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Announcing…Bookstrumpet

You may have noticed my periodic call for people who would like to become contributors to a new book review site. I am pleased to announce that the new site is live and ready to roll. Here’s the site url: http://wordstrumpet.typepad.com/bookstrumpet/ This is only the very modest beginning. Expect more to come, with additional reviews […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 17 years ago11/03/2015

Writing

Listening or Waiting to Talk?

One of the best tools a writer can learn is the art of listening. Actually, learning to listen is a useful tool for any human, period. I spent the weekend in a workshop with people who had varying degrees of skills in listening, which has had me pondering the subject. As my good and wise […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 17 years ago12/14/2015

Writing

A Big Damn Post on Story

One of the prerequisites to being a writer is curiosity. Period. You can't be bored with the world if you want to write. And the good news is that writing not only forces you to engage with the world but the act of it is so engaging, that as a writer it is a crime […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 17 years ago12/12/2015

Creativity Travel Writing

It’s Hot in LA

I flew down to LA on Friday and at the moment I'm staying in Pasadena. It is probably in the mid to high 90s at the moment, but yesterday and Friday, the temps were around 106-107. Gee-zus. This is way too hot for an Oregon native like me, especially given that we've not had much […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 17 years ago12/14/2015

Creativity Writing

Collecting as Fertilizer

I'm working on a workshop called Writing Abundance that I'll be presenting in September at the Path and Pen conference in Nashville. It's also going to be an E-book, for sale on this very site. Conveniently enough, all the elements of writing abundance fall into categories that all start with C. How cool is that? […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 17 years ago11/03/2015

Writing

The Week of the Niece and the Nephew

My niece graduated from high school last night. She is a dancer and she's been a member of an amazing local high school dance troupe for the past four years. Read about them here and here. Describing them as a "high school dance troupe" doesn't really cut it, because in truth their shows are breathtaking […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 17 years ago11/03/2015

Writing

Writing Affirmations

In the course of my research for a ghost-writing project today, I ended up on a couple of sites devoted to positive affirmations. Buried deep on one of them was a reference to "affirmations for writers." Hmmm, I thought, and clicked on the link. Which just so happened to be dead. But now my curiosity […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 17 years ago11/03/2015

Writing

I Saw a Movie

I know, big whoop. People all over the planet see movies every day. But not me. For some reason, I've not been to the movies in ages. Which is surprising when you consider that I love going to the movies. I love nearly everything about it, from watching a film with a crowd of people […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 17 years ago11/03/2015

Writing

Having Everything Right

Having Everything Right was once the name of a book by Portland author Kim Stafford (son of the legendary poet William Stafford) and I’m probably the only human on earth who remembers that name. I just remember odd things like that. And I like that title because it work well as a phrase that describes […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 17 years ago12/12/2015

Charlotte Rains Dixon

Category: Writing

Announcing…Bookstrumpet

Listening or Waiting to Talk?

A Big Damn Post on Story

It’s Hot in LA

Collecting as Fertilizer

The Week of the Niece and the Nephew

Writing Affirmations

I Saw a Movie

Having Everything Right

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