Charlotte Rains Dixon

Writing: Good Article on MFA Programs

The latest issue of Atlantic magazine apparently has an article about the rise of MFA programs in this country and what it all means. Actually, it doesn’t tell us what it all means because nobody really knows what it all means. There seems to be much consternation around the idea that scads more people are […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 18 years ago11/03/2015

Creativity Writing

Power Writing and Creativity 4: The Next Three Keys

Happy Monday…and welcome to the next installment of my series on creativity. You can read Part One here, Part Two here, and Part Three here. So…Monday. Some people may have awakened this morning and groaned at the thought of another work week beginning. Others may be excited and happy at the thought. Hopefully you fall […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 18 years ago11/06/2015

Writing

Reasons Not To/To Write On A Hot Summer Saturday

To write or not to write on this beautiful day? Let me detail the pros and cons: 5 Reasons Not To Write on A Hot Summer Saturday 1. Because it’s hot, duh. 2. Because I want to go play. 3. Because I have an appointment with a trainer to kill, I mean coach, me at […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 18 years ago11/03/2015

Creativity Writing

Power Writing and Creativity 3: The Second Three Keys

Ta-da: the next three keys to ceaseless creativity (Has a nice ring to it, doesn’t it? Ceaseless. Creativity. Isn’t that what we all crave? Well, besides the usual other suspects. Which, come to think of it, generally distract us from ceaseless creativity. Ah well, one cannot live by creativity alone. Though one can try. Until […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 19 years ago11/06/2015

Writing

5 Writing Rules To Break

While writing my series on creativity, I started thinking about breaking rules. (Click here to read Part One of the series, and click here to read Part Two. Part Three will be posted tomorrow.) So, today, I want to talk about breaking writing rules. In yesterday’s post on creativity, I mentioned that one key to […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 19 years ago11/06/2015

Creativity Writing

Power Writing and Creativity 2: The First Three Keys

On Monday, I wrote the introduction to this series on creativity, and it came out rather longer than I had originally anticipated. Hey, it’s a topic I’m passionate about. (Further proof of this, if you need it, is that I originally was going to present 12 Keys. But I kept thinking of more that are […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 19 years ago11/12/2015

Writing

Cross-Genre Writing

As I’ve mentioned before, I attended a brief-residency MFA program that emphasized the inter-relatedness of the arts. Over the ten intense days of the residency, besides attending workshops and lectures on writing, and, ahem, staying up late socializing, we visiting museums and went to plays and musical performances. Yes, it was way too much fun […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 19 years ago11/06/2015

Writing Events

Ernest Hemingway Lives!

One of the best places on the planet is Sun Valley, Idaho. I lived there for a few months years ago, and my daughter recently spent a winter there. More importantly, Ernest Hemingway lived there off and on and it is the place he chose to die. To commemorate Hemingway and honor his time in […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 19 years ago11/03/2015

Creativity Writing

Power Writing: 15 Keys to Unleashing Your Creativity

Welcome to a new series on creativity and how to unleash it in your writing. Over the next couple of weeks I’ll be presenting the 15 crucial keys to consistently accessing your creativity. First, though, I want to talk about creativity in general. I consider it to be one branch of the Three-Fold Writer’s Path, […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 19 years ago11/12/2015

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