by Cooper West | Mar 21, 2015 | Day!job, Modus Operandi, Writing, Writing Life
I think most people who are paying attention know that those of us in the U.S. are not actually living in a meritocracy. While people can and do raise themselves up (the ladder, from poverty, to the proverbial top) by getting an education and working hard, there is a...
by Cooper West | Mar 15, 2015 | Writing, Writing Update
KEEP IN MIND: Sunday Six pullouts are by their nature spoilery. So if you don’t want to know, don’t read! Ahhh! Another teaser from the next Guardsman book! This time from Part 1, Chapter 9, where the lead character Greg is contacting his friend Marsha...
by Cooper West | Mar 14, 2015 | Modus Operandi
Over dinner with my good friend David this week, we talked about exhaustion. Mine, specifically, but also his in regards to his law practice. There is a lot of “powering through” going on in both of our lives. For me, it’s in the fact that many aspects of my life are...
by Cooper West | Mar 8, 2015 | Writing, Writing Update
Back on the wagon! Or…something. Well. Anyway. Because I’m trying not to be lame, here you go, more from the next Guardsman’verse book, which has the very lame working title “Parker”, and is currently at 70k words and is probably going to...
by Cooper West | Mar 2, 2015 | Modus Operandi
What makes a person “great”? I think the outpouring of tributes to Leonard Nimoy answers that question: they are great when they are beloved for who they are and what they have done. I’ve read a lot of beautifully sentimental essays about Nimoy, and I relate to all of...
