Best way to make a reader cry??

A character hiding an illness(physical or mental) and then collapsing/breaking down and then their family member/significant other/best friend whoever suddenly realizes that the one steady person in their life was in fact not okay

YESSSS NATASHA I LOVE THAT

Hehe….yeah…..clears throat awkwardly

Yo Lavy
I just posted that short story I mentioned (yes it's sad and angsty in the new "short story contest" thread)
so you can read that if you want
I'm really proud of it, and it actually got published so uhhh that's cool and I guess proof that it's good?

(Alrighty! I'll go take a look!)

Hehe….yeah…..clears throat awkwardly

So the reason I put that one down is that I literally broke down crying in front of my sister once and she freaked out. So….yeah….I kinda know it from personal experience.

Kat

Thank you for the depression you gave me
It was so sad
Like It was a perfect description of my life

Wow
I need time to ..
Wow.

Kat

Thank you for the depression you gave me
It was so sad
Like It was a perfect description of my life

Wow
I need time to ..
Wow.

wait
….from my short story?

or from all my angsty prompts here lol

KAT THAT WAS GREAT
You are a talented writer!

Kat

Thank you for the depression you gave me
It was so sad
Like It was a perfect description of my life

Wow
I need time to ..
Wow.

wait
….from my short story?

Mostly from all the sadness. but kinda yes

You are such a good writer, so much talent. I wanna be like you when I grow up.

THANK YOU LAVY
I TRY LOL
that's one of my pieces that I'm most proud of lol
and like
I have all these little bits in it that I'm waiting for people to comment on
my friend zack got one of them- the MC lost their true love to the bus, after explicitly stating they didn't want to lose them bc of the bus again
and like
MC thought it would be bc they would be on the bus but the girl wouldn't
but then
the bus hit her lol
so
yes
I have
so much on that story I'm so proud of

Kat

Thank you for the depression you gave me
It was so sad
Like It was a perfect description of my life

Wow
I need time to ..
Wow.

wait
….from my short story?

Mostly from all the sadness. but kinda yes

You are such a good writer, so much talent. I wanna be like you when I grow up.

awww thank you love
but uh
you should be like you when you grow up because you are fantastic and wonderful just the way you are

YOU KNOW WHAT GETS ME
you have like
this one phrase
and one of your ships says it to each other all the time
and then
at the end, something goes wrong, they break up or one dies
and you use the same phrase but now it has an entirely different meaning

I LOVE THIS
SORRY I KNOW I'M LATE TO THIS BUT
literally something similar to this happens in my story
the death is both a parallel to a previous death
and a direct contradiction to the phrase character A says to character B
it's amazing and horrible

I HAVE IT PLANNED IN MINE AND SAME
I GET WHAT YOU'RE DOING
I LOVE IT

I'm already sad just by reading these prompts.

Something simple that everyone can relate to.
Like, having a pet you lovelovelove, and it dies. Or spending months preparing for something, only to see it not even happen. Yaknow?
Something that almost everyone has gone through is an easy way to cause tears.

Have someone close to the mc die in front of them beyond their control. FOR EXAMPLE, my pure child who is a smol angel boy named Nathaniel (who injured his wings irreparably when he was younger so he can't flyyyy) accidentally wound up in a battle that he wasn't prepared for like, at all. This mean boi was about to kill him, but then awesome big brother Lloyd swoops in like NOPE and kills the mean boi. Then, when he's turned towards nathaniel like "Hey bro u aight?" another mean boi comes up behind him and uh… stabs Lloyd and then runs away. Then nathaniel is sobbing over his brother's dead body and now he has no way to get home bc he can't fly so he's kinda stuck on earth until someone comes to find him.

I literally created lloyd with the intention of him being the older brother who dies. His role in my story was dead older brother. Oh yeah and also Nathaniel's parents kinda blame him for Lloyd's death and sorta resent him a lil bit but like he doesn't get abused or anything. They just kinda don't like him very much anymore… they still keep him alive but now they think his successful older brother's death is his fault.

(suspicious why are you gathering this information? peers at you from over newspaper

Kill the main character's loved one, like the only parent. Or have the best friend be totally innocent and then get kidnapped and turned into a test subject by the government which causes her to attack the main character and forces the main character to defend herself and then have to watch as the friend blows up because she was actually a failed test subject. Then the main character has to act like that didn't happen or she'd be putting herself and her love interest in danger. I'm not crying, you're crying.

Have the world get the better of your character.
Let circumstances slowly beat them down.
Watch them give up. Watch them break; watch them gradually become an empty shell that just doesn't care anymore.
Let them change for the worse; have them do terrible things that they never would have previously done.
Have them fall down and just lie there, no longer having the strength to get back up.
Kill loved ones, but remember that there are things worse than death.
Don't underestimate the impact death can have on your characters and readers, but don't underestimate the impact of life.

Have the world get the better of your character.
Let circumstances slowly beat them down.
Watch them give up. Watch them break; watch them gradually become an empty shell that just doesn't care anymore.
Have them fall down and just lie there, no longer having the strength to get back up.
Kill loved ones, but remember that there are things worse than death.
Don't underestimate the impact death can have on your characters and readers, but don't underestimate the impact of life.

yes

Make the parents of a character get divorced.

It hurts

Have a side character fall in love with the MC, then make the MC blind so he/she doesn't notice the love. (but drop hints that the side character loves the MC) So by the end the side character keeps trying to get the MC's attention and the reader is dying for the two to finally date. BUT near the end have the MC in a battle/street/or something dangerous then have the side character save the MC and all the MC sees before the side character dies is the side character's eyes staring lovingly at him/her for a split second. (for the battle I see someone shoot at the MC but the SC jumped in front, then for the street I see the MC walking across before looking and the SC sees a car and pushes the MC out of the way)

Lol sorry! And I have no clue what Jedi Night is.

Just every time that happens. I want to cry, but I usually only cry when an animal dies.

I have a short story. Does it make y'all wanna cry? (Otis is shy, tbh)

Otis looked around frantically. Just a minute ago, he was walking with his friend Annika in the forest. The next thing he knew, he was alone. He stood perfectly still. A stick cracked. Otis whipped his head around. He didn’t see anything. He cautiously started walking. Slowly, carefully… Just then, he was in front of a clearing. A small one, but still a clearing. He was about to walk into it and sit down on a rock, but just then, two men came up. They were fighting. They made their way into the clearing, where the bigger one shoved the smaller one onto the ground. “I swear, I don’t know where it is!”The bigger one death-glared the smaller one. “Well, if you don’t know where the money is, who does?” The smaller man was frantic. “Irwin, I swear, I don’t know!” “I know that you have it. If you won’t give it ‘ta me, imma have ‘ta…” He slowly pulled out a gun. “No-no Irwin, I’m begging you..NOOOO!” A gunshot fired. The smaller man lay there, dead. The bigger man had a look of slight regret. “I’m sorry I had t do that, brother…” The bigger man, “Irwin”, shut the man’s eyes and ran off, looking in all directions. Otis ducked into a bush.