Cried alot like almost everyday during my bad years. Glad I'm past that. Nowadays I never cry and life's been smooth sailing now.
Stories do make me tear up; I wouldn't call it crying. But if we're counting those than last time I cried would be jan?
I don't know how exactly you're going about it but fantasy play as your character should make you sympathize with them as you'd pity them, which should be cathartic, which would feel good.
First of all, it might be overheating; do you perchance keep your laptop on your bed? If your laptop (hard drive to be specific) gets too hot, it can cause disk failure; hence your word app automatically closing and sometimes corrupting (because your whole drive gets disconnected). Word is a...