by Cooper West | Apr 25, 2015 | Modus Operandi, Writing
I’m…a procrastinator. I just talked to my friend Robert, the handsome lacrosse player (am I in Teen Wolf? No? …probably for the best, I would spend all my time trying to pet Derek Hale), and we both laughed and laughed over the fact that my...
by Cooper West | Apr 22, 2015 | Modus Operandi
I have spent a lot of my life in laundromats. Basically, my parent’s house was the last place I actually had an in-house washer and dryer, which I lost after their deaths when I was in my 20s. Since then, it’s been a truism that the more basic necessities...
by Cooper West | Apr 19, 2015 | Writing Update
KEEP IN MIND: Sunday Six pullouts are by their nature spoilery. So if you don’t want to know, don’t read! More from the WIP “Parker” (yes yes, still with the lousy working title), the next novel in the Guardsmen’verse. If you can’t get enough...
by Cooper West | Apr 16, 2015 | Uncategorized
It’s not much of a secret that what I love to do, aside from the actual writing of a story, is the world-building for it. In the past I’ve created wikis for stories that still haven’t been finished and/or published. I guess it would be called...
by Cooper West | Apr 13, 2015 | Writing, Writing Process
One of THE MOST IMPORTANT lessons being involved with fanfiction taught me is to simply write what I love to write. This seems like one of the most obvious messages out there, but it’s also the last thing that writers are encouraged to do. While lip service is paid to...
