writing advice Archives - Charlotte Rains Dixon

The Virtues of Finishing a Writing Project

So, I’m four scenes away from finishing the most terrible Shitty First Draft ever, in the history of man, written. I started this novel on a sunny afternoon in Collioure last September when I got a sudden inspiration. I’ve been working steadily on it since then, taking pretty much the whole months of December and […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 8 years ago

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My Writing Life

So, as we all know, it is Nanowrimo, with many of us smack in the middle of scratching out 50,000 words this month. (I'm not doing it because I'm rewriting my novel but I'm cheering on everyone else who is writing!) The lovely people at Webeducator asked me a few questions about writing–in celebration of […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 9 years ago11/03/2015

Meditation Writing Habits

Deconstructing Sacred Writing Cows

I'm tired of people telling me what to do. I'm tired of people telling me how to eat. (Don't eat dairy! No grains! No eggs! And puh-leeze, no sugar!) I'm tired of people telling me to exercise. (Walk. No, walking isn't enough. Run. No, running is bad for your knees, interval training. No, you have […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 11 years ago11/03/2015

Writing

The Black and White of Writing

When I was working on my MFA, I attended a lecture extolling the virtues of not writing. (I actually think I wrote a post on this topic–ah yes, here it is.) The talk was presented by one of the MFA faculty, a prolific writer herself. Yet most of the time I exhort people to write […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 14 years ago11/03/2015