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How Long Does It Take You to Get Dressed?

[image error]As part of my continuing quest to try to understand what other people go through in life, I’ve turned my attention to the very important topic of “How long does it take you to get dressed?” This came to mind this morning, as I was staying home to be with MC while she’s sick (poor thing). Denisa was getting ready to go to work, and I watched her try on probably six or seven different combinations of clothes before she found one she was happy with.

Is this a normal thing?

My “get dressed in the morning” routine involves the following:

Put on a clean pair of jeans. (Or at least pretend they’re clean enough.)
Go to the closet and grab a shirt on the left. (I put fresh shirts on the right of the closet. This way, I continually cycle through clean shirts.)
Add socks and shoes, and I’m good to go!

The whole thing takes about a minute. Granted, there are some shirts I like more than others, and so now and then I’ll skip to the next shirt for one day. But other than that, that’s the full extent of what I do to pick my clothes. Denisa thinks I’m strange. I think I’m efficient.

That said, I suppose when I get dressed up, it takes a bit more time. I have to pick between three different jackets I could wear, two different pairs of pants, and a number of ties. But even then, I usually default to picking what’s closest.

Remember: on my mission, I wore the same time every day for . . . about 18 months? I wore it until my mission president suggested I ought to stop, because it was scaring children. (Or something like that.) I didn’t wear it because it was a rule. I wore it because it involved less thinking. I literally couldn’t care less what clothes I have on. If I bought them at some point, I’m good with having them on me, so long as the occasion is right. (Wearing shorts to a formal dinner isn’t something I would do.)

But let’s calculate this out a little. It takes me around a minute each day to select my clothes. It takes Denisa around . . . 7, I’d guess. Over the course of the year, I spend 6 hours picking out what to wear. Denisa spends 43 hours. This means that since we’ve been married, I’ve spent 4.3 days picking out clothes, and she’s spent 30.2 days. I’ve had almost a complete extra month of my life, free to kick back and play games, read books, and goof around.

No wonder she’s so stressed.

And the Screenwriters for THE MEMORY THIEF Adaptation are . . .

[image error]You might think I have some sort of inside track to all the news on the film adaptation of THE MEMORY THIEF. And maybe I have a little, but today I was reminded how narrow that inside track really is. I’m a librarian, right? And that means I search things. Occasionally I search personal things. It’s been over a year since The Memory Thief movie adaptation was announced. I know they’ve been working on a script for the film. It’s progressing. But that’s about all I knew.

This morning, I took a quick jaunt around the interwebs to see if, perhaps, someone else might have a scoop on things. Maybe the person writing the screenplay had posted about it on his or her blog, or Tweeted about it, right?

It turns out, Deadline announced back at the end of October who’s doing the screenplay: Radio Silence. They also have a wikipedia page. According to Deadline:

Radio Silence is composed of Matt Bettinelli-Olpin, Tyler Gillett and Chad Villella. The collective previously directed Southbound, which premiered at the 2015 Toronto Film Festival.

Checking out their bios online, it looks like they’ve focused primarily on horror. They did a segment in V/H/S, and they did a series of online videos, as well. Their best well-known one (watched more than 33,000,000 times) is this one:

Though they’ve touched on some humor in a few of their shorts, I don’t see a much aimed at a kid audience. Which actually suits me fine. I really like their concept of the Choose Your Own Adventure shorts, and the fact that one of the trio is from Punxsutawney is a definite plus.

Writing Update

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It’s been a while since I’ve posted an update on how my various writing projects. It feels like I’ve had so many balls in the air for so long, but strangely at the moment I’m in a bit of a lull between many different projects. Here’s a rundown:

MEMORY THIEF 2: The latest draft is still with my editors. I know they generally liked it, but they’re waiting on giving more specific feedback as the screenplay for MEMORY THIEF is worked on. The original August 2018 publication date has been pushed back to at least fall 2018, but (more realistically) probably Spring 2019 or so. It’s not entirely in my hands. But the delay is for good reasons (the potential film adaptation) and not for bad reasons (backing out of the project). The draft is done and close to ready for  publication. Just waiting on a green light for me to be able to share more with you all.
UTOPIA: A second draft is complete at with my agent as of a week ago. In the second draft, I worked on fleshing out the setting more, as well as adding a bit more grounding so that the main character’s voice isn’t completely confusing. I really love this book, and I hope my agent does too.
MURDER CASTLE: This has been with my agent since December. I’ve heard a bit back from him, generally positive, but I don’t have an editorial letter to work through just yet. Hopefully soon.
INCIDENT AT OAK CREEK: A short story I wrote that’s now with an editor and with my agent (to see if he thinks I could turn it into a full book). I thought it was a lot of fun (kung fu Mormon steampunk alternative history is always fun, right?), but we’ll see what others think.
MAGIC AT 30,000 FEET: We had shopped this around with editors, and it got a lot of positive feedback. But we also consistently heard some hesitancy due to its audience. It was a Middle Grade novel in some aspects, and a YA novel in others. So I tried revising it to be more YA. My agent wasn’t crazy about the revision. I have a couple of other ideas out to him that I might try to revise, but I’m not even sure I’ll go back to work on them. We’ll see what he says.
OUR LADY OF QUESTIONABLE MORALS: Submitted to many editors. Heard back from many. Like TARNHELM before it, I think this book is just going to chill for a while. I love it, it got good responses from editors, but no actual takers. My agents have said it’s generally a decent idea to sit on these books until I’ve got a few more published books under my belt, at which point it becomes easier to sell them. I’m all for doing the things my agents suggest I do.

And because people still occasionally ask me:

VODNIK 2: I’ve had a couple of conversations with my editor about the potential for a sequel. The first book was certainly well received, but it didn’t perform as well from a sales-perspective. I would happily write another book, but I just don’t think that’s in the cards for the foreseeable future, alas.

Which leaves me in my current state, where I don’t really have a project I’m working on. I have several revisions right around the corner, so I don’t want to dive into a completely new book, but the revisions aren’t here yet, so . . .

I’m waiting.

Good things on the horizon, I hope. In really good news, I got my first real live royalty check yesterday, for THE MEMORY THIEF. That means the book is officially successful in my mind, which is a great feeling. Here’s hoping there’s many more royalty checks to come.

Thanks for reading!

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Ready Player One Movie Review

[image error]Last week was a busy week, so to blow some steam, I took a long lunch break and headed out to the theaters to go see Ready Player One by myself. Because adult.

I was a big fan of the book, which makes sense, as it was a science fiction book chock full of 80s pop culture references, so it was pretty much tailor made for me. And that’s exactly the kind of adaptation that might end up going very wrong. If you love an original, seeing someone else do something to that original is a risk. They might have gotten something else out of it, and so you could end up hating their adaptation.

That said, if anyone could do a Ready Player One adaptation, it would be Steven Spielberg. The man’s responsible for a ton of 80s nostalgia, after all. Why not return to his roots?

So how was it? Mixed. There were parts of the movie that I loved. There were other parts that just didn’t work for me.

Even basic things like the nostalgia bits were hit and miss. On the one hand, it was a blast to see all the references peppered throughout the movie. My favorite sequence was the recreation of The Shining, which isn’t in the novel but made total sense for the movie. (For me, at least. I could see some people really disliking how much they changed the novel.) But at the same time, when a lot of the interest of the movie is driven by referring to other movies you loved, there are times when you start wishing you were watching those other movies, instead. In some ways, it started to feel kind of like those musicals where they’ve pieced together all the greatest hits of an artist or band. The connections between the songs begin to be a stretch.

The pop culture references seemed just too much at times. In the book, a great deal is made out of how niche a lot of this stuff is. How only some people really understood all the references. But in the movie, it came across as much more mainstream. As if all the people in 2046 know all about the 1980s. But think for a second. That’s like me knowing all about the pop culture of the 1950s right now. I know general things, but the ins and outs? Forget it.

Plus, you’ve got the issue of VR in the movie. Everyone’s supposedly using it, and that’s easy enough to handle in a book. You just describe it. But for the film, Spielberg made it a sort of fusion between AR and VR, with people having full on battles in VR on real life city streets. And that makes . . . not a whole lot of sense. I kept trying to figure out how it would all function, and it never became clear. That’s a problem.

But when the movie was working well, it was working really well. The action scenes were a lot of fun. The concept itself (a worldwide treasure hunt for an insanely valuable fortune) is one that can hold up any number of plots. The acting was fine. The effects were great. The music was a series of references, as you’d expect.

In the end, I had a good time. It’s a film I would recommend seeing in theaters, on a big screen. But will I remember it years from now? Probably not. I’ll remember the movies it referred to, but this amalgamation will just blend together, mainly because it didn’t actually do that much with it all. It’s a generic plot wrapped up in pop culture, with a sci-fi finish that doesn’t really make sense when you try to think about it more than a little.

And that’s not a recipe for a smashing success.

I gave it a 6.5/10. What did you think?

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If you’d rather not sign up for Patreon, you can also support the site by clicking the MEMORY THIEF Amazon link on the right of the page. That will take you to Amazon, where you can buy my books or anything else. During that visit, a portion of your purchase will go to me. It won’t cost you anything extra.

How Do You Spend Your Time Each Week?

[image error]I know this is a hard question to accurately answer sometimes, as a lot of it depends on time of the year and however things work at your individual job, but I was talking to a couple of friends last night, and the subject came up. How many hours do you work per week?

Some of this probably boils down to what you define as “work”. For the purposes of this post, let’s say “time spent at your job, away from home and family.” So if you eat lunch at work, I’ll count that as work, even though you might technically be on a lunch break. You’re not at home with your family. Likewise, if you work at home, then it would count time in your office working, not spent with your family.

Let’s also not include things like doing chores around the home, doing your taxes, or other “cost of having a life” sort of things. Maybe I need more stipulations, but that seems like a good outline to start from.

At my library job, I’m physically at work from 6:45am to 4:00pm, Monday through Friday. So that’s 9.25 hours/day. About 46 hours/week. In addition to that, I often have to do some work at home from time to time during the week, checking emails, responding to requests, etc. I’d say that takes a couple of hours each week. So for the library side of my work, it’s around 48 hours away from my family.

Then there’s the writing side of things. I’d estimate I spend on average an hour a day with that. 6 hours/week. Some times it’s definitely much more, however. Deadlines are a real thing.

All told, that means I’m doing work around 54 hours each week. Add to that my commute of about 15 minutes total each day, and that’s another hour or so, which brings me to 55 hours/week. That includes two separate jobs, however. (I supposed if you wanted to count time I spend on my church calling (since it’s away from my family), that would add another 5 hours each week, on average.)

I know that’s much less than a lot of people. Certainly speaking to my friends last night, it made me very grateful that I don’t have to work the long hours they’re expected to. Part of me feels really guilty actually for posting this. It’s not meant as a brag. I’d just like to have a better understanding of what other people are going through compared to what I’m going through. I thought it would be helpful for other people to see the same thing.

Of course, none of this really encapsulates the “work on household chores” side of things, does it? So let’s throw that in here as well. I’d estimate I spend around 10 hours/week on that. I know Denisa spends much more than that, though I’m not sure how much. I’m not including “time spent watching the kids,” because that’s hard to quantify, and I’d really like to avoid having hours overlap. Each hour can only be counted for one thing.

But why stop there? There are 168 hours in a week. How about I try to account for all of them? Each night, I sleep around 7.5 hours. That’s 52.5 hours total. Each week, I get together with Tomas and some friends to play Magic the Gathering for about 4 hours. I usually watch media with Denisa and/or the kids for 2 hours/day. 14 hours. I read for about 8 hours/week. I get ready for 40 minutes each morning (showering, eating breakfast, etc.). 5 hours total. I eat dinner each day. Call that another 5 hours total per week. Time each day to get ready for bed. Call that 2 hours per week. I’m at church 4 hours each week(including travel time). That leaves me with about 3 hours of miscellaneous time each week.

So my grand total on an average week is broken down as follows:

48 hours at work
1 hour commuting
6 hours writing
5 hours for church calling (High Council)
10 hours chores
53 hours sleeping
4 hours Magic: the Gathering
14 hours watching media
8 hours reading
5 hours getting ready
5 hours eating dinner
2 hours getting ready for bed
4 hours at church
3 hours miscellaneous

Is it precise? No. There’s some generalizations in there, but that probably represents a standard snapshot of my week.

So what does yours look like? I’d be interested in finding out.

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Like what you’ve read? Please consider supporting me on Patreon. Thanks to all my Patrons who support me! It only takes a minute or two, and then it’s automatic from there on out. Plus, did I mention the sweet perks like exclusive access to unpublished books, works in progress, and Skype visits? Check it out.

If you’d rather not sign up for Patreon, you can also support the site by clicking the MEMORY THIEF Amazon link on the right of the page. That will take you to Amazon, where you can buy my books or anything else. During that visit, a portion of your purchase will go to me. It won’t cost you anything extra.

Libraries: The New Commons

[image error]For the past several months, I’ve been involved with the New Commons Project at the University of Maine at Farmington. It’s a fascinating effort, as they’ve asked people across the state, “What cultural works are of most value to us today?” The answers have ranged all over the place, from pop music to Dr. Seuss, graffiti artists to Jane Austen. Once the finalists are selected (to be announced tomorrow!), we will be looking at each work, one month at a time. 24 works will be selected in total.

Yesterday was the big kick off lecture for the series. Lewis Hyde, a well-known “cultural critic with a particular interest in the public life of the imagination,” came to talk to our campus about the idea of a commons: a body of work that society can draw from collectively. It was a fascinating talk, and I’m really looking forward to seeing the sort of programming that comes out of the final selections. (Being on the selection committee, perhaps I’m biased, but I think we’re in for some really awesome months.)

But as I was listening to his talk, and to the discussion that followed over how copyright influences a commons, and what should be done to make sure things are as accessible as possible, I couldn’t help think about the root idea of a commons. It’s a term for the traditional idea of English common land that could be used by the entire town for any number of reasons. I love the idea of a cultural commons, but the more I thought about it, the more obvious it became that the only reason such a cultural commons could exist is due (today) to two main things: the internet, and libraries.

The internet is obvious. So much of what we do these days relies on our connection to the cloud. Whether we’re streaming movies on Netflix, reading articles on CNN, or checking out the latest social media posts on Facebook, the internet has come to dominate our lives. If this were a few decades ago, I would be arguing public television was the commons of the day. It was ubiquitous, freely available, and connected us in a unique way. Years before that, it was the radio. But culture moves onward, and the audience for television is too splintered these days for me to really feel like it’s that “commons” for now. A friend was asking on Facebook for television show recommendations a few days ago, and I couldn’t just rattle off shows I liked. I wanted to first know what streaming platforms she had access to. What’s the point of recommending something you can’t watch?

Which is where libraries come in, naturally. And actually, libraries also make it possible for the internet to be a real commons. It’s too easy for people with good access to the internet to take it for granted, but speaking as someone who lives in an area of the country where high internet speeds aren’t always easy to come by, I can definitely say that having a library with free, high speed internet is vital to ensuring everyone has access to the internet. And libraries do more than that. They compile works and make them publicly available. They pay for content so you don’t have to.

Professor Hyde wondered aloud at some of the candidates for the New Commons, questioning how copyright might make access to those works really possible. And it’s true that some of them might be very tricky. But speaking as the Library Director here on campus, I can also say we will be right there waiting to make sure people have access to whatever they want to view, read, or listen to, whenever they want to.

It was a day it was easy to be proud to be a librarian.

If you’re local to the state, keep an eye out for the announcement tomorrow of what’s been selected as the first 12 entries. I can’t wait to see what you think.

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Like what you’ve read? Please consider supporting me on Patreon. Thanks to all my Patrons who support me! It only takes a minute or two, and then it’s automatic from there on out. Plus, did I mention the sweet perks like exclusive access to unpublished books, works in progress, and Skype visits? Check it out.

If you’d rather not sign up for Patreon, you can also support the site by clicking the MEMORY THIEF Amazon link on the right of the page. That will take you to Amazon, where you can buy my books or anything else. During that visit, a portion of your purchase will go to me. It won’t cost you anything extra.

Waving the White Flag

There are some days when writing a blog post is going to be touch and go. There are other days I just have to admit defeat and hope for more time tomorrow. Today has been one of the latter.

Sorry folks. You’re going to have to internet without me today.

All Hail the Victor

[image error]March Madness has come to a close. It was a pretty bad year for my bracket, right up until the end. I only picked 5 out of 16 for the Sweet Sixteen, for example. That’s pretty miserable. 2 out of 8 for the Elite Eight. 1 out of 4 for the Final Four. But that 1 was Villanova, who I picked to win it all, so when Villanova did win everything, I shot up to finish up 4th out of 16 in my blog bracket challenge.

But 4th is not 1st, and this year Betsey Hyde emerged the victor, snatching victory right out of the hands of Kevin Albert, who’d had a fair run up until then. (Sure, just 8/16 for Sweet Sixteen, and 3/8 for the Elite Eight, but 2/4 for the Final Four, and he picked the championship game exactly.)

So congratulations, Betsey. You’re officially in the acknowledgements page for MEMORY THIEF 2. (Now if I could only announce what the title is for the book and when it’s coming out . . . )

Thanks to all who participated, and better luck to all of us (except Betsey) next year!

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Like what you’ve read? Please consider supporting me on Patreon. Thanks to all my Patrons who support me! It only takes a minute or two, and then it’s automatic from there on out. Plus, did I mention the sweet perks like exclusive access to unpublished books, works in progress, and Skype visits? Check it out.

If you’d rather not sign up for Patreon, you can also support the site by clicking the MEMORY THIEF Amazon link on the right of the page. That will take you to Amazon, where you can buy my books or anything else. During that visit, a portion of your purchase will go to me. It won’t cost you anything extra.

Who Wants to Be a Grand High Groundhog? New Patreon Perks!

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After making my plea for support of the blog at the beginning of the year, I’ve been very happy to see people come forward to answer the call. I broke the small $10/month goal I set at the beginning of the year, and I decided to take some time to flesh out the Patreon more fully.

So, starting today, there are actual reward tiers, with perks attached to each. Here they are:

The lowest tier is the “Junior Woodchuck” level. Commit to $1/month and you have my heartfelt thanks and (I assume) the thanks of all my other readers, seeing as how your support makes the blog possible. You also gain access to the Patreon message board, where you can make suggestions for media I should consume and request blog posts on various topics.

Next up is “Woodchuck First Class” at $3/month. Congratulations, woodchuck-chucker, you’ve just earned yourself some cool perks. First off, you’ll get a free copy of Cavern of Babel (in Kindle format). In addition, you get the right to sponsor one blog post a month. That means you get to give me a blog prompt (topic or something to review) and I’ll respond on the blog. There’s a forum on the message boards to do this. Finally, all current First Class Woodchucks will get their names in the acknowledgements page of each book I publish. Your name, in print. (And to think your mother-in-law said you’d never amount to much!)

Above that is the “Elite Whistlepig” level at $6/month. In addition to getting all the perks of Woodchuck (First Class), you’ll get to read two chapters a month of an unpublished book by yours truly. We’ll start off with ICHABOD and move on from there. These chapters will be posted the first and third Friday every month.

Finally, there’s the “Grand High Groundhog” at $9/month. In addition to getting all the perks of Whistlepigs and Woodchucks, your gloriousness will get to read one chapter of one of my current works in progress each month. (Talk about exclusive!) This chapter will be posted the second Friday every month. And finally, I will do a 20 minute Skype visit with a class or book group of each Groundhog’s choosing, once per year (per Groundhog).

Any of my current Patrons are eligible for the Grand High Groundhog level as long as they stay Patrons. (They’re grandfather in.) Unfortunately, they aren’t able to automatically be able see the chapters as they get posted. (Patreon locks them to select tiers, and they won’t let me automatically upgrade people.) So if you’re a current Patron and want to see them, just email me or message me on Facebook, and I’ll email you each month when they get posted.

The first chapter of ICHABOD will go up this Friday. I might continue to tweak these perks as it makes sense, but this seems like a reasonable place to start. If you have any questions, let me know!

Sign up for the Patreon here.

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Like what you’ve read? Please consider supporting me on Patreon. Thanks to all my Patrons who support me! It only takes a minute or two, and then it’s automatic from there on out. Plus, did I mention the sweet perks like exclusive access to unpublished books, works in progress, and Skype visits? Check it out.

If you’d rather not sign up for Patreon, you can also support the site by clicking the MEMORY THIEF Amazon link on the right of the page. That will take you to Amazon, where you can buy my books or anything else. During that visit, a portion of your purchase will go to me. It won’t cost you anything extra.

Fiction Faculty at Longfellow Young Writers’ Workshop

[image error]Great news today, folks. I’ve been asked to be on the faculty for this year’s Longfellow Young Writers’ Workshop at the University of Maine at Farmington. What’s that, you say? It’s a week-long writing camp for high school sophomores, juniors, and seniors. It’s here at the university where I work as library director, and I’m really excited to be able to branch out a bit and dip my toes back into the teaching of writing scene.

Back in the day, when I was at BYU, I completed all the requirements for a Masters of English in Creative Writing. Took all the coursework. Wrote the novel. (Two, actually). You name it. But because they don’t let you double major with a masters, I had to pick Masters of English in American Literature as the official “thing I got a degree in.” I loved going to creative writing classes, talking with other people about how to write and how to get better at the process of writing.

For years, I was also in a writing group, first in person, and then on Skype. I finally had to give it up as part of my Quest to Not Do As Much Stuff, but I still miss it. I hope this will be a way for me to get a bit of that fun back. Be around other writerly types and encourage young writers to keep honing their craft.

The workshop looks like a ton of fun. It goes from July 15th-21st. Here’s the description from their website:

The program, for continuing high school students (those entering their sophomore, junior or senior year), gives you a full week to immerse yourself in the writing world. You’ll work with published writers and students as serious about writing as you are.

Mornings will be spent meeting in small intensive workshops of no more than fifteen students, where you will engage in the art of poetry, fiction, screenwriting and creative nonfiction. Afternoons will be spent hearing craft talks from successful writers, visiting a poetry press, attending presentations, or relaxing with hiking, swimming or yoga. In the evening sit back and listen to writers read from their work. The week will end with students reading their own work at the final banquet.

Workshops are serious, yet supportive, and fun. The focus will be on new approaches to writing, ways of seeing your own writing and the writing of others in different ways, while continuing to maintain faith in your ability to write, and never losing sight of the joy and playfulness inherent in the act of writing. There are no wrong answers, but the faculty and other students can help you find ways to get across what you mean with more beauty, with greater force.

Writers will stay on UMF’s campus in shared rooms (you can pick your roomate if you want to). You’ll live on a floor with other people your age with the same interest in creative writing that you have. Senior-level college students, majoring in creative writing at UMF, will live with you in the dorms. They will be friendly and accessible, available to help you find your way around campus, or to give you advice on a piece of writing. Two Michael Macklin Scholarships for Young Maine Writers will be awarded to Maine Residents, the Ilgenfritz Scholarship provides one scholarship for a female student living in Waldo or Knox counties; these two fellowships are sponsored by the Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance. We also offer several partial scholarships open to residents of any state or nation sponsored by the University of Maine, Farmington and the BFA program in Creative Writing.

There will also be opportunities for hikes in the mountains, yoga classes, swimming, and more. Plus you’ll have all the beauty of a summer week in Maine.

So if you, or someone you know, would be interested in this, drop me a line. Tuition and board is $800, although if you don’t stay on campus, that’s reduced to $535. Need and merit-based scholarships are available.

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If you’d rather not sign up for Patreon, you can also support the site by clicking the MEMORY THIEF Amazon link on the right of the page. That will take you to Amazon, where you can buy my books or anything else. During that visit, a portion of your purchase will go to me. It won’t cost you anything extra.