by Cooper West | Jan 11, 2015 | Writing
Finally starting this gig! I love reading the sunday-six of authors I follow and decided before the holidays to start doing it myself. And then…the holidays. Well you know. *sigh* These sentences are from the in-progress work I call “Parker.”...
by Cooper West | Oct 8, 2014 | Writing
I’ve written a series of articles I’ve awkwardly referred to as “Everything I learned from fandom” and they have been some of the most popular posts I’ve done. It’s all pretty subjective but I think pulls on a lot of universal...
by Cooper West | Oct 5, 2014 | Day!job, Health, Modus Operandi
So this photo is of my on-going “To Do” notebook. I know, fairly old-fashioned to have an actual hand-written list for that, but I take visceral pleasure in crossing things off my list when they are completed. The other side of that coin is the unremitting...
by Cooper West | Sep 1, 2014 | Modus Operandi
It’s no secret that I love Grumpy Cat – her picture is plastered all over my office, for one thing – but this drawing seems to capture the last month of my life. No, actually, this captures how I feel when I’m grieving: angry, annoyed, and...
by Cooper West | Jul 24, 2014 | Writing Process
I’m back into a writing schedule in a way I have not actively done since about 2011. Writing every day is critical practice for any author, but I put my writing career on hold in order to finish graduate school. It was the right move (I graduated on track), but...
