Writing Events Archives - Charlotte Rains Dixon

Book Writing Webinar

Guys, a quick heads up. Jeffrey Davis is doing a webinar about writing a book on Wednesday and there are only 50 spots available. So if you're at all interested, get on it. Here are the details: THE BOOK DIAMOND: The 4 Essential Elements to Create a Book That Matters A free webinar with Jeffrey Davis […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 12 years ago11/03/2015

Community Writing Events

Report From AWP 2014

If you were on Twitter this weekend, you probably saw #AWP14 trending. If you were on Facebook, you no doubt noticed a lot of photos from Seattle (the Space Needle! Chihuly Glass! Pike Place Market!) and people quoting various writers. And if you read last week's newsletter/most recent post, you know that I was one […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 12 years ago11/03/2015

Travel Writing Events

Freelance Writing, A New Publishing Model, and Haiku (Or, What I Learned in Nashville)

Yesterday I wrote a post about my adventures in Nashville. Today, I'm writing about what you really want to know more on, some of the writing activities I partook of. Wait, that's a poorly constructed sentence, with that dangling participle. Today, I'm writing about the writing activities about which you want to learn more. Technically […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 13 years ago11/03/2015

Writing Events

Stop the Starving Artist Syndrome: Transforming Your Money Story Free Class

Have you ever said (to yourself or someone else) any of the following? * You've got to be really lucky to succeed as a writer or artist or creative person * I'll starve if I rely on my income from my creativity * I'm too tired (old, ugly, stupid, fat, uneducated…) to do what I […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 14 years ago11/03/2015

Writing Events Writing Exercises

Writing=Creativity=Play (A Post That Might Make You Nervous)

At the fall orientation for the Loft, author Debra Moffitt (Awake in the World) did the keynote speech, which was really a workshop, and a presentation the following day. She began with a meditation designed to take us into our “secret garden,” the place of sanctuary for our spirit and creativity. And after we had […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 14 years ago12/31/2015

Writing Events

The Wonder of a Writing Retreat

Writing retreats and workshops have been much on my mind lately, for several reasons: 1. I've been running around like a nut job, working on classes, coaching, traveling and other fun things. 2. Among the "other fun things" noted in #1, I've been planning my first week-long retreat/workshop with my biz partner, Debbie Guyol. (Note […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 14 years ago11/03/2015

Writing Writing Events

The Writer’s Loft at MTSU

The Writer's Loft at MTSU. That, my friends, is a link to the awesome video that Janet Wallace just made for the Writer's Loft. (Check out her blog post that also features the video.) I haven't written about the Writer's Loft in quite awhile. The Writer's Loft is the distance writing program I co-direct in […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 15 years ago11/03/2015

Writing Events

Friday Guest Post: Summer Writing Conferences

For this week's Friday Fun, we have another wonderful guest post by my dear friend Linda Busby Parker. You may remember that Linda recently wrote about the value of networking for writer, which post you can read here. Summer Writing Conferences by Linda Busby Parker Time to think of summer writing conferences! For anyone seriously […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 15 years ago11/03/2015

Creativity Writing Writing Events

Finding Faults

I'm perfect. I am. I am poised, intelligent, attractive, talented, funny, loyal, passionate. Like I said, perfect. And, already you are bored with me and ready to go elsewhere to read because who can relate to perfect? Already you are thinking, well, if she's perfect than I have nothing in common with her at all […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 16 years ago11/03/2015

Creativity Writing Writing Events Writing Exercises

The Final Top Takeaways From the Writer’s Loft

I've been writing a series of posts on what I learned at the Writer's Loft last weekend. You can find the links for Part One and Part Two at the end of this post, or just click on the highlighted words. Today's post is about the lecture that one of our favorite mentors, David Pierce, […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 16 years ago11/03/2015

Charlotte Rains Dixon

Category: Writing Events

Book Writing Webinar

Report From AWP 2014

Freelance Writing, A New Publishing Model, and Haiku (Or, What I Learned in Nashville)

Stop the Starving Artist Syndrome: Transforming Your Money Story Free Class

Writing=Creativity=Play (A Post That Might Make You Nervous)

The Wonder of a Writing Retreat

The Writer’s Loft at MTSU

Friday Guest Post: Summer Writing Conferences

Finding Faults

The Final Top Takeaways From the Writer’s Loft

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