Charlotte Rains Dixon

A Big Damn Post on Story

One of the prerequisites to being a writer is curiosity. Period. You can't be bored with the world if you want to write. And the good news is that writing not only forces you to engage with the world but the act of it is so engaging, that as a writer it is a crime […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 18 years ago12/12/2015

It’s Hot in LA

I flew down to LA on Friday and at the moment I'm staying in Pasadena. It is probably in the mid to high 90s at the moment, but yesterday and Friday, the temps were around 106-107. Gee-zus. This is way too hot for an Oregon native like me, especially given that we've not had much […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 18 years ago12/14/2015

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Book Review: The Host by Stephenie Myer

So, I spent a bit of time saving western civilization yesterday afternoon. How? I got lost in a book. I've been hearing a bit of the buzz over the last few days about the cover story in this month's Atlantic, titled, "Is Google Making Us Stoopid?" (Please note: stupid is spelled that way on the […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 18 years ago11/03/2015

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Character Bios and Feeling Dumb

The other day–last week, actually–I was at a Starbucks in a suburb of PDX, working on stuff for my novel while I waited for an appointment. Specifically, I was working on character bios. I'd printed out the character dossiers I always fill in (which have spaces for things like height, weight, hair color, etc.) and […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 18 years ago11/03/2015

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Pithy Thoughts, or Lack Therof

I have, as always, a multitude of pithy thoughts on the subject of writing to share with you, but all I lack is the time to sit down and write them out. (I'm telling you, I need an Iphone, then I could share a post from where-ever I happened to find myself.) I've been out […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 18 years ago12/12/2015

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Collecting Redux

I wrote about Collecting as Fertilizer a couple days ago, the idea being that collecting is the antidote for facing a blank page. In that post, I focused mainly on the benefits of keeping a writer's journal and noting descriptions, dialogue, or anything you might want to later remember or expound on. But there are […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 18 years ago12/12/2015

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Books, Books, Books…

…and more books, delivered right to my door. In the Proof There is a God Department, I recently got on the press release list of a PR firms that deals with authors, or at least their press releases. The press releases come directly to my inbox, and here's the clincher–at the bottom of the release […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 18 years ago11/03/2015

Creativity Writing

Collecting as Fertilizer

I'm working on a workshop called Writing Abundance that I'll be presenting in September at the Path and Pen conference in Nashville. It's also going to be an E-book, for sale on this very site. Conveniently enough, all the elements of writing abundance fall into categories that all start with C. How cool is that? […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 18 years ago11/03/2015

Writing

The Week of the Niece and the Nephew

My niece graduated from high school last night. She is a dancer and she's been a member of an amazing local high school dance troupe for the past four years. Read about them here and here. Describing them as a "high school dance troupe" doesn't really cut it, because in truth their shows are breathtaking […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 18 years ago11/03/2015

Writing

Writing Affirmations

In the course of my research for a ghost-writing project today, I ended up on a couple of sites devoted to positive affirmations. Buried deep on one of them was a reference to "affirmations for writers." Hmmm, I thought, and clicked on the link. Which just so happened to be dead. But now my curiosity […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 18 years ago11/03/2015

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