We are all books. Never ending novels with twists and turns in our plots. One moment we could be as see through as a pane of glass and the next we could be like lead to Superman's x-ray vision. The difference between one novel and the next could be something as simple as "She turned on the light" and "He turned off the light". Or it could be a more drastic change from "Happily ever after" to "She never found her prince". We could be page turners or documentaries. Fiction or fact. Comedy or drama. Romance or adventure. Eye opening or nap inducing. Some of us might not even be novels. There could be comics, diaries, how-to's, and even some cooking books. The funny thing is that we are the writers of our own stories. We control the main character, the plot, the twists and turns. How we chose to tell our stories is not always how they will be read.
I want my book to be a little of all the above. I want the reader to be able to read between the lines and feel the emotion of the moment they are glancing at. I want my book to be elegant, written in ink by hand. I want it to be bound in leather whose golden title has faded from use. I want there to be a prince who needs me to save him while he is saving me. I want there to be songs and secrets. I want to make the reader gasp as I go skydiving in one chapter and cry as I hold my new baby in another. Most of all I want my book to live on in memory. Past the ink fading and the pages falling out. I want to leave behind a story, a song, a little of myself, and a little of the reader.
Everyone has a different story and everyone will have a different end whether it be an early end or a late one. Some may be lucky and have their books published for the world to read. Their stories may make a change in the world. Some for the better and some for the worse. But everyone should remember why they started writing in the first place, and no one should ever have to look back through their pages and realize that they haven't learned anything from their experiences. A writer should never regret characters and their adventures or the words they have spoken. A writer should never regret their stories.
I want my book to be a little of all the above. I want the reader to be able to read between the lines and feel the emotion of the moment they are glancing at. I want my book to be elegant, written in ink by hand. I want it to be bound in leather whose golden title has faded from use. I want there to be a prince who needs me to save him while he is saving me. I want there to be songs and secrets. I want to make the reader gasp as I go skydiving in one chapter and cry as I hold my new baby in another. Most of all I want my book to live on in memory. Past the ink fading and the pages falling out. I want to leave behind a story, a song, a little of myself, and a little of the reader.
Everyone has a different story and everyone will have a different end whether it be an early end or a late one. Some may be lucky and have their books published for the world to read. Their stories may make a change in the world. Some for the better and some for the worse. But everyone should remember why they started writing in the first place, and no one should ever have to look back through their pages and realize that they haven't learned anything from their experiences. A writer should never regret characters and their adventures or the words they have spoken. A writer should never regret their stories.
