by Cooper West | Oct 24, 2011 | Modus Operandi
Alas, the subject line is not the title for a new short story. I know, I’m disappointed too. It is, unfortunately, more like the tease that is my life right now with so many “balls in the air”: do THIS! do THAT! go HERE! go THERE! And I’m not...
by Cooper West | Oct 18, 2011 | Announcements!
Errr…it was actually out yesterday. *sheepish grin* But moving right along! Higher Learning is chock full of really fun stories, including my own bon mot “Accismus”. I don’t normally write about college-age characters so it was a fun change of...
by Cooper West | Oct 15, 2011 | Modus Operandi
Society implicitly tells us that if we follow our dreams, we are living in a dream world. If you let people know that you are investing yourself — time, money, energy — into your passion, you’ll get the standard three-penny lecture warning you about...
by Cooper West | Oct 11, 2011 | Modus Operandi, Writing Update
To understand my relationship with “accountability” and “discipline”, it is important to understand that I was homeschooled for most of my childhood. And not that regimented, faux-school homeschool, either; nope, I was unschooled, back in the...
by Cooper West | Oct 9, 2011 | Modus Operandi
I’m in graduate school, did I mention? I did? Oh. Okay. The point being, it is exhausting. It was not too bad when I was gainfully unemployed and starving on unemployment benefits, but that less-than-adequate “free ride” (which was paid for in full...
