User blog comment:Lalainee/Sad Movies! T T/@comment-1590625-20110208221426/@comment-1874924-20110209054327

I'm like Sprink, in that (as I have noted elsewhere) I cry far more easily now than when I was younger. When I was a teen, I rarely showed much emotion. That's why my mother likes to say that I was born an adult, and is also why the kids who knew me in high school tended to call me "Spock", after the Star Trek character.

Why do I cry so easily now? I don't really know, but I have a couple of theories. One possibility is that I might have an emerging chemical imbalance. The other theory (possibly related to the first) is that maybe I don't get enough sleep. Chronic sleep deprivation is known to weaken emotional control, which is why the producers of "elimination game" reality shows ranging from Survivor to The Bachelor keep the contestants sleep-deprived. And liquored up. I read somewhere that, on The Bachelor, for example, the producers commonly send out a round of shots whenever group conversations get too un-telegenic.

Sprink, I'm glad to see that I'm not the only pathetic soul who cries at his own writing. Both Legacy and my Izzy chapter in the Fake Souls anthology had scenes that made me cry as I crafted them. I don't think it's giving away too much to say that LTDI will also have some seriously tearjerking moments.