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Our Inspiration
By Breakfield and Burkey
Outside
events inspire and impact each of us differently. Perhaps that is how we
effectively bring both gender viewpoints into our stories. Our readers and
listeners are an even mix of genders and a broad age range of adults. We take
actual events from our personal and professional experiences and interweave them
into our stories. For the series, it is why we begin with a technology challenge
to solve and then layer on travel, relationships, cybercriminals, intrigue, and
splashes of humor. To a degree, these stories are like life, only more fun.
Sunsets and
sunrises are appreciated by us both, yet our reactions and comments are different.
We like to travel with our respective families and for business. We have
traveled to many cities and multiple continents. We discovered each of us take photos
of the morning's rising splendor or the vibrant blaze of the evening before the
sun winks out. Color variations from the clouds, temperature, geolocation, and
time of year make each event unique and memorable. Often, we take those colors
to paint a scene. You might find a photo in our workspace of a riotous sunset
to help launch our writing into overdrive.
Children's
laughter is another element we each deal with differently. Breakfield finds it cute and funny when a child laughs with
delight. Burkey cracks up, frequently unable to contain herself for several
minutes. Just so you know, crying, kicking, and fussing children inspire us to
seek shelter from the storm or, if appropriate, try to calm them. Both of us have
our respective grown children, who, in our minds, are much better behaved than most
of the youngsters we see during travel today. Yes, we box the ears of our
characters, the adult ones, the cyber thugs, or darknet actors in our
TechnoThriller series. It is funny how misbehaving children we've observed are
woven into our evil geniuses.
Breakfield
is particularly fond of motorcycles, especially those with a Harley emblem. He enjoys
long rides, exploring the winding country roads with no speed limit, so he can
make up his own. Several of his more outrageous motorcycle excursions inspired
a portion of The Enigma Factor. Our two primary characters, Petra and Jacob,
have a date on the backroads of Long Island. Burkey is fonder of driving cars fast. She knows
several officers on a first-name basis. Her first new car purchase, like ever, was
a luxury, smart-car. The capabilities of this vehicle were used for an outrageous,
plausible event in The Enigma Wraith. Sometimes we save these inspirations for
other stories, or they occur in the right place or at the right time for a story
gap.
Travel encourages
lots of ideas. Breakfield and Burkey enjoy trips for work and pleasure with our
respective families. Breakfield does most of his two-wheel riding across Texas
with the small towns, beautiful historic state parks, outstanding wineries, and
miles of two-lane roads. Our respective work trips have crossed multiple
continents with cities many people only read about.
Istanbul's
beauty, people, and rich history are used in The Enigma Dragon as a backdrop for
some dodgy people. London is another target in that story with details of
streets experienced and visited. Our fondness of the sights, sounds, people, and
activities will eventually make it into one or more fictional tales.
People we
know are often incorporated into characters. For example, Breakfield's Galway,
Ireland buddy became a target our cyber good guys of the R-Group helped in The
Enigma Wraith. John C. helped review the contents and terms of the draft copy.
He laughed at the voice characterization he received in the audible format by
our voice actor, Derek Shoales, but John enjoyed listening to this story. One
of Breakfield's technical counterparts made it into The Enigma Source. Even though he was cast as working for the
bad guys, we didn't have the heart to whack him in the story.
People are the best inspiration for Breakfield and Burkey, but you'll need to discover that when you read our series. Stay on the lookout for the bank robber and alleged wife murderer who Breakfield knew. It is chilling to have FBI agents question why you were trying to sell financial investments to a bank robber looking to invest or real estate to someone laundering his drug money. Hey, Breakfield didn't know what they did for a living, but thankfully, those two are incarcerated today. As the title of this article states, inspiration comes from the most unlikely places.
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