Karen Douglass, Author

Karen Douglass, Author

  • Karen Douglass, Author
  • Karen’s background
  • Bookstore
  • Publication List
  • Karen’s Blog
  • Contact Karen

Karen Douglass, Author: Prose & Poetry

  • Danger! Danger!

    Recently, Lori Deboer, my fiction coach, suggested I go to a writer’s conference, and I dreamed of attending one. No, really, I dreamed I went to an expensive gathering fraught with critique and agents who hate writers. On the final day of that conference, I was lost in the staircase of a dormitory, asking everyone…

    December 14, 2012
  • No Laughing Matter

      Frank Gregg is a talented singer-song writer and guitar player. I could listen for hours, and have, to his music. When he’s in front of an audience, there’s peace in the world.   He married a beautiful woman and between them they raised four great kids and have a slew of grandkids. But along…

    December 7, 2012
  • “Attention must be paid.”

    This often quoted line from Death of a Salesman breaks the passive tense rule and leaves us to question who pays a bill of attention. In context, of course, it’s Willie Loman’s sons. But for those of a writerly persuasion attention comes from friends, families, readers, editors (if we are good and lucky) and strangers.…

    November 30, 2012
  • Sick of Scrolling

    Here I am, a day late and 300 words short. And why? It’s a new syndrome–scroll allergy. I’m sick of my scroll button. I’ve recently switched to a track ball and thumb scroll and it’s not good, but I stubbornly refuse to give up even though it feels awkward. The regular mouse was taking up…

    November 17, 2012
  • Practicing Persistence

    Today we have a visitor. Please welcome Waverly Penmanship, writer and all around human being. Waverly has agreed to share with us a typical day in the life of a full-time writer. She’s a bit shy so I’ll just transcribe what she has told me. Here’s what she did yesterday: Morning pages, three, no matter…

    November 9, 2012
←Previous Page
1 … 96 97 98 99 100 … 105
Next Page→

Karen Douglass, Author

Blog at WordPress.com.

 

Loading Comments...
 

    • Subscribe Subscribed
      • Karen Douglass, Author
      • Join 180 other subscribers
      • Already have a WordPress.com account? Log in now.
      • Karen Douglass, Author
      • Subscribe Subscribed
      • Sign up
      • Log in
      • Report this content
      • View site in Reader
      • Manage subscriptions
      • Collapse this bar