I’ve been doing a bit of social engineering lately, dear reader…you know, just for fun and profit.  And I’ve got to say I’m a bit surprised with its efficacy.  I used to do a lot more of this, but for some reason I fell out of practice.  But it does work.  You know what doesn’t work?  Walking in the front door and asking for something, a job, a date, whatever.  It’s as if you were playing chess, and your strategy was simply to ask your opponent for his queen, please: the only thing he’s going to give you is a middle finger.  If you want a job, create a crisis or some kind of dire need, and then suddenly make yourself known as a ready solution.  Don’t ask anybody on a date…just make the idea of a life without you seem so repellently boring as to be unacceptable, and the rest is inevitable.

Ain’t no social engineering in writing, though, dear reader, as I know I don’t have to tell you.  For we are the People of the Pen, and we have an endless supply of bitter ink.  Right?  Right.  Write.

N.P.: “Would?” – Opeth

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