Writing the novel Peelok, The Specter

http://www.Peelok.blogspot.com : http://www.Peelok.blogspot.com Writing the novel

Slide 2 : http://www.Peelok.blogspot.com Background: Thailand The prime writing directive: “I only know for sure all that I know when I can put it in writing.” Subtext: All writing is creative writing.

Slide 3 : http://www.Peelok.blogspot.com The Hawthorne connection: the allegory vs. analogy The Maypole of Merry Mount superstition coming full circle

Slide 4 : http://www.Peelok.blogspot.com Stopped on a street too narrow. The importance of first sentences and first chapters Problem with analogy: The essence of all art is the frame “one starts with contemplating a brush stroke and ends up contemplating the universe.”