Karen Douglass, Author

Karen Douglass, Author: Prose & Poetry

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  • Woman’s History Month

    “What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life? The world would split open.” This quote from Muriel Rukeyser is fitting for Woman’s History Month, and some of us take it as permission to tell the truth about our own lives. Recently I joined a memoir group with the sole intention of…

  • Help me, help me!

    I have bits and pieces of a large writing project saved in Dropbox. No problems if I choose to open the files with Word, but Scrivener will not open them. Do I need to save as RTF or some other format? I’ve used Scrivener before and not had this problem.

  • Get a Group

    There are nine writing groups in my life. Each one unique, but three of them are mostly fun. I write a lot about having fun writing, because I believe that finding pleasure in what we do lets us do more of it. The three that I just referred to involve few rules and lots of…

  • Thanks again, Julia Cameron

    Getting back to the blog makes me uneasy. What, after all this time away, do I have to offer? Tea and store-bought macaroons? New words? No, virtual tea’s weak, and the words are never new, just their arrangement. But the way I am as a writer is newish. Here’s what happened. I read Julia Cameron’s…

  • ACCIDENTAL CHILD

    The print copy is ready and will be available on Amazon.com within the next couple of days. I hope you enjoy it. And BTW, it won a first place at the Boulder Writers Workshop awards celebration last week.