I can honestly say that I wrote my first fictional novel while I was in grade 12, and in fact submitted it to my English teacher Mr. Peter Johnson for a significant part of my grade…and if I recall my auntie Gina helped me edit it – that was 1986. The work was untitled or had a number of working titles…I was 18…titles and girls were a bit illusive to me – sigh. It was a piece of work born from the influences of Star Wars, Ninjas and Bruce Lee…you can only imagine – not very imaginative. Trade light sabers for swords, the evil empire for ninjas and the hero basically Bruce incarnate, OMG LOL! Sadly though it was also the last novel I ever wrote. I was asked this past Easter weekend while sitting around the dinner table with our friends, our children playing and laughing the background, what I would I chose to do with my life if the opportunity afforded it. My answer was quick and to the point – I would write…fiction or non-fiction, whatever the inspiration and purpose. The answer was easy because only a few weeks earlier I had made the decision to do exactly that…hence the birth of this blog…but also the realization that this is my life and I need to be better at owning it, and what it produces. What I mean by that is simply that life affords us no less than what we need, and more times than not what we ask for, and never more than we deserve…but always what we make of it. Every day is a thousand choices that we make with consequence…I am choosing to make the choices knowingly and with purpose…and having a little faith doesn’t hurt either. So I am going to write and tell stories and maybe, just maybe one day soon, a second novel will be written…although I can’t promise it won’t be heavily influenced by Star Wars, ninjas and Bruce Lee, ha!
Photo taken in Hong Kong on our first trip to China (2006)
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Lawrence Lewis
- “If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of.” – Bruce Lee
About Lawrence Lewis
I do a number of things professionally...but most of all and the true purpose of what I do through "my work" is to provide for my family, be a good husband and great father, and try to make a difference as a world citizen...I guess it's not much more complicated than that 🙂