by Cooper West | Aug 21, 2013 | Modus Operandi
Last night my co-worker and I met up with a former intern and her boyfriend for a dinner and a few drinks. The intern has graduated our program and is moving out of state to be with her boyfriend, who is still finishing up his own master’s degree. It was a...
by Cooper West | Aug 8, 2013 | Editorial
A post by author Lisa Morton (whom I will NOT link to from here) and the various reactions around the interwebz about it, most perfectly represented by John Scalzi’s rebuttal, has been making the rounds within the communities of writers I belong to. And it’s really,...
by Cooper West | Jun 17, 2013 | Modus Operandi, Writing Update
While Mondays have, in general, a bad reputation, my relationship with the start of the day!jobs workweek is usually humorous: “Oh Monday, you rascal you!” Not today. Today both day!jobs were irksome and frustrating and too busy and unexpectedly stinky...
by Cooper West | Jun 11, 2013 | Modus Operandi
OMG I really need to break this habit of eating at my work desk. I think this is a hangover from the pre-divorce days. I pretty much holed up in my bedroom and lived there. Husband and I still lived together through the whole thing, just with separate bedrooms, and...
