Karen Douglass, Author

Karen Douglass, Author: Prose & Poetry

Tag: writing

  • Hunting Hidden Treasure

    Jonathan Waldman has written a prize-winning book called Rust: The Longest War. Waldman is a journalist and true to his profession he did plenty of first hand research about the problems of corrosion. Odd, you say, who cares, you say? We all should care. Waldman found that we almost lost the Statue of Liberty to corrosion. He…

  • The Wrong Story

    Where do stories come from? Anywhere people congregate and I can watch them. Here’s one: ASSUMPTION             A thin old man comes into my local coffee shop. He is bald, has a prominent bandage over his right eyebrow, thick glasses, a walker, a brace on his right leg. He wears a plaid shirt and dress…

  • Minion Rules for Writers

    The following guest blog comes from writer Fred G. Baker, author of Growing Up Wisconsin: Remembrances from The American Midwest. Thanks, Fred for the comic relief. Minion Critique By F.G. Baker Rod Sterling Narrates: In a book-publishing world controlled by one last corporation, it was necessary to create an elite cadre of editorial minions to…

  • Writer as Architect

    While other little girls were jumping rope or playing with paper dolls, I was drawing house plans. My grandfather was, among other things, a building inspector, and I happily tagged along while he inspected new construction in our small town. If I had been born later in the century, I might have said that I wanted to…

  • Index Cards & Buffalo Chips

    You’ve heard the adage about using the whole buffalo? Hold that thought. I read this week James Alexander Thom’s The Art and Craft of Writing Historical Fiction, in which he warns about the danger of relying on the digital storage of extensive research, and the need to retain the material after a book is published, in case…