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E.H. Munro The short answer was that my fiancée talked me into doing something for NaNoWriMo a few years ago. The long version is that it was a 30 year journey t…moreThe short answer was that my fiancée talked me into doing something for NaNoWriMo a few years ago. The long version is that it was a 30 year journey that started in another fictional universe. Namely Nero Wolfe.

I was a huge Rex Stout/Nero Wolfe fan as a teenager. In the mid 80s I encountered the same general ending in a Nero Wolfe novel (Some Buried Caesar). To wit Nero and Archie forced a confession from the murderer who promptly committed suicide. It was in that moment that I realized that there was no real Nero Wolfe and that the detective was his gumshoe assistant, Archie Goodwin. And in those three cases Archie couldn't solve the mystery, so picked the most likely suspect, beat a confession out of them and staged their suicide.

Thus began my journey with the Wolfe pastiche entitled The Suicide Tree. By the time I finished getting through the typed version (back in the medieval times many of us handwrote first drafts in Mead composition books, second draft written on my IBM Selectric III typrewiter {another tool we used in the dark ages} ) that Michael Caine/Ben Kingsley film, Without a Clue had been released.

Given that the writers of that disaster had used the exact same idea (someplace it *absolutely* didn't belong) I tossed The Suicide Tree on the slop pile. I decided that Without a Clue was *so* awful that the well had been poisoned.

For a long time I gave up writing (for reasons that don't bear going in to), but in the 21st century I went back to it. I decided that I was going to rewrite (more or less) Without a Clue and create a better version of that pastiche. But the fact is that the idea itself sucks. I got to the end of it and what I had wasn't worth the electricity I'd used writing it. So I deleted it and went back to my short stories and novellas.

Now we get to the short version, Lisna convinced me to take on the challenge of NaNoWriMo. Only I didn't really write long tales. The only thing I could think of was my old Nero Wolfe tale, so I decided to give it one last go, only the Sherlockian version. But I wasn't going to write an idiotic role reversal, I decided that the real story was about two men that built a myth that outgrew them, and so I set about telling that story. One hundred and fiffty thousand words later I realized that the tale had grown out of control, so I chopped off a pile of it and moved it to a separate book file, and wrote a new ending for the story you can buy on Amazon.(less)

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