Deborah Cooke: Author

Category: Writing Life

  • Unexpected Fan Grrrl

    Yesterday, I mentioned that Mr. Math is on a spy movie binge. It started with the newer version of TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY. This adaptation of the John leCarré novel stars Colin Firth. The one Mr. Math remembered starred Alec Guinness and is an older version. There is also (we learned) a BBC television series…

  • I Spy

    Mr. Math is on a spy movie kick lately and that’s just fine with me. One of the best ways to learn storytelling techniques is by watching movies – not that anyone needs an excuse! – and one of the best ways to learn new storytelling techniques is to watch movies from outside of the…

  • Goodreads and Books

    Well, I finally have moseyed over to Goodreads and started to poke around. I had signed up last year (you can find me right here) to host some contests, selected a bunch of my books and not really had time to go through things. This past weekend, I had the brilliant idea that I’d add…

  • TAW – Week Two

    This week’s exercises in my Artist’s Way volume focus on perfectionism. This builds on the concept presented in earlier volumes of TAW of the inner critic or censor, and the notion that the critic (by insisting that nothing is good enough) keeps writers from getting anything done at all. Julia Cameron presents techniques to manage…

  • The Artist’s Way

    I’ve been thinking for a while that I was due for another twelve-week journey through Julia Cameron’s The Artist’s Way and this weekend, after a writers’ meeting, I pulled out the book and started. I’ve been doing my morning pages even since the last time I worked through the exercises, but lately had started to…