AC Cooper Writes

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  • Business Plan Review, Adjustment & Trying Something New

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    At the beginning of the year I had a very ambitious plan to write one short story per week. Of course, that plan went down in flames. No surprise, in fact, I think my inner critic was snickering at my goal setting endeavors, because when I reviewed my business plan today (only 7 days behind…

  • Mayhem…It’s what I need

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    Mayhem Definition, according to dictionary.com 1350-1400; Middle English maheym, maim < Anglo-French mahe(i)m, mahaim < Germanic; akin to Middle High German meidem gelding, Old Norse meitha to injure. Not a nice word, but I’m told I have to do it to my characters if I want to make them real. Of course I’m not saying…

  • Quick update

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    Keeping up the blog writing streak. Busy day today, still catching up on client work, which means that I’ve got to wrap up my week on Saturday. That’s life….at least I’ve got client work and for that I am thankful. God has truly blessed me. After wrapping up the client work then more on Visitor to…

  • Smashword Changes

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      Received an email today from Smashwords. Seems the competition (I’m assuming this of course) has encouraged them to make some changes. They’re now paying their authors monthly and they’re sending payments no matter what their account balances are at…used to be they’d only send a payment when your balance reached $10. Good for them…they’re…

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    Busy, busy day planned tomorrow. Shopping for household and grocery planned for tomorrow, oil change for the truck, other miscellaneous bits and bobbles. Wish I made enough money to pay someone to shop for me. 😛 Weird that a woman would say that, eh? Aren’t we supposed to be “wired” to shop? Or am I…

  • The Publishing Wars

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    Well, not wars, actually…more like friendly competition. 😀 Smashwords, Draft2Digital, Pronoun, BookBaby, KDP, Nook Press, Lulu, Barnes & Noble…argh!!! So many publishers/distributors!! Last year I put stories up on both KDP and Smashwords. Out of all of the distributors that Smashwords sends to, Barnes & Noble is, by far, where I’ve sold the most. Wondering…

  • The Day…and An Update on WIP

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      Typical work day, except…not. Should have gotten up when I woke up about 5 am, but figured I’d be too tired later in the day and tried to sleep until my normal wake-up of 6 am…so of course that meant I got up around 6:45 or so. Not ideal, but okay, I can still…

  • Lies, Damned Lies and More Lies

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    I remember history in school. I remember it as being boring…snooze-inducing. Dates, names, places…all dry, dry dry and nothing to do with my life growing up in the middle of America. Until I had a world history teacher in college. I was amazed. She’d walk into the class, sit on the edge of her desk,…

  • On Being Social

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    Good day. Stayed home all day, created some more mock-ups and am in the process of creating headers for this website and Facebook. The one above is for three of my published stories. Needs a better background, though, but I was just playing around.  Have no idea how (or if) I’ll use the mock-up but…

  • What’s in a name?

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      I’m discovering that the hardest part for me…well one of the hardest parts, actually…is coming up with a name for my characters. I can usually come up with a main character name, but the other people that get drawn into the story…well, I usually find myself using name generators, lol. I think it’s because…