You Just Never Know
May 3, 2002
7:26 a.m.
Another day, another 1,000 words.   I've been reading non-fiction lately. More stuff about espionage in World War II. I don't know why, but I've always found the whole spy thing to be fascinating. Sometimes I think it's the ethical dilemma that intrigues me about spies (or even better double agents), and sometimes I think it's the element of cold calculation and patience that intrigues me. Other times I suppose it's the romantic James Bond-y thing--and here I don't really mean romantic in the physical sense, but rather in the sense that I used to think working on military avionics was romantic and racy in the engineering sense whereas now I just work on engines, IT infrastructure, and business processes. I know that when I've used espionage or special forces type operations in a couple of my stories, it's never been hard to make plots twist in interesting ways. I mean, there is always something that can go wrong on a covert mission, right? I don't think I would make a very good spy. I'm too curious. I deal fine with politics in small doses, but I don't really have enough patience to lie in waiting for a majority of the time like I see real life spies often do. This is another reason I would be a bad hunter (I mean, beyond the fact that I don't really like guns and can't imagine shooting a deer or whatever--no judgment here of those who do ... just saying that this isn't my bag, you know?). The idea of sitting all day behind a blind to see if a deer walks by does not make me get all excited. Well. Hmmm... How the heck did I get off onto that, eh? Daily Persistence: You just never know. Have a great day.  Daily Persistence is © Ron Collins |
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