Writing emotional sounds

[EnderofWorlds]

This seems to be the right thread for this: How would you write something like someone crying in despair? I mean the sound they'd make. Laughter is easy with 'ha-ha" and such; but I have a lot of trouble trying to write someone mournfully crying in despair.

Suggestions?

 

[Biigoh]

I don't think there's an easy way to do so... people cry differently...

 

[Hymn of Ragnarok]

Uh-huh-huh-huh comes to mind, but bii's got the right of it.

 

[Selias]

Uhh... "Boo-hoo?" "Waaaahhhh?" Maybe *sob*?

 

[EnderofWorlds]

I don't think there's an easy way to do so... people cry differently...

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I know; but it's just annoying having the sound in your head but not knowing how to put it down using letters.

Uh-huh-huh-huh comes to mind, but bii's got the right of it.

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Closest sound for the aftermath of the cry; thanks.

Uhh... "Boo-hoo?" "Waaaahhhh?" Maybe *sob*?

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All entered my head and were immediately discarded for looking to 'silly' if that makes sense.

 

[nick012000]

Don't write the onomatopoeia; just describe the heart-wrenching sound of their sobbing, how they're hunched over, the trails of smeared mascara leaving trails down their face, et cetera.

 

[EnderofWorlds]

Don't write the onomatopoeia; just describe the heart-wrenching sound of their sobbing, how they're hunched over, the trails of smeared mascara leaving trails down their face, et cetera.

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I wrote both; both the cry and what it was like, I really needed the actual sound being uttered in the narrative to get the scene down the way I wanted to.

 

[Hymn of Ragnarok]

Closest sound for the aftermath of the cry; thanks.

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Yeah, although if I level a criticism, it feels like Chifuyu reaches 'aftermath' a little too quickly. You had a pretty good sound to Chifuyu screaming her lungs out, I just feel like there should have been a since or paragraph describing time passing, give a sense of her crying herself hoarse and now all she's capable of are little choked sobs.

 

[EnderofWorlds]

Yeah, although if I level a criticism, it feels like Chifuyu reaches 'aftermath' a little too quickly. You had a pretty good sound to Chifuyu screaming her lungs out, I just feel like there should have been a since or paragraph describing time passing, give a sense of her crying herself hoarse and now all she's capable of are little choked sobs.

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Yeah, I'll probably fix that; move the second bit further down. Thanks.

 

[Hymn of Ragnarok]

My pleasure.

 

[Selias]

Closest sound for the aftermath of the cry; thanks.

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Really? I thought that it sounded like idiotic chuckling.

 

[Hymn of Ragnarok]

Really? I thought that it sounded like idiotic chuckling.

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It all depends on the tone. I've heard crying that sounded like that.