I’ve had people sneak up to me in a hotel lobby — away from the walls — and ask me “How do you know this stuff? Some of it’s classified!”
Pff. What writer can’t extrapolate? I ain’t special. As governments are discovering in the face of the internet, if you don’t classify EVERYTHING, you’ve classified NOTHING. And that’s not possible these days either.
The only way for people not to find out things you’d be ashamed of: just don’t do them in the first place! Because the messenger will not be at fault if they blurt on you.
Another neat thing about the internet is that when us Nice People are beating ourselves up over little things we’ve failed to do right, is that we can compare ourselves to those who do much worse — and posted it on YouTube thinking the rest of us actually HAVE those values. It’s the “White People Joke” syndrome, as in the very insulted, “Just because I’m white does NOT mean I think those jokes are funny!”
http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/rommel.htm
Excellent link reference.
We get our information from a myriad of sources. Some of them might be..er…. um… unconventional. *wink nod wink* Who’s to say where some of our ideas come from – the FREAKY part is when you are confronted by people who KNEW the person you’re drawing about and say “How did you know that? There’s no way you could know that- only family and friends knew that!” and technically speaking, there WAS no way you could know that other than a direct feed from the person themselves. WhoooOOOOOooooo *scary fingers*
MOI????