NOVEMBER NOVEL STORY IDEAS STORY IDEA # 3 STUMBLE AND FALL

 NOVEMBER NOVEL STORY IDEAS

STORY IDEA # 3

STUMBLE AND FALL

The poem “Persevere” (1876) by Thomas Dunn English has this verse:

“Failed, you tell me, for all of your striving,
Failed, in spite of your utmost care,
Failed, with indolent people thriving–
Why should it breed in the mind despair?
Although your vanity may be humbled,
Your energy back to its place recall;
Your feet have tripped, you have merely stumbled.
You learn that a stumble is not a fall.”

 Avery Nankin has what most people described as the perfect life. I loving wife, three great kids, and a tenured professor position at a major university; Avery is a pleasant, attractive middle-aged man in good health, with a dog who loves him. Colleagues at his university say Avery is a go-getter, a man on the move, a rising star in his department. At church, he is thought to be a decent, principled man. 

What no one anticipated, not even Avery, was that he was about to stumble. The question to be answered is whether Avery will learn from his mistakes and recover or fall.