Karen Douglass, Author

Karen Douglass, Author: Prose & Poetry

“Ink Blot”

One of the many writing groups I attend is a bunch of free-writing fools, as we often call ourselves, though I don’t know that we have ever formally accepted that label. A lot of what we do is happy or not-so happy foolishness, freedom to let the words splatter onto the page and know that…

March 14, 2015
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…

March 9, 2015
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.

March 3, 2015
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…

February 21, 2015
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…

February 14, 2015