I think it a little unfair to brand everyone who gets upset as needing a pair or a thicker skin. If years of playing online games with text chat boxed has taught me anything, it's that text as a medium in a one-line sense can be taken many ways. Perhaps people can be a little thin-skinned from time to time, but usually in my experience, if someone has taken umbrage it's in defence of something they care about.
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Lorn Faulkner Sent: 16 July 2012 01:25 To: feistfans-l Subject: Re: Macros Everyone is offended by something somewhere so it's absurd to qualify every statement you ever make in order to cover your tracks. It was a serious comment and if that upsets people then they need to grow a pair (or thick skin if a pair isn't for you :)) Lorn _____ From: Nat Russo <[email protected]> To: feistfans-l <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, July 15, 2012 6:47 PM Subject: Re: Macros Lorn, It's not the criticism. It's the medium and context. Ray wears big boy pants. I doubt he's gotten this far without criticism, both deserved and undeserved. But when you drop what amounts to a one-liner piece of criticism, there's really nowhere to go with it (if you were a writer, where would you go with "it sounds like you're getting bored with your own material"?) Now, "this is why it sounds, to me, like you're bored with your own material: A. B. C. D. ..." is an entirely different thing. Otherwise, it risks just coming across as a snarky comment rather than something that is well thought out. On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 5:42 PM, Lorn Faulkner <[email protected]> wrote: Ray, You tell me if you get this feeling as well. Do people these days seem to not be able to take criticism as well as individuals our age? It seems the internet age has made so many either 1) sensitive to debate or 2) too sensitive to debate. Everything is taken too damn personal when you don't try your super duper best to word things careful enough. Lorn _____ From: Lorn Faulkner <[email protected]> To: feistfans-l <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, July 15, 2012 5:33 PM Subject: Re: Macros Why is it when someone disagrees with people on the internet they call it trolling. It's an honest evaluation on my part and I still love Ray. It's why I don't even read blogs because it always comes down to screaming or stupid people screaming troll. Lorn _____ From: Nat Russo <[email protected]> To: feistfans-l <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, July 15, 2012 1:04 PM Subject: Re: Macros Trolling takes more skill than that :) #ISeeWhatYouDidThere On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 1:00 PM, Lorn Faulkner <[email protected]> wrote: Ray, I'd love to see you write about something new and different if you aren't into it or planning already. For me, it looks as if you've pretty much gotten bored with Midkemia and writing about it. At least that's how your writing comes across. Lorn _____ From: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> To: feistfans-l <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2012 7:31 PM Subject: Re: Macros Hello everyone! Just off vacation so I'm a little behind on emails, basically turned off my phone to spend the week on the beach! :) Ray, In its own way I consider all the questions (and suggestions for future writings) a complement! You've written such great stories that none of your fans here or else where can bear the thought of you NOT WRITING! Aghast!!! I know it gets tiresome but hopefully you'll consider it a another gold star for a job well done! As always thanks for that first time you picked up a pen and starting writing!!! Shells:) Sent on the SprintR Now Network from my BlackBerryR -----Original Message----- From: Raymond Feist <[email protected]> Sender: [email protected] Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2012 14:04:54 To: feistfans-l<[email protected]> Reply-To: "feistfans-l" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Macros On Jul 9, 2012, at 8:24 AM, Nick Andrews wrote: > What about a bio on Macros from Banath's point of view? > Oh how about you get back to the part where I say I don't like being told what to write? It's pointless, folks. I do what I do, and often if I was to do as you ask, it would be killing all the dramatic balance I used to make the character interesting. It's the whole "ignore the man behind the curtain" thing. I got an e-mail from someone asking why I killed off Admiral Vykor in Rage, and took me to task because he was so interesting. I loved it, because there was NOTHING else I wanted to do with that guy or knew about him, but it meant he was exactly doing what I wanted. That's the art of it, don't you see? Best, R.E.F. ---- www.crydee.com <http://www.crydee.com/> Never attribute to malice what can satisfactorily be explained away by stupidity. -- Sent from my Crappy Laptop (tm) using a poor excuse for a web browser. -- Sent from my Crappy Laptop (tm) using a poor excuse for a web browser.
