Yes, I had written an essay about children's expectations from parents (something that sort) and the student gave me the review that his professor personally complimented for the essay and said this was a heart touching writing and could learn a lot what you kids think.
I'm somewhat easily touched by some movies/tv shows. I can't say I've cried over books (probably because I don't read much), but I have gone to tears with an excerpt I wrote for another story when I killed one of my characters. As for other people, that excerpt is probably the only emotional scene I've written, and no one has read it...yet.
I'm known to cry during commercials! I blub over movies and novels with an ease that astonishes me. I have a theory that's its a kind of subconscious release - I'm otherwise very locked down and guarded. I will never watch the color purple with anyone else - the amount of tears and snot produced during the reunion scene is just. . . . mortifying. I made someone cry with a poem in a writing class once. I was about my mum.
Yes. Most notably myself. The last thing I wrote is 104K words. Aside from a general theme and idea, I had no idea where I was going as I went forward. The book pretty much wrote itself. As I wrote, my characters got to know me - rather than the other way around. They led me through the blank pages in front of me, revealing their paths and surprising me at every nearly every turn with their courage, resilience and trust. Surprise led to pride, not unlike a parent for their children, and I wrote through freefalling tears many times. One hundredteen edits later, I still can't read certain passages aloud.
Cry? No. My skill is not that deep yet nor have I written a long enough work. Laugh? Yes, I've managed that before. It's a start. Have I read a work that made me cry? Most certainly. The longer the book (IE, series are the best) the more you become invested in the characters and the more likely you get emotional when something happens to them. The Light Between Oceans by M.L. Stedman made me tear up. And I'm a guy. My fiancé read it and was reduced to, quote her, "Ugly crying" haha.
You don't need length for tears archer. I managed it in about 500 words, once. Human experience reaches to the soul sometimes, and pulling from your hardships elicits emotions you didn't realize were there.
I've only ever nearly cried from a book, that was Memories of Ice. I felt a little heartless though that what I was reading didn't push me that far, but it was the closest I've gotten. As far as my own writing goes, it's never made anyone cry. Not to my knowledge. Maybe it was so bad I was pitied, who knows.
