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I’m Back!
Welcome back to my online home. It’s been a weird world since I last posted here. Maybe it’s always been weird, and I just wasn’t paying attention, but I admit to having been distracted by non-literary stuff. Despite the turmoil of life as I know it, however, I’m pleased to be well and ready to…
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In Praise of Index Cards
By now you know that I read a lot. But you probably don’t know how I struggle to retain some sense of what I’ve read. Sometimes I comment in my daily journal, sometimes add pages to a notebook dedicated to writing advice, sometimes I make a quasi library card and add it to my index…
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Courage Called For
So many things can stop me from writing–a wonky keyboard, a challenging crossword puzzle, a sleepless night. But these are excuses. What too often stops me is inertia. And that comes from fear, not screams-in-the-dark fear, not attack by rhinos, not that fear. My fear is not getting it right. But getting it right is…
Karen Douglass, Author 