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On Not Following Protocol or Systems or For That Matter, Anything

I am my own worst enemy. This is true when it comes to writing or living. I cannot follow a system to save my own life. I come up with brilliant ideas that will make my writing easier or more organized or better and then I don’t follow them. I was reminded of this earlier […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 8 years ago

Writing Practice Writing Process

How To Get Obsessed

Writing, like so many creative endeavors, is a strange gig. We writers do everything we can to avoid working on our projects, but then when we finally get to it, we don’t want to stop. While in many arenas, obsession is not considered a good thing, we creatives tend to cultivate it. I’ve recently written […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 8 years ago

Love letters

Have You Noticed This Weird Paradox? (A Love Letter)

First of all, Happy Mother’s Day to those of you who are mothers. The best mother’s day I ever had was the one in which I took myself out to a writer’s tea for the day—leaving my young children behind. Anyway, to the rest of you—Happy Wise Women’s Day. Is that a thing? I thought […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 8 years ago05/11/2018

Love letters

Charlotte’s Monthly Round-Up Love Letter

Okay, so I probably should have done this last week, because we are already six days into the month, but I just thought of it. I’m talking about a new feature I’m trying—a monthly round-up of what’s going on in my writing life. Hopefully you will find things of use to you. Outside my office […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 8 years ago05/05/2018

Writing Habits

Writing Rituals That Work

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote a post about how, really, the only writing ritual that works is opening the file and starting to write. There’s no magic mug to drink from, or a systematic routine that will all of a sudden have you flinging words at the page. You just have to do […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 8 years ago

Love letters

The Relief of Routine (A Love Letter)

Routine. Since returning home from France a week and a half ago, I’ve struggled with establishing a writing routine. In France, I followed the same routine as I have here at home for many years: wake up, get coffee, sit down to the computer and write. Okay, I will admit to looking at email while […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 8 years ago04/14/2018

Love letters

Don’t Lose Faith in Your Writing (A Love Letter)

This week I read an ominous post on a friend’s Facebook feed. Something to the effect that people were praying for her, but there was no specific information beyond that. I messaged a mutual friend and learned that the worst had happened: my friend had died. I’m very far away from home, and so there […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 8 years ago03/13/2018

Words

My 2018 Word of the Year

So, every year I choose a word to represent the year. Actually, most years I choose three words. And usually I write a blog post about my words in December. Well, December is long gone and I never wrote the blog post. And that’s because I felt uninspired about choosing a word–or words. Usually they […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 8 years ago

Love letters

Don’t listen to writing advice (A love letter)

One day this week, I rose at 5 AM. I worked for an hour and a half—nailed the organization of a book project—and then drove to my son’s house for emergency babysitting duty at 6:30. By 9 AM that morning I’d knocked a big item off my to-do list, watched George, eaten breakfast and done […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 8 years ago11/10/2017

Morning Routine Procrastination

Go With The Flow

This morning when I got up at my usual early hour (made even earlier this week with the time switch), I had plans to work on the rewrite of my novel. Because that’s what I do when I get up early to write. It is my sacred time, devoted only to writing fiction. (Except for […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 8 years ago

Charlotte Rains Dixon

Tag: creativity

On Not Following Protocol or Systems or For That Matter, Anything

How To Get Obsessed

Have You Noticed This Weird Paradox? (A Love Letter)

Charlotte’s Monthly Round-Up Love Letter

Writing Rituals That Work

The Relief of Routine (A Love Letter)

Don’t Lose Faith in Your Writing (A Love Letter)

My 2018 Word of the Year

Don’t listen to writing advice (A love letter)

Go With The Flow

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