Charlotte Rains Dixon

Writer’s Loft Orientation Next Weekend

Yesterday I cleverly wrote a post on my new Centro phone and sent it to be published on Typepad from my backyard. I know this is old news for those of you who have had Blackberries and Iphones for ever, but it is a major step forward for me. I'm on the road to LA […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 17 years ago11/03/2015

Travel

Testing

This is a test. No, not of the emergency broadcast system, but my phone, to see if I can post directly from it. Since I’m hitting the road on Tuesday, I thought it would be cool to figure out. The last test failed, here goes this one. Update: It worked! I sent the previous paragraph […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 17 years ago11/03/2015

Writing

Observations on a Not-So-Good Novel

I'm reading a novel published by a smaller press. Sometimes the reason why novels don't get picked up by a big publishing house (or picked up at all) is a mystery. But in this particular case I have some thoughts. Its really a very good novel in many ways–compelling subject, lots of conflict, interesting situation. […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 17 years ago11/03/2015

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Blogger in Need

You may have noticed the appearance of the above button on my sidebar. In case you are wondering what it is, I will tell you. A beautiful young woman and her husband were in a terrible plane crash earlier this month. The crash left a third passenger on the plane dead, and Stephanie Nielson and […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 17 years ago11/03/2015

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Guest Post: Writing About Music

Today's guest post comes from my Welsh friend Derek Ayre, hypnotherapist, musician, and writer extraordinaire. Visit his music site here. (My spell checker goes nuts over his British spelling, but I like it so I've left it in.) Writing About Music by Derek Ayre Music is one of the great loves of my life and […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 17 years ago11/06/2015

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Um, About Those Ads on This Blog…

I don't necessarily agree with them, okay? Google Adsense puts them up and you know Google and their spiders, they crawl around and pick up keywords and choose ads accordingly. If you have Gmail, you know how creepily accurate their spiders are–whatever the topic of your email conversation is, the ads are tailored accordingly. So […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 17 years ago11/03/2015

Writing

A Writing Teacher for Vice-Presidential Spouse

Not to be partisan here, since this is not a blog about politics, but I just learned that Jill Biden, the wife of vice-presidential candidate Joe Biden in case you hadn't guessed, teaches writing. She teaches writing at a community college and she has mad plans to keep a diary about her experiences on the […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 17 years ago11/03/2015

Writing

Sharpening Pencils

This morning I was working on my daily 15 minutes devoted to the realization that I have no logic skills whatsoever, otherwise known as solving a Sudoku puzzle, when it occurred to me that my pencils needed sharpening. Now I'm bad enough at Sudoku without having also to contend with blurry-pointed pencils. The boxes in […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 17 years ago11/03/2015

Writing

Rejection: Tempting the Fates

So, I wrote a post about Michael Phelps last week and how he used rejection and ridicule (who's laughing now, twitty teenagers who made fun of him? Huh? Huh?) to spur himself on. I mentioned that perhaps we writers could take a page from ol' Michael's book and use that same technique when we get […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 17 years ago11/03/2015

Writing

Patting Myself on the Back

And may I now direct your attention to the right of this post, to the brand spanking new sign-up box? I'm very excited to offer you a free report, 100 Questions to Jump Start Your Writing, when you sign up for me newsletter. There's good reason to do this, because it will be full of […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 17 years ago11/03/2015

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