Charlotte Rains Dixon

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 16 years ago11/06/2015

Uncategorized

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 16 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 16 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 16 years ago11/03/2015

Authors Books

My Grandfather, the Author

My grandfather, who died before I was born, was an author. I didn't know this until yesterday. Not only that, he marketed his book himself, and wrote some pretty awesome direct mail copy to sell it. (You can see some of it in a brochure he wrote in the photo above.) If he were alive […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 16 years ago11/03/2015

Writing

The Party’s Over

The last few weeks, I've been running a feature called Festive Fridays on, well, Fridays. But, I have to say, the party has been a bit of a dud. Or at least it seems so to me. The posts don't get any comments and I'm certainly not receiving breathless emails urging me to keep them […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 16 years ago11/03/2015

Creativity

Negativity, Gossip, and Other Bad Habits

This morning I was talking to my daughter on the phone, our daily call while she drives to work. And I launched into a bit of gossip about a friend we both know. Nothing terribly malicious, just some gossip about how this person is negative and bitchy, with a hint of superiority that I'm not […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 16 years ago11/03/2015

Creativity Writing

Puttering

Monday night I arrived home from Nashville. Tuesday morning I awoke with a to-do list a mile long. Lots of it consisted of emails (sometimes I think my entire work life besides writing consists of emails) because honestly, one day away from the computer to fly home and the emails multiply like rabbits. But there […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 16 years ago11/03/2015

Authors

Guest Post: Authors Blaze Social Media Path

This is a guest post from my new Nashvillian friend Leisa Hammett, an amazing author, speaker, and disability advocate. She dragged treated me to a five-mile hike on Sunday at Shelby Bottoms on a glorious Nashville day and we discussed blogging, writing and life. More on that in a future post. For now, enjoy her […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 16 years ago11/03/2015

Books Creativity Writing

Your Book Is Your Business Card

When I wrote my post last week on Why You Need a Book, I gave a somewhat sketchy list of reasons (hey, I was low on time!) and promised to write more about each one if there was enough interest. And, it turns out, there was. So herewith are more information on the first three […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 16 years ago11/03/2015

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