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Life Just got Interesting
Well folks, once again my apologies, there really has not been anything of interest for me to post on here. However, a few days ago I twisted my ankle, causing me to walk with a cane for a few days, and I came down with a dreadful cold in the same day. So I’ve been stuck doing nothing for the last few days, but tonight I’m starting to feel better. Last week was a killer as it was the end of the quarter. I’m almost entirely sure I ended with a college GPA of 4.0, but this does not include my non 100s level class which would probably bring me down to a 3.6. But that doesn’t count to my college GPA.
In other news, I ended up watching the twilight film. Not so much because I’m interested in the story, but because it’s set in forks. I live in Sequim which is not too far from Forks. It was the coolest thing to have people talking about the Olympic Peninsula in a real movie. The funny thing was that if forks was really how they represented it in the movie, then everyone would want to live there! Heck I would want to live there. I’m not saying that if there were vampires and such, just the visual aspect of the town, and the people. Understand I’m not saying that forks is bad, I’m just saying that if any town were as cool as they made it out to be in the movie, then everyone would live there.
After watching the film I became increasingly interested about the author. As I am an aspiring author myself, I wanted to know how she got her foot in the door. After reading Stephanie Meyer’s bio on how she wrote her first book and got it published, I was instantly inspired. This best selling book, now turned into a movie, was turned down eleven times! Even J.K. Rowling was turned down several times. So really I came to the decision that anyone can get their book published as long as they just keep sending it to different agents.
This sudden surge of inspiration has given me a great deal of motivation to start working on a book that I have been rolling around in my head for what feels like months now. So tonight I started to outline the plot and really figure out what I have in my head. I really love writing books, even though I’ve only written one and it’s only a first draft, it’s still a great deal of fun. You create characters and then you throw what ever obstacles at them you want, then decide how you want them to react. Lots of fun!
In other other news, I’ve finished working on the home page of my new website and I hope to have it online by the end of spring break. There I will be posting updates on my untitled book.
J. Lewis Simmons
Current Affairs
Posted by J.S. Lewis in All, College, Film, Life, Sedition, Writing, preordained on February 7th, 2009
It’s been a long time since I updated my blog because I really haven’t had anything to write about. I’ve just about finished my fourth week of college and currently have a 4.0 which I’m very happy about; however, this could easily slip away if I don’t study for my upcoming math test on Wednesday. Right now I’m taking three classes, all of which I find interesting. My Human Development class is fascinating. We learn about human interaction in the work place. My math class is just as interesting as it always has been. But the best thing I’m taking right now is my Web Authoring class. Programming is perfect and logical in every way. Sadly it’s only twice a week, but it’s still lots of fun.
Starting earlier this week, a friend of mine and I starting working on a few songs. He fiddles away, and I tickle the ivory keys. We’re still sounding rather rusty but in his words, “Perfect practice, makes perfect.” Yeah yeah, i know, millions of people have said it before, but it’s very true.
Now, I regret to turn my thoughts towards filmmaking. I had a movie planned for this years film festival; however, things fell though and I’m not going to be able to make the film “Sedition” which more recently was renamed to “Laws of Anarchy”. The idea was, we were going to put in a prequel called “The Order of Anarchy”, but not all of our plans are meant to pass. By no means does this mean my filming career is over, I plan to return to the melancholy feeling of writing a script, filming with friends, and editing long nights for weeks straight. I wish I could say when, but I have no idea when I shall return to this place of creativity.
In the mean time, I plan on working on my book, which is still untitled. I’ve decided to change a few things around in the beginning. For starters it’s going to be set on the border between Sequim and a world of magic. For those of you who have not heard the synopsis here it is…
Drostan, a twenty-three year old college student, currently living in Sequim, WA, lives a normal life. One day, when trying to inject some sort of fun into is otherwise dull existence, he follows some friends up into some woods where there is said to be ghosts. From there he is sucked, unwillingly into a world of war. Magic is present but not so prevalent. Worried more about his grade and spouse on the other side of the time boundary, Drostan tries to find some possible way to get back to his small town; however it will be a journey that will send him through a war of immeasurable proportion.
A little cliche I know, but I’m working on that, I just haven’t had enough time to work on it. I’m hoping when I get more settled into my college routine, which has been fluctuating day to day for the last four weeks, ugh! I’ll get around to it sooner or later. I still have my previous book (Preordained) I need to rewrite the beginning too, and sum it up in two to three chapters instead of just two pages. I’m hoping to have it completed by summer when I take English 101. This way I could hand it to my teacher for reading.
On the topic of books, I just finished the most amazing audio book series, Star Wars:Legacy of the Force. I’m telling you, the audio book was like a movie, just with out the moving images. Sound effects, Music, actors (well just one guy reading the book, but he was so good you would forget that their were not two dozen different actors playing his own role). If I ever get a massive amount of star wars fans together and about $30,000-$100,000 I would most certainly attempt to make the first movie of this nine book series. It would have to be turned into three movies, and someone would have to do an amazing job of rewriting the books into script format, and then their is the issue of not having the original actors, Harrison Ford, Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher. But these problems could probably be worked around. I would even drop $150,000 to make this film if there were enough people out there willing to make it. It would be a massive undertaking, BUT THE TALE IS JUST SOOOO EPIC!!!!!!!!!!! Everyone, please, I’m begging you, listen to the audio books! Right, I know I’m just going nuts here, but If I found 50 committed people, and I mean committed. I would definitely save up $250,000 to make this film. Sure it would take a long time but if we could pull it off, in a quality fashion. It would be extremely worth it. This is a semi-possible concept, because the job I’m going to be doing when I graduate will pay quite well.
Alright, I’m calming down now. Well, I think I just about summed up what has been going on in the last few weeks, nothing particular save but for college. So, talk to you in another month? Nah, just joking. I think I’ll have some stuff to post on here in the next week or so.
Yours,
J. Lewis Simmons
Chirstmas - High School - College
Posted by J.S. Lewis in All, College, Life, Other on December 21st, 2008
So many things are on the horizon these days, it’s unbelievable. Christmas is just around the corner, I’m going back to school in two weeks, and I’m going to be moving out in a few months.
I’m extremely excited to go back to college and High School. I’ve been out of the educational loop for so long I’m starting to get “absence of school” fever. At the High school I will be taking an advance media class which will be very fun. At the college I will be taking another media class that focuses on programming.
Yours,
Jack
Filmmaking, High School, College
Posted by J.S. Lewis in College, Film, Life on October 10th, 2008
Well, I have been extremely busy for the last month, Spent about two weeks in Tacoma, spent a few days in Vancouver Canada, visited Western Washington University (Which far surpass any other college in Washington, I’ll explain why later) and have had two really great movie ideas flowing through my head one of which actually made it to the page (four pages to be precise).
So a friend of mine called me up about a month ago and gave me his idea for a really great film. At first I kind of shot it down, because I thought it wasn’t really possible, however I started to think about how we could change a few things to make it perfectly plausible. So I quickly wrote three drafts of this five minute film; however, soon we realized that it would cost too much money, and too much money for us is about $125-$200. That budget would have been just fine if I was able to get a job, but sadly, that didn’t happen. So, while I was watching this TV show a few days ago, it gave me this idea (more less it was the complete concept). It’s about this guy who has schizophrenia to such a degree that he is living two completely separate lives.
Here comes the problem with entering a film in the 2009 student film festival of Sequim High School. I currently don’t go there anymore, so I personally don’t qualify to enter a film; however, I still know a few people who go there of which could enter my film, if and only if I keep them thoroughly involved in the filmmaking process.
So, I visited WWU and found that to be the best college in Warshington (as foreigners from Washington pronounce it ha ha.) This is why, the average class has about thirty students. This is amazing in contrast to most colleges where the average class can have about 50-250 students. This really makes it harder, because you will probably never be able to actually speak to the Professor on a regular basses, which is one of the keys to getting A’s. What’s so important about getting A’s you say? Well this is why, everyone goes to college these days, so when you go to apply for a Job your going to be compared to several other college graduates, but if you have an A then your going to be the college graduate that stands out among the other college graduates.
Yours,
Jack
Past-Present-Future
Posted by J.S. Lewis in Life on August 6th, 2008
Hours turn into days, and days to months until we finally reach we finally reach an accumulated wealth of time, equal to that of a year. Within that year, there lies a day that is usually very special to those who share this “special day.” What I would be referring to is my birthday as today is that “special day.” The oddity that has overcome me on this day of days, is the strange feeling that another birthday is nothing than another birthday. I think this rather peculiar feeling has often been reserved for those in ages excess of thirty one, yet there cannot be much comfort is this.
Anyway, I find it nice being eighteen, but I am looking forward to twenty-one with a great deal more glee.
Yours,
Jack