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Drama: June 10, 2015 Issue [#7022]

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 This week: Weepy Writing
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Weepy Writing


Sadness as a plot driver.


Are Tears and Crying Needed in Drama?


For the most part, I think of dramatic plots to be mainly sad or tragic. Somebody has to get hurt for drama to happen. This can lead to a weepy story in which there is too much crying. Yes, a character can be brought to his or her end of the rope and be reduced to tears. There might even be that one character that cries more often than others. But, is all that crying balanced in your story? Is there another character who never cries? Does the crying character end up coming out of the sadness stronger and ready to fight?

To keep your reader engaged, remember that they will take only so much abuse via reading about how sad the main character is. There has to be hope, light, laughter, and in the end victory for the drama to come full circle. Think of the roles for women in many stories. They suffer, they get hurt, or they die.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle used the death of a young woman as the driving plot point in his Sherlock Holmes novel "A Study In Scarlet." Until the end of his life, the man who loved her lives in misery until a few days before his own demise, he can finally bring justice to those who killed her. The novel works on the whole because the parts with Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson are fun to read and this novel introduces Sherlock Holmes as a character. The parts when the young woman and her lover have to go through the hardship that ultimately leads to Sherlock Holmes's case is tedious to read. My kids kept asking me (when I read it to them), "When are we going to read about Sherlock again?"

What I learned from reading that novel is to make sure to tell my story, but also to give my reader some hope along the way and not stay with the parts that are sad and weepy too long.



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