stories true as they need to be.
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Thoughts on writing, and prompts for your practice.
Learn more about Karen - where she’s been and where she is.
When and where Karen is leading groups & sharing her writing.
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Karen has traveled the arc from beginner to writer to author. She now thinks of herself as someone who writes. Process is more important than publishing. What counts is how writing changes the writer rather than the writer seeing her name on a cover. She also believes that if publishing is the goal, that goal should receive every effort to achieve. Write where the energy is calling. That’s where the lesson waits.
Compassionate Craft: Karen’s Blog
By Karen Novak:
Karen brings magical, I’ll risk saying mystical, qualities to the art of teaching writing. Karen shares the bounty of her skill and experience as gift, not dogma. I have taught with Karen, and she is always well-prepared, using her preparation as the groundwork from which writers can foster what is within them into each one’s unique poem or story, essay, or multi-genre piece.
Karen’s integrity and teaching artistry is great.
—Mary Pierce Brosmer
Founder, Women Writing for (a) Change
