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My name is Ben Haskett. I\u2019m an assistant deputy appellate court clerk during the day. I enjoy writing. On a good night, after dinner is consumed and the kids are in bed, I might manage to sit down for 20 minutes and cobble together about 300 words. On other nights, I won\u2019t get the chance to write, but I might get a chance to reflect on the 300 words I wrote the day before.<\/p>\n

Saturdays are the best nights. On these magical evenings, I slink away to the \u201coffice\u201d (read: the room in our house with a computer in it), shotgun a Rockstar, and then bang out a few thousand words before whatever\u2019s in that caffeine potion wears off and I begin drooling.<\/p>\n

Rinse and repeat. It\u2019s a slow process.<\/p>\n

If you take the word author<\/em> by its most literal definition, then I suppose I am an author. I\u2019m not rushing out to Office Max to get perforated business cards or anything, but I\u2019m enjoying the fun, creativity, and flexibility that comes with writing.<\/p>\n

In 2016, I got a notion to write a book and then, over the next six months, actually managed to pull all these 300- and 2000-word snippets together and form a semi-coherent, 50,000-word salad that I tricked people into believing was a \u201cbook.\u201d<\/p>\n

Or, well\u2026 I don\u2019t know why I\u2019m being self-deprecatory. It felt like quite an accomplishment, actually, starting and finishing a short novel that was competent and relatively free of typos.\u00a0 If you’re curious about The Waypoint<\/em>, you can check it out here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m happy with the way it turned out, and I admittedly feel a little pride when I see the book cover.\u00a0 I\u2019m not sure if I\u2019m proud because of the quality of the writing or just because it\u2019s a thing that I started and finished.\u00a0 It\u2019s probably somewhere in the middle.<\/p>\n

In early 2017, I ran a small Kickstarter campaign<\/a> to raise enough money for an audio book version.\u00a0 Thankfully, it was successful, and my pal Cody Parcell<\/a> did a great job reading the book.\u00a0 So now, it\u2019s available on Audible<\/a>, which is pretty cool.<\/p>\n

Now I\u2019m working on my second story, A Troll and his Bard<\/em>, and at 67,000 words, I\u2019m more than halfway through.<\/p>\n

The title of this website, This is Me Now, is in reference to an episode of Bob’s Burgers:<\/p>\n