AC Cooper Writes

Fiction author

Category: Musings

  • Discipline Isn’t Always a Dirty Word

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    Discipline. To a child it means “oops, I’m in trouble.” To an adult it means “staying on a diet” or “doing what I have to do.” To both a child and an adult then, discipline has a negative connotation. Merriam-Webster expands on that narrow definition. My favorite definition is number 5c; “self control” punishment obsolete…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Slipping Jimmy…And the Shifting Schedule

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        Anyone ever watch the series “Breaking Bad?” Love, love, loved it. Intense, head shakingly stupid mistakes made by some of the characters but fun. One of the characters from that movie was the lawyer named Saul. I’ve never really known any lawyers on a personal basis, and I’m sure there are a lot…

  • Doubts

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    Ever have doubts about what you’re doing? Doubts that you’ll ever get any better? Doubts that say you’re wasting your time? Doubts that what you’ve just written sucks beyond all comprehension? Not me. lol…just kidding! I do have doubts…all of the time, in fact…but a very wise long time fiction writer reminds me that it’s…

  • What Does Storytelling Mean to You?

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    Sometimes I ramble and sometimes I’m spot on with whatever I’m talking about, but the main reason behind this blog is to keep myself accountable to my own goals, and yes, dreams. Come along for the ride if you like…if you dare….muah ha, ha, ha!   My day: Still on vacation, so it wasn’t a…

  • Two More Chapters

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    Two more chapters done for the story In His Name. Only around 4,000 or so words in, so could be a short story or novella. Don’t think it will be novel length, but we’ll see. Also, I think it will be a horror, but not entirely sure yet, since I “write into the abyss”. 😀 Slow going,…