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The Story

A twenty-something would-be writer, John Passfield, spends his last few months as a garbage-collector on the streets of his home town, St. Thomas, Ontario, Canada, in the summer of Canada’s Centennial year, 1967. As he works, he compares the imagery of his own life so far - and of his upcoming marriage and pending career as a high school teacher - to the imagery of the great books that he is reading, all the while in pursuit of building the perfect load of garbage.

The Making of Saturday Morning

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 Saturday Morning

During the writing of the novel, the author 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 twenty-sisthinstallment in an on-going novel-writing project in which the author is 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.