This story begins in the 1990s - college times, in fact - during and after a fiction writing class taught by my first Twitter follower. The subject of my story for class, read but understandably not much liked by anyone, was yachting (or rather in my case, rafting). The one person who got that the story was true, and should be written as non-fiction, was someone that most of you will know. Both of us would go on to become writers, but not the kind related to the class.