Member Spotlights Member Spotlight: Jackie Rene Douglas November 26, 2024 Share on Twitter (opens in a new tab) on Facebook (opens in a new tab) on Linkedin (opens in a new tab) via email Why is writing important to you and why do you think it’s an important medium for the world? I am a poet writing under the name Jenny Olson. I write about hard things, but things that need to be out in the light. As for why writing is important, I stopped writing in 1976 and didn’t write again until 2023 and now I am compelled to write. What are your tried and tested remedies to cure writer’s block? I use prompts from random words, friends, pictures wherever I can find a prompt What is your favorite time to write? I prefer mornings but my schedule doesn’t always allow that. What’s the best piece of writing advice you’ve ever received and would like to impart to other writers? Read other poets. I started writing poetry not liking other poems that I read. Now I read them to learn from. What excites you most about being a writer in today’s age? The ability to send my poems out to so many people via social media or online publications is wonderful! Jackie Rene Douglas’s Winter of Pink Flamingos, written under her pen name Jenny Olson, is out now.
