16 Key Tips For Writing Emotional & Sad Scenes (How To Make Readers Cry!)

In any story, having solid emotions is one of the most important factors to creating something amazing. Having emotional scenes can help your readers feel more connected to your characters, and feel the importance of them. Finding ways to create emotion in every scene you write, will help them to be more memorable and authentic. In today's video, I'll be giving you 16 crucial tips on how to write any kind of emotional or sad scene, and how to help your audience experience those emotions to the fullest!
(This is an update of an older video, with new and better tips.)
0:00 Intro
1:06 Tip 1
2:38 Tip 2
4:03 Tip 3
5:01 Tip 4
5:48 Tip 5
7:41 Tip 6
8:52 Tip 7
9:36 Tip 8
10:26 Tip 9
11:30 Tip 10
12:22 Tip 11
13:30 Tip 12
14:40 Tip 13
15:21 Tip 14
16:38 Tip 15
17:15 Tip 16

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[Only_Habibi]

When I write my sad scenes, I myself fall into tears. I imagine the worst possible case that could happen to me, something that would scar me for eternity.

And now, my readers feel that emotion when they read those very scenes. It's painful to put myself in those shoes as I imagine it, but it truly does pay off when, as someone precious once said, "my words reached them". :, )

[bluewolfuxx]

1.create characters your readers care about
A-give your characters a strong goal and a strong reason behind it
B- da ne pecheli vinagi
C - make the character relatable
D-give the character likeability
2. Make the character believable
3. Make strong character connections
4. Create an emotional moment that the readers can relate to
5. Show more than tell
6. Focus on internal conflict
7. Spend extra time on focusing on character's emotions in panels
8. Trick your readers into thinking that something positive is coming
9. Try to show your character's emotions in more creative ways
10. Think of a time you've experienced a similar moment
11. Decide your character's breaking point

[ionpeen]

Currently I’m working on a war plot thing and I currently have two main emotional/sad scenes:

The scene where the female MC realizes that her parents are dead, which is the only reason why she was going on, in hopes of seeing them again as they had to leave when she was young due to government matters

And the scene where the male MC who’s not really opened up to anyone about anything finally let’s it all out in probably the lowest moment in his life, at least at that point of the story

[StarDev]

Great video! An emotional scene I'm planning to write in my comic is derived from the bond between two of my characters.

They met when they were kids but after alot happened they were separated, but their encounter has a momento, a piano song one of them played and told the other to listen and remember.

For some context, they've been traveling together for awhile but don't recognize each other.

For the scene, the one who played back then, plays the same song when they were kids and the memory of that song came back to the other character. They then shared their memory to the character playing and that character froze in shock because they also remember playing for someone and said the exact same thing and he shares this. And at that moment it hit both of them that they knew each other.

I can picture the one who remembered the song to be crying loudly and uncontrollably, releasing all his pent up pain, this breaks the joyful facade he held up throughout the story.

The other one will be completely speechless, not knowing how to react, this moment is one that really impacts him also.

[The_Obsessor_Connoisseur]

I'm currently writing an angst packed book with MAJOR character death, and this is quite helpful for that! Thank you for making this.

[talimediaart]

Hi Midnight! This was a helpful video! I am writing an emotional scene for my character between her and her grandmother. I do have a question: How to do shounen tropes differently? Can you make a video on that? Like deceased parents or losing a parent. In my manga, her parents are alive, just her grandmother dies but would that be the same as losing a parent?

[yann]

What I want to do is a bit complicated since the antagonist and the MC are living the exact same thing

In the past, the antogonist was the leader of a special force squad, the mentor of the MC was part of it and they were send in a suicide mission and all their request was denied, during the mission the whole squad died except the antagonist, he then work as an instructor and in the research to improve the soldier's survivavility but it wasn't enought and he decided to make experiment on human to make super soldier but it was prohibited and was declared as criminal and ran away

A bit before the current evenment, the MC, his friends and his mentor (that actually survived but have cybernetics members and trauma) are volunteers in a experiment to give power to soldiers, that was decided by the government to kill a dangerous criminal but this has to be secret since it is break the law, the dangerous criminal is the previous squad leader so the first emotional scene is him seeing his old friend years after, thinking he was dead, he tries to convinct his friend to join him (he accept and they both fake their death) and the MC think his mentor and the criminal are dead, he get PTSD and all sort of mental problems

In the current evenment, few years after like 2 or 3, the MC learn that the criminal is not dead and is ready to attack, he is just filled with rage and is told to kill the criminal once in for all but he will see that his mentor is not dead, that the criminal he was told to be dangerous was trying to take over the government to make thing better and that they went trought the same things, the MC will get lost, he doesn't have any goals anymore and decided to help the antagonist

I want to make them lives the same things but both have different reactions and I try to make a story were you can't say who's bad and who's good because everyone will have a different thought, some would feel that the MC was right and others the opposite (because I can't stand story with the "good protagonist that want to destroy evil because he is the hero" and the "bad vilain that wan't to destroy everything because he is the vilain")

[destinationeight]

Yooo midnight!! Your vids really helped. Im actually making like a dark isekai light novel and in this scene, the main character comes home after a long war only to find his whole village burned to ash. He looks fir his wife and finds her dead in the temple grounds. You vid made me make it more emotional than i imagined. Thanks

[ssjgarfield]

Another great video, Midnight =D

Some notable emotional and sad scenes in "My Neighbour is a Parasaurolophus" would include:
- Campa finding out that, from her perspective, she ended up millions of years into the future.
- Campa seeing the fossilized remains of her mother on display at the local natural history museum.
- Misaki comforting Campa after she calmed down from grieving about her mother.
- Mira feeling hurt as a kid as local bullies threw a tomato at her for looking weird.
- Mira grieving after her adoptive parents passed away in the 1980's

I'll try to keep these tips in mind for when the next emotional scene in my manga come up.

I also sent you three coffee's at Ko-fi as thanks for being supportive of my manga creations so far ^_^

[prathameshrana]

You have thought of everything thank you so much for this video

[anniefarrell]

Very helpful indeed! I only just started writing a story I had stuck on repeat in my head for weeks... And this helps a lot. Thnks

[Mallaien]

I have a sad story in mind. but I have a real problem organizing my ideas. My story comes from personal experience, but will take place in Japan.

[Gr_YoruToshiro]

You are so underrated. You helped me get a good grade on one of my stories 😭

[danielloosjr]

I normally write cosmic horror but I have decided to write about a character who is longing for the past and wants to return to it but can't however as the story is far different then my normal emotionless stories or at least they don't provoke any emotion in me but I rarely feel emotions so it makes sense I would have trouble with it and as you can see I need to learn punctuation because I don't know it I don't even know where each sentence ends

[azula]

Planning on writing a fanfic 30 chapters just angst, pure angst idk why but here i am

[Rubdawg]

hey do ya think it would be worth it to do a video on timing such as flashbacks, power origins and world intro's or even just in general when writing a manga ?

[ivythealiencat]

There's a scene with my oc and he finds out that his dog dies. Hes been through so much and his dog was his only comfort as a child. He gets bullied at school, he has no dad, and his mom neglects him. Until he met the main charicter he had no friends. So his dog was his closest and only friend. After leaving the hospital bc of a severe concussion he came home to find out that his dog died defending him as he was getting beaten up.

[sumsirongpipi]

I just found your channel and your videos help me so much thank you ❤💞💕

[DotCoconut]

I’m writing a short film where someone losses a best friend but I didn’t know how to accurately get the grief part down. So I was at a roadblock, but a few days ago one of my friends passed away at the age of 17.

[dedeadam]

Do you know what I smell? Mm... Underrated!