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one final point before i got to sleep, several of Harness' comments before posting the extract show that he had no intention of releasing 'How The Monk Go His Habit' as a short story. his comments range from "I should definitely do it one day" to "maybe it'll happen one day".

there was no authorial intent to have this story be released as a short story. and, while these two comments don't add much on their own - with everything else, and the fact that Harness literally called the extract a "discarded first page of a novelisation" it proves that releasing a licensed story was not his intent.

it was a spur of the moment thing when he saw how interested people were in the idea. no planning, no teasing / hype, no licensing.