Empathy . . .

..is not sympathy, it is about understanding from another's perspective - yes? Or, to quote an Oxford Dictionary: understand and share the feeling of another. Which is exactly what a writer needs to do - to get the reader to understand a character, even if the reader and character have little in common. But is the job getting harder for writers? There is an article doing the rounds on FB by Carolyn Hax - Tell Me About It. Go ahead and give it a scan, and come back...because the point of bring...