Charlotte Rains Dixon

Friday Follies

So here it is, Friday again. Since I often have a busy day on Friday, and sometimes don't have a lot of time for a blog post, last week I asked for ideas about a short, useful feature to begin on Fridays. I got lots of great suggestions, because, well, I have the best readers […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 16 years ago11/03/2015

A Place You Go

Yesterday I wrote a blog post called Have a Place to Go in Your Writing. It was about how important it is to know where you are going when you begin a writing session. You can go back and read it here, but you don't really have to in order to understand this post. This […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 16 years ago11/03/2015

Motivation Writing

Have a Place To Go in Your Writing

When writing, it is important to have a place to go. For instance, Ernest Hemingway always ended a writing session in the middle of a sentence, thus insuring that he had a place to go when he started the next day. I've relearned this lesson over and over again in my own work. If I […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 16 years ago11/03/2015

Motivation Writing

What Commitment Looks Like

It is 3 PM on a glorious spring day in Portland. My cat's in the window making that weird clicking-in-the-back-of-the-throat sound that kitties make when they see birds or squirrels. It's spring break, so every normal human is outside enjoying themselves. Except me. I'm sitting at my desk, near where Captain is making odd cat […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 16 years ago11/03/2015

Creativity Writing

The Writing Process Redux

Every week my family gets together with my sister's family for dinner. We instituted this after my Mom died last year as a way to make sure that we all see each other regularly. It has been a wonderful thing, and we guard our Sunday Supper time zealously. Last night at Sunday Supper, in between […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 16 years ago11/03/2015

Writing

Friday Question

Friday is often a busy day for me. For whatever reason, lately my entire afternoon has been taken up with appointments. And I just about always go out to dinner with family and friends on Friday night, because, I'll be honest, by Friday I really want a glass of wine. And, for whatever reason again, […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 16 years ago11/03/2015

Writing

On American Soil

As of yesterday, my son-in-law, he who has been deployed in Kuwait and Iraq all year, is back in America. Home. Not home home yet, as the army has all kinds of things they do to returning soldiers at Fort Hood. But back in the United States. Everyone is breathing easier and sleeping better. No […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 16 years ago11/03/2015

Writing

Turning Your Head Around

No, I'm not going to talk about the Linda Blair move from The Exorcist. This post is about changing your mindset. (I wrote a post earlier this week about the success mindset, and this is yet different from that, too.) Specifically, changing your mindset when you are working on something that is hard. Yesterday, I […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 16 years ago11/03/2015

Authors Books

What’s Your Favorite Book?

I have a reason for asking the question in the title. I've been going on and on about how I'm re-organizing my office, down to sorting through the oldest papers. And the work continued this weekend. I'm down to a box of old CDs to sort, which I'm not entirely sure what to do with, […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 16 years ago11/03/2015

Motivation Writing

The Mindset of Success

This morning I was writing about a character. Her arc is to go from being what she considers to be a failure, to suddenly experiencing great success. So as I was tracing this movement, I started thinking about how to show what her failure looked like and felt like to her, and then what her […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 16 years ago11/03/2015

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