfer that feeling into words with the intent of having the same emotions felt by the reader but wonder if I'm just odd or if this is normal for most writers.

Is your experience as a writer similar?

Sure. Emotion is the currency --the medium of exchange --of fiction writers. If you don't feel something about what you write, why expect a reader to? The whole point is to make them feel what you feel.

Studies have shown for a long time that the human nervous system can't tell the difference between imagination and actual experience.

I write from emotion. I write from the POV of a character and use his emotions to tell the story.

When I write fiction, I usually write about my experiences, but replace the real people with similar characters. As a result, when I write about something I feel strongly about, I do find my face red with anger or my cheeks streaked with tears.

When I do RPS, there's always emotion scenes, but when I write my own stories, I can't get it to fit.

I once was writing at the table, across from the Hub. He asked, "Are you mad at me about something?"
I, shocked because I was just writing, had to think about why he'd ask. He was really worried. It finally dawned on me, I was writing a scene where my character was in a really bad mood. We still laugh about it.

I sometimes wonder where stuff comes from when it comes out in words as I type. My characters experience and feel things that I never have. It's really cool, actually.

I get emotionally involved in a lot of the scenes I write. I become teary-eyed with grief, flushed with indignation, giddy with joy, all over experiences that are happening not to me but to my character. I only hope any readers experience the same thing when they get to these scenes.

Morgan wrote: "I get emotionally involved in a lot of the scenes I write. I become teary-eyed grief, flushed with indignation, giddy with joy, all over experiences that are happening not to me but to my character..."

Isn't that truth?

feeling what you want your character allows to put more depth into the story and it can help with future scenes such as if one of your characters bullied another or a character made another character happy you can then call on that emotion to figure out how your character might react to something another character does

I have written so many sad parts it's not funny....this is the first death scene where I was bawling as I wrote it:https://www.goodreads.com/story/show/...
There's a scene at the end where I cried too, but it's not posted yet because the whole story isn't finished.