Karen Douglass, Author

Karen Douglass, Author: Prose & Poetry

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  • Playing catch up

    Writing is central to me, but other things can and do draw me away. There’s health to attend to that drew me away yesterday. Nothing dire, just routine stuff, but it took time keeping current with scans and jabs and such. So yesterday, when I should have been here at my desk, I rewarded myself…

  • Why write?

    Some days I ask myself that. For the longest time my goal was to connect with readers, although I never expected to win prizes or make a bundle of money. For one thing, my initial work was poetry and that’s more often than not a gift to the world rather than a source of income.…

  • The importance of dinosaurs

    Instead of sending you to the library in the hope of finding Kenneth Lacovara’s small orange book, Why Dinosaurs Matter, I suggest you go to TED talks and find him there. This is not an issue to ignore. Listen to his whole talk because at the finale he convinced me that the history of dinosaurs…

  • A good read

    How to decide what to read? My routine is to first browse the faced-out books on the library shelf near the front entrance. Then I wander to my favorite areas and almost always come home with some old friends and a few newbies. For the latter the information on the cover matters. So, when I…

  • Watch and imagine

    Practice! Musicians and athletes do it. Writers don’t often admit it, but we do, too, though maybe not as persistently as we could. I start every day with my notebook and write at least three pages, but those pages can be less than useful if I get trapped in my own reality. I need to…