Charlotte Rains Dixon

Why Soccer is Like Writing…Or Vice-Versa

About a month ago, I got the idea that I should learn to appreciate the game of soccer. We're more of a rugby/football type family, so I'm not as familiar with soccer. Lately, though, the Portland Timbers have been hawking season tickets and the thought appealed to me. Wouldn't it be fun to go hang […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 15 years ago11/03/2015

Novel Writing Rewriting

Deconstruction of a Rewrite

Years ago, I asked one of my MFA mentors how to go about rewriting the novel I was then working on. As I recall, she told me to sit down with the manuscript and re-read it. Um, not the most helpful of advice. Yes, it is imperative to reread a manuscript when you are going […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 15 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

poetry

Vow to Poetry

I named this post after a book. It sat on my bookshelf for years, but I think I finally sold it in one of my fits of purging. I loved the title of the book, maybe because people don't vow much any more and we probably should, but I never could get into the book. […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 15 years ago11/03/2015

Books

Friday Review: Female Nomad and Friends

Female Nomad and Friends: Tales of Breaking Free and Breaking Bread Around the World by Rita Golden Gelman I leaped at the chance to review this book because I was familiar with Gelman's first book, Tales of a Female Nomad and was happy to hear she'd written another one. To understand the premise of the […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 15 years ago11/03/2015

Novel Writing

The Recalcitrant Character

Recalcitrant: re-cal-ci-trant -adjective 1. resisting authority or control; not obedient or compliant; refractory 2. hard to deal with, manage, or operate This describes exactly one of the characters in my novel. Actually he's very passive aggressive in the novel, but as I've been trying to get to know him better, he's been recalcitrant, unyielding in […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 15 years ago11/03/2015

Uncategorized

If things look wonky on this site….it is because my web designer is doing the coding for a new design. Yay! Stay tuned.

Charlotte Rains Dixon 15 years ago11/03/2015

Motivation

Giving it All Up

So I survived the wedding festivities. And they were amazing and fabulous and wonderful. And mostly what I've been doing the last four days has been wedding-related. Thursday and Friday were all about set-up. Saturday and Sunday were all about the actual celebration. The wedding was at 5 PM, under a blazing hot sun (thank […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 15 years ago11/03/2015

Creativity Spirituality

Ah, Weddings

This is going to be a short post. My daughter is getting married tomorrow. I've written about her story on this blog before, and you can read more here, and here. But let me just say that weddings are hell on the writing schedule. As if you didn't know that. I suppose planning any event […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 15 years ago11/03/2015

Creativity Writing

In the Aftermath of a Fever

Monday evening, I got sick. It had started with cold symptoms earlier that day. After dinner, I started feeling achy all over and soon I was passed out on the couch, in the full throes of a fever. Not such a big deal, right? I mean it was clearly not life-threatening and people get sick […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 15 years ago11/03/2015

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