destrekor
Lifer
- Nov 18, 2005
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I have a dream of achieving four dreams in my life, and yes all in the same life. I'll feel accomplished at that point. And that I contributed to the well being of the lives around me.
1 - Serve as active duty officer, for at least 4 years but I'd rather 20+. Let's say retire after 22 years. I'd be around 44 years old. Should be in great shape, at least I'd make sure I was. Hopefully I maintain a complete body during those years. Else I was not successful in my overall mission.
2 - After military, either when I'm 26 or 44, I'd like to be a firefighter or some sort of law enforcement (SWAT/SRT, city police, fed's.. or maybe head into government). Not sure so yet as to my real hopes of government. My Security & Intelligence major is gearing me toward terrorism/intelligence government agency careers, but I don't know if I want that at this point in my life. Thankfully I got one thing to do first. Regardless, civil service is a must unless I'm worn out and ready to fully retire following a lengthy military career.
3 - I have to write at least one movie. It's just what I want. I am fascinated with the idea of at least one of my story ideas making it to film, as it's the ultimate story telling format in our culture. I love visuals to a story anyhow, because that's how my mind works. I am very visually orientated as I have a photographic memory. Very photographic to be honest. I may very well be battling ADD so it has been out of film for the longest while, but it's been improving with my new routines. Got to the point I could read sections from a book to determine an answer to a question. Regardless, I have a series of stories I want told, and I'd love to actually have them in all formats: graphic novels, novels, movies. Ultimately it would likely be a quadrilogy if it were successful, of which I'd be determined enough to make it be. I'm confident in my skills to conceptualize material, graphic novel being probably the one I could do best. You can do anything so easily in graphic novels. I confident in my story skills, but my actual novel-writing ability may not be publishable. I don't know, I'm not terribly sure if I am skilled or not in regards to writing the kind of detail necessary for a novel. Although in the end, I would not care about a book being panned for its authorship but end up being a best seller because of its story and ability to be picked up so easily by many (referencing Dan Brown). I'd actually be very happy with that outcome, because that meant I created an amazing story, which is what I want to be recognized for. I believe the story I have been working through different details of (all of the multiple parts of the series, the different times of one lengthy story arc) literally for the past 2 or 3 years now. I just need to get the motivation, and time, to begin working on some form of it. I don't know if I want to skip all the formats besides the movie script (I would love - at the very least - to have a helping hang in the on-screen scene construction, as that's ultimately where so much of the story will be told in quite a few formats, and I would rather present it in some art form then describe it. Because for those without mental imaging capabilities when reading a novel... they wouldn't be able to get the full understanding of the scene. I guess this ultimately contributes to the upkeep of art as a freedom of expression?
I think I just need to get in contact with somebody, I just have no clue how I exactly go about that process. If I can be monetarily motivated by some hollywood exec stating my idea could see screentime if I fleshed it out into a script, well then by golly I think I'll devote some time to writing that script instead of browsing this site. lmao I could get quite a bit written if that were the case. :laugh:
1 - Serve as active duty officer, for at least 4 years but I'd rather 20+. Let's say retire after 22 years. I'd be around 44 years old. Should be in great shape, at least I'd make sure I was. Hopefully I maintain a complete body during those years. Else I was not successful in my overall mission.
2 - After military, either when I'm 26 or 44, I'd like to be a firefighter or some sort of law enforcement (SWAT/SRT, city police, fed's.. or maybe head into government). Not sure so yet as to my real hopes of government. My Security & Intelligence major is gearing me toward terrorism/intelligence government agency careers, but I don't know if I want that at this point in my life. Thankfully I got one thing to do first. Regardless, civil service is a must unless I'm worn out and ready to fully retire following a lengthy military career.
3 - I have to write at least one movie. It's just what I want. I am fascinated with the idea of at least one of my story ideas making it to film, as it's the ultimate story telling format in our culture. I love visuals to a story anyhow, because that's how my mind works. I am very visually orientated as I have a photographic memory. Very photographic to be honest. I may very well be battling ADD so it has been out of film for the longest while, but it's been improving with my new routines. Got to the point I could read sections from a book to determine an answer to a question. Regardless, I have a series of stories I want told, and I'd love to actually have them in all formats: graphic novels, novels, movies. Ultimately it would likely be a quadrilogy if it were successful, of which I'd be determined enough to make it be. I'm confident in my skills to conceptualize material, graphic novel being probably the one I could do best. You can do anything so easily in graphic novels. I confident in my story skills, but my actual novel-writing ability may not be publishable. I don't know, I'm not terribly sure if I am skilled or not in regards to writing the kind of detail necessary for a novel. Although in the end, I would not care about a book being panned for its authorship but end up being a best seller because of its story and ability to be picked up so easily by many (referencing Dan Brown). I'd actually be very happy with that outcome, because that meant I created an amazing story, which is what I want to be recognized for. I believe the story I have been working through different details of (all of the multiple parts of the series, the different times of one lengthy story arc) literally for the past 2 or 3 years now. I just need to get the motivation, and time, to begin working on some form of it. I don't know if I want to skip all the formats besides the movie script (I would love - at the very least - to have a helping hang in the on-screen scene construction, as that's ultimately where so much of the story will be told in quite a few formats, and I would rather present it in some art form then describe it. Because for those without mental imaging capabilities when reading a novel... they wouldn't be able to get the full understanding of the scene. I guess this ultimately contributes to the upkeep of art as a freedom of expression?
I think I just need to get in contact with somebody, I just have no clue how I exactly go about that process. If I can be monetarily motivated by some hollywood exec stating my idea could see screentime if I fleshed it out into a script, well then by golly I think I'll devote some time to writing that script instead of browsing this site. lmao I could get quite a bit written if that were the case. :laugh:
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