#sad characters

[chryseiswriting-blog]

[zisgarbage]

My intense love for kinda jaded, bitchy characters who’d rather take the hurt to protect the people they care about even if they did nothing to deserve it

[angsty-mcwhump]

This was the song that played when Malcolm saved his family from John Watkins and he, Jessica and AInsley had a family group hug and MY GOD you could just feel the heavy and exhausted emotions exploding in that scene. MY HEART. Poor Malcolm. I cannot wait to watch this show. 

[vesvosmozhno]

I'm of the controversial opinion that not every story should have a happy ending. Sometimes, the people they're trying the hardest to save die anyways. Sometimes, the most depressed character can't learn how to be happy. Sometimes, no matter how much they learn and heal, a villain is still a villain. Sometimes there's nothing left but a sad, hollow character to find a sad, tragic ending. Sometimes life just doesn't care what you've gone through to get your happy ending. Sometimes it slips through your fingers anyways.

So that's why very few of my stories have happy endings. Someone has to tell the stories that ended in tears, bloodshed and hopelessness.

[yarelithebookhuntr-blog]

For All My Little Book Munchkins That Are Forgotten

For All My Little Book Munchkins That Are Forgotten

We all love protagonists with their fancy titles, killer abilities (seriously, killer abilities…get it? Okay never mind), intriguing adventures, and the ability to save the world from every dragon and tool that manages to look the wrong way. (Now do you get it? 😂) But haven’t we all tired of their unnatural good luck once in a while? They are always the ones that live. I am by no way saying that…

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[wordbookstores]

Hi there. I'm in the mood for sad books and sad characters a la "the bell jar". Can you tell me any books like that? Not too particular about whether the endings are happy or not. Surreal or hyper realistic, anything really :-) thank you.

How do we pick?? We polled our staff for the saddest book they could think of, here are the (sure to be an existential bummer) results:

Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace

Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert

Valley of the Dolls, Jacqueline Susann

Great Expectations, Charles Dickens

The Sterile Cuckoo, John Nichols

A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing, Eimear McBride

Tigerman, Nick Harkaway

The Stranger, Camus

The Love Song of Johnny Valentine, Teddy Wayne

The Casual Vacancy, J.K. Rowling

Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Edward Albee

It Never Happened Again, Sam Alden

Last Words from Montmartre, Qiu Miaojin

The Farming of Bones, Edwidge Danticat

[cuddlemeash]

If you didn't cry reading Allegiant I don't want to associate with you because that was fucking sad and it hurt.

[hollowphobia-casual]

Advice: How to make truely gripping sad moments.

Show your characters being characters first, there's no point in showing us a character who is always sad or emotionally destroyed and expect us to feel bad for them, because we do not know this character outside this mind frame. The best way to craft a emotional attachment to a character is to show a time when they were happy, where they weren't always sad, this gives a strong contrast to how they are now, or what they have become, cause it shows us how much what they have lost affects them.