April 2008 - Charlotte Rains Dixon

Loft-y Tennessee

I am in beautiful Springfield, Tennessee, where there are rolling green fields and the air feels totally different than it does in beautiful Portland, Oregon–mostly because it is warm. I’m staying at the home of Terry Price, and we are theoretically working on the Loft. No, we are really working on it–we have been chatting […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 18 years ago12/12/2015

Authors Books

Literary North Carolina: Carl Sandburg

This is a photo of Carl Sandburg’s home, Connemara, in Flat Rock, North Carolina, which is south (I think) of Asheville, not too far, and is apparently now a retirement community. I can see why–it is quite beautiful and peaceful and charming. I never knew that much about Carl Sandburg, except for the "fog creeping […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 18 years ago11/03/2015

Authors Books

Literary Asheville: Thomas Wolfe

This is a photograph of Thomas Wolfe’s grave, which is in Riverside Cemetery in Asheville, North Carolina, where I happen to find myself today. Turns out that North Carolina is a state with an amazing literary heritage, claiming authors as diverse as Wolfe, Carl Sandburg (more on him later), O Henry, and tons of others. […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 18 years ago11/03/2015

Creativity Writing

Best of Wordstrumpet: Power Writing and Creativity

Welcome to a new series on creativity and how to unleash it in your writing. Today 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, and in many ways, it […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 18 years ago11/12/2015

Writing

Best of Wordstrumpet: Planet of Unwritten Novels

A new idea for a novel is forming in my brain. I have to be very, very careful with it. I’ve still got a draft and a half of the current novel to finish, so I can’t do anything with this new idea yet. And, one thing I’ve learned is that I can’t even pay […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 18 years ago11/03/2015

Writing

Best of Wordstrumpet: Writing in Coffeeshops

I used to love to write in coffeeshops. Now, not so much. But lately I’ve been thinking I need to get back in the habit of going to Starbucks or an equivalent to write. We’ve got the most fabulous coffeeshop/cafe right down the street called the Daily, and I always see people in there working […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 18 years ago11/03/2015

Creativity

Earth Day

It’s Earth Day and I’m in an airplane winging my way across the country, wasting resources, specifically, very expensive jet fuel. Guess they haven’t yet figured out how to make airplanes run on bio-diesel. I’d buy carbon offsets but I just read that they are pretty much b.s. Anyway, having written a long ebook on […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 18 years ago12/31/2015

Creativity Writing

In the Department of Odds and Ends: Monday Round-up

Clearing things off my plate, or more to the point, my ongoing list of blogging topics today: 1. Last month’s Atlantic had a great article on the paparazzi and how they are changing journalism. I’ve mentioned several times on this site that I have a perverse fascination with the paparazzi, even going so far as […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 18 years ago12/12/2015

Creativity Writing

Survey Results and Winner Announcement

This is going to be a bit of an American Idol-ish post, as in, I’m going to imitate the annoying Ryan Seacrest and keep you guessing until the very end who won. As a brief aside, writing that line reminded me of something. I just heard one of the all-time best Crosby, Stills & Nash […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 18 years ago11/03/2015

Books

In The It’s-The-End-of-The-World-As-We-Know-It Department

Yes, I know its Sunday and I promised the results of my survey, which I’m not even going to bother to link to because I’ve hyped it mercilessly already and you’ve already had your chance to enter. But first, I just had to write about this god-awful book I found. I’m sorry, there is just […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 18 years ago11/03/2015

Charlotte Rains Dixon

Month: 18 years ago

Loft-y Tennessee

Literary North Carolina: Carl Sandburg

Literary Asheville: Thomas Wolfe

Best of Wordstrumpet: Power Writing and Creativity

Best of Wordstrumpet: Planet of Unwritten Novels

Best of Wordstrumpet: Writing in Coffeeshops

Earth Day

In the Department of Odds and Ends: Monday Round-up

Survey Results and Winner Announcement

In The It’s-The-End-of-The-World-As-We-Know-It Department

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