Richard doesn't talk as directly to me as some of the characters, so his motives are often a mystery to me.

ARGH ARGH ARGH DIE PLZ KTHXBI.

They are not PEOPLE, LKH, they are CHARACTERS. You CREATED them. Sure, I've sometime written stories and wondered "What would X character do?", but then I think about the kind of person they are, the things they've done in the past - I work it out, I don't pretend that they're enigmatic to me, THE BLOODY WRITER.