Life: A Novel

C. Shannon Hawke 2012

We are all authors. We are all writing the story of our lives.

From the moment we are born, we become the narrator, a setting is developed and characters are introduced. There is character development and growth, the plot thickens, secondary and tertiary characters are introduced. There are climaxes, twists, surprises. We are writing histories, tragedies, romances, comedies, fantasies. There is a beginning, a whole lot of middle, and inevitably - an end. We are writing a novel that will only be completed with our final breath.

But is that the end? Not necessarily. We live on through those who choose to pick up our dusty covers and take a look at the pages within. Our books will be passed on for future generations. Sure, pages will be ripped out, chapters will be extracted and edited, short summaries will be produced. We all become stories; some become novellas, others encyclopedias.

We are all writing our own story.

So, what comes next in yours?