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