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 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 | 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 | Aug 4, 2013 | Writing Process
My personal goal in life is to do ALL THE THINGS. Too much? It really is, unfortunately. I’m the kind of person who sets outrageously unrealistic goals for myself, the kind of goals that make people squint at me and wonder if I’m drunk. When of course I...
by Cooper West | Jul 31, 2013 | Editorial, Writing Process
The act of writing is a touchy subject for writers to talk about, even if we seem to talk about it endlessly (sorry?). What concerns me is why readers read what we write. Those two subjects are actually related. Porter Anderson recently wrote a thought-provoking post...
by Cooper West | Jul 30, 2013 | Writing Process
I’m working on a book cover for my M/F/M paranormal romance about Ursula the werebear. As you can probably tell, I’m also still working on a title. The series is called “The Chatelaine” but I want a book title that can be riffed on for subsequent books, much as Janet...
