Karen Douglass, Author

Karen Douglass, Author: Prose & Poetry

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  • White Rabbit Writing

    Is there a writer alive who has not hurried like the rabbit in Alice in Wonderland to meet a deadline? Recently I came across a call for 100 pages of a memoir in progress. Aha! Just what I needed to motivate me to type faster on the memoir I was creating. I set aside other…

  • My Saturday Morning

    My Saturday Morning

     I’m at the coffee shop inside the Denver Art Museum, writing. Yes, I’m a coffee-shop writer, intrigued by the strangers nearby. I have, of course, coffee, and a chocolate muffin, and I’m ready to write anywhere. Writers will write on anything–bar napkins, index cards, the back of a grocery receipt, a phone. I carry a…

  • Lost in Bookland

    It’s been a long time since I spent time here. So where have I been? Oh, mostly in my chair, chocolate nearby, and a book in my hands. Just what I need with the onset of winter–technically a ways off, but last week we had a doozy on the Front Range of Colorado–cold, snowy, good…

  • How Do I Do? Very well, thanks.

    Natalie Goldberg says to free write until you get past monkey mind and she’s right. Then again, for decades she’s been right about writing. So, thanks to her I’ve altered my morning writing sessions. For years I’ve clung to Julia Cameron’s The Artist’s Way and filled three pages, much of which was truly monkey mind,…

  • Read/Recite

    As part of an active community of poets, I read and hear all sorts of poetry at open mics and public readings, where poets read their work with varying results. Some read from a book, a reassuring thing, as a published book suggests that the work that has been vetted, edited, worked on diligently. Sometimes…