Der_Parvenu_Meister

Out of the short string of novels that I'm working on, only about one or two can ever really make me sad or laugh quite hard, any one else have that with something they're working on?

Edgewise

I don't think it matters how emotional your work makes you. It's how much emotion you put into your work. The rest will follow.

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Truth-Teller

Another beautiful quote.

Thank you, edgewise, for your profound wisdom.

ClancyBoy

Pithy. I have one.

When you can balance a tack hammer on your head, you can head off your foes with a balanced attack.

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lin

And that is just as true today.

If you think about it, it doesn't really matter what you are feeling as you write, only the feelings that the work evokes. Just as you can't charge more for a car because you put hundreds of hours of work into it. What you have to sell is what is sitting there and the way other people react to it.

Personally, I have a certain amount of reaction to my work. I get choked up sometimes. It's embarrassing to be telling somebody about some plot element and suddenly hear your voice change.

But the big emotion I get from my own work is laughing. I swear, I really crack me up sometimes. Unfortunately not everybody appreciates the same sort of funny I do.

Snotty Bennington girls in their twenties who guard the desks of publishers from anything getting in that isn't chick lit or judaica or whatever shit they can brag to their friends about reading don't seem to share my simple pleasures. The little bitches. They'll be sorry. THEN we'll see who laughs.

Mystery

Because you're gonna rise the great lord C'thullu right?

My writing usually stirs my emotions a lot, but since im the writers not as much as others because I can always change things, I can always make a happy ending, I already know the sad twists, etc etc.

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biggles

It's only other people's work that stirs my emotions, if I like it. A good poem can choke me up on the spot. It's like listening to a wonderful piece of music or viewing a painting you really like. Even if I liked something I wrote it wouldn't stir my emotions because it's difficult to share something with yourself. The beauty is in relating to something someone else has done as far as I'm concerned.

Rob

I agree with Lin. It's the emotion your work evokes. Your reader's emotion. What does your reader feel? What do you want your reader to feel when you write?

Cheers,
Rob

schoolmarm1895

To evoke emotion in a story must one actually spell it out for the reader, or can it simply happen? I read quite a lot, but I can't remember if the author just describes the sensations and I am moved by it or has he actually put the terror (for example) into the character's personality?

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HarryG

I agree with Lin and Rob. When I finished my first big one, only roughly edited, 100K words long, on several hundred sheets of double-spaced paper, written over a six-month period in a hidden-away, lonely, tiny bungalow, with only two dogs for company, I read through it in its entirety for the first time – and, my voice didn’t just change, I cried my fucking eyes out. And that was in Essex!

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Harry's mad, I tell you, mad!