One of the more unfortunate things about My Marmoset Is All I Have To Give is that I thought when I started writing it that a marmoset was a weasel-like creature, and only realised that it was a type of monkey halfway through chapter fifty-seven. Because of this, the major plot twist that my readers loved so much (that the stoat Edward Elric gave to his brother Alphonse as a peace offering was actually a monkey in disguise, in case you've forgotten - I hope I haven't spoiled anyone reading this, but seriously, it's by far my most famous work and I'll be very surprised if anyone here hasn't read it) was actually completely accidental.
I think that my innovation of having every third chapter be a ten-thousand-word description of a different type of metal was a stroke of genius, if I may say so myself. One thing that I was rather shocked by was the fact that very few readers picked up on the morse code. Every time 'marmoset' was mentioned in lowercase in the description it corresponded with a dot, 'MARMOSET' was a dash, and by the end of every metal-describing chapter a letter would have been spelt out. Unfortunately I couldn't come up with enough metals to spell out 'IT WAS THE MARMOSET IN THE PANTRY WITH THE CARVING KNIFE', so I ended up having to use Dalekanium and Mithril. I don't think anyone noticed, though.
The particularly unfortunate thing about so few people picking up on the blatant morse code was that most of my readers believed that the narrated solution to the mystery - that Sherlock Holmes had brutally murdered Flax with a poisoned monocle - was the true solution, when in fact, were they only slightly more observant, they would have realised that it was the monkey all along.
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I think that my innovation of having every third chapter be a ten-thousand-word description of a different type of metal was a stroke of genius, if I may say so myself. One thing that I was rather shocked by was the fact that very few readers picked up on the morse code. Every time 'marmoset' was mentioned in lowercase in the description it corresponded with a dot, 'MARMOSET' was a dash, and by the end of every metal-describing chapter a letter would have been spelt out. Unfortunately I couldn't come up with enough metals to spell out 'IT WAS THE MARMOSET IN THE PANTRY WITH THE CARVING KNIFE', so I ended up having to use Dalekanium and Mithril. I don't think anyone noticed, though.
The particularly unfortunate thing about so few people picking up on the blatant morse code was that most of my readers believed that the narrated solution to the mystery - that Sherlock Holmes had brutally murdered Flax with a poisoned monocle - was the true solution, when in fact, were they only slightly more observant, they would have realised that it was the monkey all along.