Karen

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Karen’s Quotes

“People love a happy ending. So every episode, I will explain once again that I don't like people. And then Mal will shoot someone. Someone we like. And their puppy.”
― Joss Whedon

tags: television, writing

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“The imagination needs moodling,--long, inefficient happy idling, dawdling and puttering. ”
― Brenda Ueland

tags: writing

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“A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times.”
― Randall Jarell

tags: poetry, writing

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“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

tags: inspirational, optimism, perception, pessimism

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“You must keep sending work out; you must never let a manuscript do nothing but eat its head off in a drawer. You send that work out again and again, while you're working on another one. If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success - but only if you persist.”
― Isaac Asimov

tags: persistence, writing

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Karen’s Groups

Books on the Nightstand — 6095 members — last activity 2 hours, 3 min ago
A group to discuss books and topics mentioned on Books on the Nightstand, a blog and podcast about books and reading.

Fiction and Poetry Contests — 228 members — last activity Apr 30, 2015 10:51PM
A place to post deadlines and guidelines and purses and questions and encouragement re: contests and awards for fiction and poetry.

Tournament of Books — 2348 members — last activity 1 hour, 45 min ago
This book group was established for those interested in participating in The Morning News's Tournament of Books. Please do not feel the need to finish ...more

FeministSF & F — 57 members — last activity Dec 28, 2013 11:07AM
A place to discuss and recommend feminist science fiction and fantasy. Please, authors, no self-promotion in this group.