Charlotte Rains Dixon

Supporting Yourself While Writing the Great American Novel

So, you're writing the great american novel. Or memoir. Or screenplay. You know it, but the world doesn't quite yet. So somehow you have to support yourself while you finish it. What to do? Two schools of thought: 1. The best way to support yourself while writing is to take a job completely and totally […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 16 years ago11/03/2015

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Seeing Through New Eyes

I've had a friend from Nashville visiting since last Wednesday. She's never been to Oregon before, so I've been showing her around. We drove to the beach for the day, wandered around the Alphabet and the Pearl districts, drove up the Gorge, and visited a variety of my favorite places to eat. She met my […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 16 years ago11/03/2015

Motivation Writing

Getting Up At 6 AM

Because I'm in the midst of the busiest time of my life, ever, I've actually been setting the alarm and dragging myself out of bed at 6 AM in order to make sure everything gets done. I work at home and can set my own schedule, so most days I allow myself to sleep until […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 16 years ago11/03/2015

Writing

The things That Bind You

I dunno. Sometimes, phrases just pop into my head. I think this is a writer thing, but it may happen to everyone, even civilians. The bad phrases pop in and pop back out again, but the good phrases hang around and bother me untile I do something with them. Last week sometime, the things that […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 16 years ago11/03/2015

Novel Writing Writing

Scheduling Writing

As I work on my novel rewrite, I keep trying to find the writing schedule that works best for me. To my mind, there are two main ways to fit working on a big writing project into your life: 1. Make time every day. Get up early, stay up late, write during your lunch hour, […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 16 years ago11/03/2015

Writing

7 Ways to Make Lazy Summer Days Work to Your Advantage

It's hot. It's summer. The living is easy and all that. Who wants to work? Who wants to think? Who wants to write? Isn't it ever so much better to take a vacation, to relax, lie on the beach, doze, tan…languish. But there are things to be done, words to be written! Ah, to hell […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 16 years ago11/03/2015

Writing

Another Post on Process

On Sunday, I officiated at a wedding. This is a wee sideline to my writing career that developed a few years ago when friends asked me to get ordained so that I could officiate at their wedding. One thing led to another–I think they call it word of mouth–and since then I think I've done […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 16 years ago11/03/2015

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What Holds You Up?

What Holds You Up? I got the best horoscope ever this morning. Here it is: Become independent from the things that are holding you back, without abandoning the reliable things that hold you up. This seems more like advice for living than a horoscope, and it starting me thinking. First, what are the things that […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 16 years ago11/03/2015

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Hey, I Won An Award!

Online PhD Degrees I am pleased to announce that I won an award: a 2010 Top Creative Writing Blog. The contest was sponsored by Onlinephdprograms.com, and there were 50 of us who won. The funny thing is that several of the other award winners are blogs that I read often, including What Kate Did Next, […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 16 years ago11/03/2015

Motivation

Take It Easy

The title of this post is the title of one of my favorite Eagles songs and also my new motto in life. The easier I take it, the more I get done. I have no idea why this is so. But I see clearly that the days I pour an extra half cup of coffee […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 16 years ago11/03/2015

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