lunabee34

I am all about making it all about me you. *grins*

Who is the character? Who? Who? Is it Faith?

I have to say that I've never read anything you've ever written and thought that anyone was OOC, so if you make her cry, baby, you must be doing something right. :)

I don't think I do a lot of making characters cry in fic. I don't think. I'll have to look at what I've written and see because I very well could be doing so and not really realizing.

I'm not so much attracted to the trope as a writer than as a reader and I think I like the crying trope best in a certain kind of story that I am periodically drawn to because I want to wallow in something melodramatic and angsty and I want to just dwell in that feeling.

Let me see if I can describe such a story without sounding condescending and bitchy about it. LOL Usually the kind of story that has the OOC weepiness that I like is an h/c story with both physical and emotional trauma. Often there's an element of misunderstanding or suspense. The character ususally feels isolated or alone and the story is one of coming to belong to someone(s). And frequently, the story is about a solid C or B- in terms of writing, you know what I mean? Nothing too terribly poorly written in terms of mechanics and grammar but nothing I'd rave about in terms of provocative and interesting use of language. In others words, utterly readable but nothing new or clever or whathaveyou. In fact, unlike a lot of fanfic where I'm drawn to the beauty of imagery or turns of phrase, this kind of story grabs me wholly in the emotional realm, speaks to me almost totally there. I have spent a lot of time on Wraithbait reading what I must admit are truly terrible John and Rodney are raped stories and thoroughly enjoying them for that reason.