Charlotte Rains Dixon

Friday Guest Post: The Good, The Bad, and The Critical

Please welcome our first Friday Guest Poster, Jessica Baverstock! Jessica writes the wonderful blog, Creativity's Workshop, in which Creativity is featured as a real character. Creativity writes in purple ink, you gotta love it. And both Jessica and Creativity have really good things to say about writing, as you'll see when you read this post. […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 15 years ago11/03/2015

Creativity Writing

Look To Your Language

I'm not entirely certain I can explain this. But, as always, that never stopped me and I'll give it a go. As I've mentioned before, I'm studying marketing, of the internet and other varieties. My new favorite expert in this field is Lisa Sasevich, and one of the things she talks about a lot is […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 15 years ago11/03/2015

Journal Writing

The Carry-Along Book

This is going to be a short post today (I know what you're thinking–ha! when has she ever managed to write a short post?) because, ta-da, my office furniture is assembled (thanks to my long-suffering husband) and I want to spend time moving myself back in. This is actually the very first post I've written […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 15 years ago11/03/2015

Creativity inspiration

What If…?

What if…every time you did something you didn't want to do, you put the energy you'd usually use complaining about it into getting it done faster? What if…every time you were at work you acted grateful for the paycheck instead of whining about what a crappy job you have? What if…every time you failed you […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 15 years ago11/03/2015

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Ways to Help Nashville

Here's some sites I've found that are handling aid for the Nashville floods: 1. Facebook site that is sponsoring a local fundraiser, also lists online resources: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=123717580975491&ref=mf 2. Middle Tennessee Red Cross: http://www.middletennredcross.org 3. Nashville Red Cross: http://nashvilleredcross.org 4. Nashville Flood Twitter feed with lots of great info and links: Tweets by NashvilleFlood 5. If […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 15 years ago11/03/2015

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Nashville Flooding

I had a blog post all ready in my brain to post today. But I can't. I'm totally distracted by news of the Nashville flood, trying to ascertain that all my friends are okay (so far all but a couple are accounted for, and several of those I've heard from have terrible damage). Half of […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 15 years ago11/03/2015

Critiques Guest Post

More Friday Fun: Mini-Critiques

So, last Friday I wrote about the death of Festive Fridays and invited guest posts. I also invited comment on what my Friday feature should be and it turns out a fair number of you wanted examples of good and bad writing. But I can't do that. I can't do that because I don't look […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 15 years ago11/06/2015

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Office-less

This is my office. Or at least, this is what it looked like yesterday, for awhile, after I had carted piles of books and binders and files and other must-haves out into the hall (see photo below). I am, for the moment, office-less. For years, I have been working on a grotty old desk […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 15 years ago11/03/2015

Writing

The Black and White of Writing

When I was working on my MFA, I attended a lecture extolling the virtues of not writing. (I actually think I wrote a post on this topic–ah yes, here it is.) The talk was presented by one of the MFA faculty, a prolific writer herself. Yet most of the time I exhort people to write […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 15 years ago11/03/2015

Guest Post

Guest Post: Networking: An Essential of the Writing Life

Please welcome my good friend Linda Busby Parker to Wordstrumpet today. I'll let Linda tell you the story of our friendship, but I want to urge you to go visit her blog, because she is starting a book club on May 1st, and let me just tell you, nobody deconstructs a novel the way Linda […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 15 years ago11/03/2015

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