Short Stories Culminated!

Usually how it happens is, the longer a story is, the more familiar you get with the characters. You start to identify the smaller nuances of the characters, sometimes to the extent that you can even predict how the character will react/respond to a particular scenario. Am guessing that's the secret behind novels. However good or bad the novel be, once you get involved, its difficult to let go till you are through with it.

However, have you ever thought what happens when you left a novel half read and came back to it months later? the few times i've done this, i've lost interest in the book, or have had to start at the beginning. I've made that effort only when the book had an intense draw, something that i could not resist. At most of the other times i've given up on the book. Never got to see or read how the characters or for that matter the story culminated.

Am still trying to put together the novel...My life otherwise has simply been an amalgamation of short stories!
Short & Succinct!