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@kiraelizabeth Ooo, I haven’t thought about that. It’s hard keeping characters consistent, especially if you are writing or editing a book over a long stretch of time. You can forget how your character has acted in past chapters. Not that I have this problem at the moment or anything. 😛

@jenwriter17 True. Don’t want to be hated by readers. XD Realism is definitely desirable. It usually takes a lot of pushing for people to reach intense emotions that lead them to cry, so including crying too often, like in that book you read, is unrealistic.

Though at the same time, we can’t be afraid to write raw emotion in appropriate places. I’m always afraid that once I reach an intense, emotional scene, it will seem melodramatic. But if the scene warrants intense emotion and I don’t write it, readers won’t be happy because they will probably be feeling that emotion themselves and want their emotions reflected in the story.

for example, say the MC’s best friend died. If I’m too afraid to write the MC’s expressions of pain because I don’t want to seem melodramatic, then readers are going to feel cheated because no one mourned over this character they loved.

Unless they hated the MC’s best friend. Which is another problem entirely XD.

Anyway. Random tangent. 😛