From: Raymond E. Feist
Date: 08 August 2009
Again, I have no emotional investment in characters. None of them were a problem to write or made me feel anything. It's a drama. These are characters. They have a function.
I think one of the problems is that writing and reading, while related, are entirely different tasks with entirely different expectations. I never think "have I gone too far," because that gets into worrying about how any given reader might react, and at that point I've lost control of the process. As I have said on more than one occasion, what one reader hates, another
loves, etc.
Best, R.E.F.
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