- Dickens borrowed a major plot-line in Tale from his play "Frozen Deep": both Sydney and Richard in "Frozen Deep" are flawed characters seeking retribution who sacrifice themselves so the girl they love can live the rest of her life.
- Also, was smitten with Lucy, so the main girl was named Lucie.
- While he found London vile, disgusting, and full of crime; he also found that he could not write effectively unless his stories involved London or resembled London.
- Fell in love with Paris on first sight.
- Became a public reader as a way of earning more money.
- Novel was published episodically, much like Half-Life 2 Ep. 1 and 2, with the exception that it was actually published timely and efficiently.
- Social critique of the treatment of the lower class by the economic elite.
- Treated his book like a TV episode or like Mass Effect 2. Played each "episode" by ear and did not truncate his novel into sections.
- Felt it was the best story he had ever written at that time.
- Dr. Tony Williams is fairly dry and boring. It's like watching paint dry with 2001 A Space Odyssey playing in the background while feeling my hair grow.
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