Writing

The Weight of Things

No, this isn’t a post about diets (though if anyone has a good one, let me know).  It’s about giving events in your novel or story the proper weight.  Not everything that happens to your character will be weighted the same.  For instance, giving birth to a baby should have more significance than eating breakfast.  […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 
Writing

Reading as a Writer

Sometimes I long to read the way I used to, back in the days before I became a writer.  That was actually such a very long time ago I have trouble remembering it.  But the point is that once you start writing, all of a sudden reading is different. No longer do I just sit […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 
Writing

Being Critiqued, Part Two

Last week I wrote a post about being critiqued. Today I was talking with my friend Suzanne about this getting critiqued and I thought a bit more about it. What we talked about was that feeling you have when you are confident in your work, and in you step sprightly to meet with the agent […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 
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