by Cooper West | Aug 2, 2012 | fanfic
If you’re new to this blog, you might be surprised to find out that I am very proud of being a fanfic author, and I’m also a member of the OTW. I’m comfortable with fanfic as a professional romance writer, a fanfic writer, and a reader of both;...
by Cooper West | Jul 31, 2012 | Editorial, Writing Industry
I really don’t want this space to become yet another blog about writing; there are plenty of excellent ones already out there, and I don’t feel qualified to teach/lead people in their writing careers, and I’ve got plenty else going on in my life to...
by Cooper West | Jul 27, 2012 | Editorial
In my role as a professional archivist I come across interesting things sometimes. Recently I was processing (identifying, sorting, and describing) a bunch of letters written in the late 1990s by people who were describing their personal experiences of WWII. Most of...
by Cooper West | Jul 17, 2012 | Modus Operandi
I like to write characters who are not perfect; they are usually broken in a way that is particular to their circumstances. Gary Winston (Dawn in the Orchard) has stage fright, which is his natural reaction to the stress of a bad relationship and trying to push his...
by Cooper West | Jul 15, 2012 | gradschool, Modus Operandi
I spent the past week in New Orleans for a conference where I was co-presenting. Due to the nature of my participation (I was not a member of the organization the conference was for) I got the chance to spend two of those days wandering around NOLA in the dead of...
