by Cooper West | Apr 3, 2016 | Writing Process
KEEP IN MIND: Sunday Six pullouts are by their nature spoilery. So if you don’t want to know, don’t read! It has, shockingly, been a whole damn year since I pulled six sentences from Parker for you all to read. Wow. Well, April is the month I’m wrapping this...
by Cooper West | Apr 26, 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! And yes, more from “Parker”. This, though, is a bit experimental. Several beta readers really wanted some of the story from Parker’s...
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 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 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...
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...
