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 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 | 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 | 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...
by Cooper West | Apr 28, 2014 | Editorial, Writing
One of the more powerful tools in an author’s arsenal is the act of finding your niche. What fandom has taught me about this, though, is that it is not defined the way most people think it is. For instance, a particular fandom might be considered a niche,...
