Scenes Archives - Charlotte Rains Dixon

Begin Writing and The Answer Will Appear

I spent this just-past Thanksgiving weekend at the beach with a rotating cast of family members in attendance. It was a blast. And, I got some writing done. I woke up early every day and sat at the dining room table and wrote on my laptop. (It helped immeasurably that the house has no wi-fi.) […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 5 years ago

Dialogue Scenes Writing Process

When You Don’t Know How to Write

Years ago, as a freelance writer, I wrote a lot of articles about art. One of them was about the Makk family of artists, who lived in Hawaii. The big thing I remember from this article happened while I interviewed the Eva, the matriarch of the family. She told me how when she was a […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 8 years ago

Scenes

5 Tips (Plus a Bonus) For Writing More Dynamic Scenes

(I've been working on this post for a few days. I planned to publish it yesterday and then things happened. Like having my granddaughter here. And getting a tattoo! Yes, you can tell me how brave I am! It is wonderful! I will post a photo when it is all healed. But, anyway, here's the […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 8 years ago11/03/2015

Scenes

When to Write in Scene

Reading a manuscript yesterday, I was reminded that, while most writing teachers (myself included) insist advocate that students write in scene, there are also instances when you should not write in scene. Sometimes writers dramatize events that don't warrant a full scene. And then the writing just seems flabby. Not much is happening, but there's […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 10 years ago11/03/2015

Scenes Writing Process

An Approach to Writing Scenes

During one of the free sessions I did last month, I talked with a writer about foreshadowing and how sometimes getting it in is really clunky. Like, you might as well scream it from the rooftops, "I'm foreshadowing something important here," clunky. And since I went right from that session to working on a chapter […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 11 years ago11/03/2015