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 | Jun 10, 2013 | Modus Operandi, Writing Process
I know that’s a really weird post title, but it’s also true. I got a new chair, and I think it’s changed my life. It’s not, actually a new chair. It’s a little beat up and scratched up hand-me-down from a friend who is downsizing in...
by Cooper West | Oct 15, 2011 | Modus Operandi
Society implicitly tells us that if we follow our dreams, we are living in a dream world. If you let people know that you are investing yourself — time, money, energy — into your passion, you’ll get the standard three-penny lecture warning you about...
by Cooper West | Aug 9, 2011 | Editorial, Writing Process
It might seem odd that a romance writer, whose whole genre (and therefore livelihood) is predicated on the mythology of “one true love!” which is the foundation of Western ideas of romantic relationships, would be a huge fan of a book which detractors describe as an...
by Cooper West | Jul 2, 2011 | Writing Update
What month. My goal was a modest 2k words a day, which I never hit even once. My average, in fact, stands at 721 words per day. The 10th through the 19th, I never wrote a single word. The fact is I am absorbed by summer classes in grad school, and right in the middle...
