Step Back to Move Forward
June 2020 was a super-productive writing month for me. I logged over 10,000 words on my novel manuscript. Feeling energized by the progress, I made an even higher word count goal for July--a crazy big number.
An Interview with Jill Marie Thomas: Writing from Experience
I had the pleasure of meeting Jill Marie Thomas in 2017 on the first night of a writers’ conference in Pennsylvania. As it turns out, our passion for writing was cultivated under difficult circumstances. We marveled at how similar our…
An Interview with Carrie Anne Noble: Modern Fairytale Queen
In June 2017, I had the pleasure of meeting author Carrie Anne Noble at a writers’ conference. Her second novel, The Gold-Son, was released the week we met. I bought it at the conference, along with her first novel, The…
Summer 2020: Accept, Adapt, and Advance
Two weeks ago, the weirdest, wildest school year ever came to an unceremonious end. Despite sixteen years as a teacher, I was stretched and stressed in ways I couldn’t have anticipated when the year began. COVID quarantine, the death of…
Got Self-Doubt?
No matter who you are, self-doubt creeps in at times. As a writer, I’ve recently been grappling with what’s known as the “muddy middle” of my first novel. The term refers to a spot authors find themselves in when they…
Blooming in Due Time
Yesterday our family hit the highway for the first time in five weeks. Here in New Jersey, we are on a shelter at home order due to the surge in COVID-19 infections in our state. We decided on a drive…
Learning to Write Without Fear
Welcome to www.tracygcooper.com! I'm here because I got hurt in 2015 while training for my first half-marathon. Shortly after that race, a diagnosis that changed my life gave way to an unexpected passion.
