Charlotte Rains Dixon 12 years ago11/03/2015

Self-Love For Writers

I've got a guest post this morning over at Sandi Amorim's blog. It's on how authentic creativity is self-love. Won't you check it out? Here's the site: Deva Coaching.

And I've got one more thing for you. Remember how I reviewed the Artist's Way Toolkit site? Well, the site is offfering a free promo. If you want to try the tools for a month, go ahead and register using BLOGHER as a promo code. You will need to put in your credit card info, but it's only because that's the only way the registration works–there's no tricks, no continuation after the free month unless you want it. Check it out.

But go read my guest post first.

UPDATE: The Authenticity + Creativity class is next Tuesday night! You can still register. Check it out on this page. (And thanks Heather for the reminder that I needed to post this today.)

Tagged Artist's Way, authenticity, creativity, self-love, writing

Charlotte

Charlotte Rains Dixon mentors creative writers from passionate to published. Charlotte is a free-lance journalist, ghostwriter, and author. She is Director Emeritus and a current mentor at the Writer's Loft, a certificate-writing program at Middle Tennessee State University. She earned her MFA in creative writing from Spalding University and is the author of a dozen books, including The Complete Guide to Writing Successful Fundraising Letters, and Beautiful America’s Oregon Coast. Her fiction has appeared in The Trunk, Santa Fe Writer’s Project, Nameless Grace, and Somerset Studios and her articles have been published in Vogue Knitting, the Oregonian, and Pology, to name a few. Her novel, Emma Jean’s Bad Behavior, was published in 2013, and she is represented by Erin Niumata at Folio Literary. Learn about her annual writing workshops in Europe at letsgowrite.com, and visit her blog at www.charlotterainsdixon.com, where you can find all kinds of tips and techniques on writing and creativity.

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Heather Jenkins
07/06/2012 7:47 am
Oh my goodness…was the teleclass last night??? Ugh! I missed it! 🙁
I REALLY wanted to attend it. I guess I lost track of time. Working 60-hour weeks will do that to a person.
Will you offer it again for those of us who have half a brain?
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Charlotte Dixon
07/06/2012 7:54 am
No, its next week! Next Tuesday, still time to sign up! I better add that to the post!
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Charlotte Dixon
07/06/2012 7:54 am
No, its next week! Next Tuesday, still time to sign up! I better add that to the post!
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Heather Jenkins
07/06/2012 8:21 am
Oh…whew!!! Thank you!
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Melissa Marsh
07/06/2012 9:23 am
That was a terrific post, Charlotte! Left a comment over there…I hope to implant this reasoning – self-love equals doing the creative act – into my head!
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Charlotte Dixon
07/06/2012 10:43 am
Thanks for taking the time to go over there and comment, Melissa!
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David Paine
07/07/2012 4:57 am
Dynamite post! Thinking about what we are denying the world by not loving ourselves enough goes in all sorts of directions – beyond artistic output to all of human relations. Good stuff!
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Charlotte Dixon
07/07/2012 7:41 am
Thanks, David. The older I get the more I realize how much most of us let fear stop us and how that's really an act of self-destruction.
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Connie B. Dowell
07/07/2012 12:40 pm
Interesting take on things in that post. I wouldn’t have thought about procrastinating on a creative work in that light. I suppose that, similarly, procrastination shows a lack of confidence.
By the way, I did finally do a post inspired by our conversation about query writing and revision.
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Charlotte Dixon
07/07/2012 1:12 pm
Yay! I'm so glad you got that writing done, Connie. And yes, I do believe that procrastination is linked to lack of confidence. I know that when I procrastinate, I can often link it back to fear.
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