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The Story

In April 1386, Geoffrey Chaucer sets out from the Maison Dieu in Ospringe, Kent, on the final day of a London to Canterbury pilgrimage. While riding along, he listens to the chatter and the stories of the other pilgrims while silently reviewing sections of a developing poem. As the day progresses, his mind is flooded with images of the ride, the pilgrimage,  his earlier poems and past experiences as he seeks to come to an understanding of the premises by which he has lived his entire life.

The Making of Canterbury Bound 

This journal records my reflections on the process of the crafting of the novel as it evolved  through the stages of planning, writing, editing and polishing. It constitutes an effort to be as conscious as possible of the process whereby the single idea that suggested the topic of the novel was expanded into a complex work of art. Topics range from the nuts and bolts of novel-building to the nature of the novel as an art-form. 

Planning Canterbury Bound 

During the writing of the novel, I kept a hand-written notebook which records the day by day development of the novel 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 novel-form.

The Project 

Together, this novel, journal and notebook comprise the thirteenth installment in an on-going novel-writing project in which I am exploring the concept of form and meaning in the novel, and of the novel as a form of expression in the 21st Century. All of the published journals and notebooks are available for free download at www.johnpassfield.ca. 

Canterbury Bound is available from

AuthorHouse, Amazon, Barnes & Noble and !ndigo