Charlotte Rains Dixon

This is What It’s All About

My embarrassing obsession with American Idol, and specifically David Cook, continues. Its very unlike to even watch TV in the first place, but here I am, watching this stupid show every week. I can't even really figure out why–Paula's a ditz, Simon is cruel and Randy has a penchant for bad slang. Plus Ryan Seacrest […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 17 years ago11/03/2015

Writing

Having Everything Right

Having Everything Right was once the name of a book by Portland author Kim Stafford (son of the legendary poet William Stafford) and I’m probably the only human on earth who remembers that name. I just remember odd things like that. And I like that title because it work well as a phrase that describes […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 17 years ago12/12/2015

Writing

Writing Notebooks

Or do you call them writing journals? Writing diaries? Whatever you call them, they are essential. I’ve recently been asked to do a presentation in Nashville at the Path and Pen conference and I’m going to do a workshop on Writing Abundance. This will essentially cover a whole lot of ways that I’ve discovered to […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 17 years ago12/31/2015

Creativity Writing

Birdsong

There’s nothing better than sleeping with the windows open, and last night was one of the first nights that’s been possible here. This morning I woke at 5:30 to the sound of birdsong. This is without a doubt the best possible way to wake up in the world, even if it was half an hour […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 17 years ago11/03/2015

Creativity Writing

Write Three Pages a Day and You’ll Be Happy

I am not the first person to say this, and I won’t be the last. And, you won’t be the first person to ignore this stellar advice, nor the last. But ignore it at your own peril, because it is the key to happiness, to writing success, to world peace, um….maybe even to natural disasters. […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 17 years ago11/03/2015

Writing

True Confessions, No Not the Magazine

Though I have written about True Confessions, the magazine, that it not what this post is about. Oh no, it is an embarrassing personal confession instead, since they are the best kind, of course. Today I was driving down busy Sandy Boulevard and came to a stop at the traffic signal. A scruffy homeless man […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 17 years ago12/12/2015

Writing

Writing Inspiration From an Unlikely Source

You never know where you will find inspiration for writing. Last night I went to a knitting lecture by Fiona Ellis at my LYS (local yarn store, for you non-knitters), Twisted, which is my new favorite place. I love knitting and stitching and sewing and anything to do with textiles or fiber arts. Throughout my […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 17 years ago11/03/2015

Books Writing

Reading and Writing Redux

It has come to my attention that May is Get Caught Reading month, which seems timely since I just did a post on Reading and Writing. Anything we can do to promote the cause of reading is a good thing as far as I’m concerned, though I don’t share the common view that there is […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 17 years ago12/12/2015

Writing

Reading and Writing

I’ve been slacking. Since arriving home from Nashville late on Saturday night (actually it was early Sunday morning) I’ve been pretty much Not Writing, which is a specific state of being characterized by a constant awareness that I’m doing everything but writing. This is because writing is such a stern task mistress that she wants […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 17 years ago12/12/2015

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