Charlotte Rains Dixon

Best of Wordstrumpet: Power Writing and Creativity

Welcome to a new series on creativity and how to unleash it in your writing. Today I’ll be presenting the 15 crucial keys to consistently accessing your creativity. First, though, I want to talk about creativity in general. I consider it to be one branch of the Three-Fold Writer’s Path, and in many ways, it […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 18 years ago11/12/2015

Writing

Best of Wordstrumpet: Planet of Unwritten Novels

A new idea for a novel is forming in my brain. I have to be very, very careful with it. I’ve still got a draft and a half of the current novel to finish, so I can’t do anything with this new idea yet. And, one thing I’ve learned is that I can’t even pay […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 18 years ago11/03/2015

Writing

Best of Wordstrumpet: Writing in Coffeeshops

I used to love to write in coffeeshops. Now, not so much. But lately I’ve been thinking I need to get back in the habit of going to Starbucks or an equivalent to write. We’ve got the most fabulous coffeeshop/cafe right down the street called the Daily, and I always see people in there working […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 18 years ago11/03/2015

Creativity

Earth Day

It’s Earth Day and I’m in an airplane winging my way across the country, wasting resources, specifically, very expensive jet fuel. Guess they haven’t yet figured out how to make airplanes run on bio-diesel. I’d buy carbon offsets but I just read that they are pretty much b.s. Anyway, having written a long ebook on […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 18 years ago12/31/2015

Creativity Writing

In the Department of Odds and Ends: Monday Round-up

Clearing things off my plate, or more to the point, my ongoing list of blogging topics today: 1. Last month’s Atlantic had a great article on the paparazzi and how they are changing journalism. I’ve mentioned several times on this site that I have a perverse fascination with the paparazzi, even going so far as […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 18 years ago12/12/2015

Creativity Writing

Survey Results and Winner Announcement

This is going to be a bit of an American Idol-ish post, as in, I’m going to imitate the annoying Ryan Seacrest and keep you guessing until the very end who won. As a brief aside, writing that line reminded me of something. I just heard one of the all-time best Crosby, Stills & Nash […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 18 years ago11/03/2015

Books

In The It’s-The-End-of-The-World-As-We-Know-It Department

Yes, I know its Sunday and I promised the results of my survey, which I’m not even going to bother to link to because I’ve hyped it mercilessly already and you’ve already had your chance to enter. But first, I just had to write about this god-awful book I found. I’m sorry, there is just […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 18 years ago11/03/2015

Books Creativity Writing

How to Write a Book

Yesterday I finished the final corrections on my most recent ghost-written book, which, I have to say, turned out to be a wonderful project, working with great people who communicated clearly and paid quickly. Best of all, they have more books they want me to write! While writing a bio for the Loft today I […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 18 years ago12/12/2015

Creativity Writing

Keyword Research for Writing

In my ongoing attempts to takeover secure a spot for myself in the writing corner of the internet, I’ve been researching keywords. This fun little endeavor is part of my effort to find out what y’all want when it comes to writing and writing coaching. (Brief, but very important aside: Tomorrow is the LAST […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 18 years ago12/12/2015

Writing

Survey/Contest Reminder

Quick reminder–Friday, April 18th, is the last day to take part in my survey: What Are Your Writing Problems? I’ll enter everyone’s name in the hat on Saturday and post the winner over the weekend. So c’mon, go take the survey (or even a wee part of the survey) and have a chance to win […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 18 years ago12/12/2015

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