During the writing of the novella, I kept a notebook which records the day-by-day development of the novella as it found its shape and style. The notebook – now in print form – reveals how a vast cluster of thoughts was sifted, selected, structured and polished into novella-form.

Planning John and Mother Goose: The Carnival of Tales

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Copies of the notebooks may be downloaded and printed for personal use. The notebooks are copyrighted and are not to be copied for distribution or circulation by any means. Short quotations may be cited for review purposes or as attributed references in other works.