The Importance of Fun in Writing

The first draft of Hollow City was basically an author having fun screwing around with reality. I tried a Sherlock Holmesian sort of outline for the bonus story of Emperor Pius Day. And that's the one where I threw out 80% of my work and only kept the fun moments. We're never going to get Thrill 22 of these things. No, we aren't. That is an event story according to the Mice Quotient. It is.