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 | Aug 20, 2012 | Modus Operandi
Like a lot of people, I discovered Joel Runyon and his Blog of Impossible Things via his post about his amazing encounter with Russell Kirsh. I genuinely like self-improvement blog sites, because they are simple, convenient motivation. We all need motivation. You...
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 9, 2012 | Modus Operandi
I love to travel, although I do it rarely enough that it makes me a nervous wreck. A huge personal goal of mine as a writer is to make enough money to be able to travel the world…maybe not all at once, mind, but in pieces over time. Meanwhile, I have a...
by Cooper West | May 15, 2012 | Editorial
If you aren’t a writer, you probably missed the guest post by Tom Schreck at Joe Konrath’s blog, A Newbie’s Guide to Publishing. I think if you aren’t a writer, on the whole it might not interest you, but there is one section where Tom talks...
