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 Sprint® Now Network from my BlackBerry® >> >>-----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 >> >>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.
