Charlotte Rains Dixon

Writing Regularly: It’s All in the Preparation

I know, a post on preparation sounds about as exciting as a lecture on, well, whatever is boring to you. (I say that because what is boring to you may not be boring to me. And any example I thought of could be interesting to someone else. And this topic actually, it occurs to me, […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 18 years ago12/12/2015

Creativity Writing

Morning Routine

One of the best ways I’ve found to consistently produce pages and have time to work on my fiction is to do it first thing in the morning. I’ve even gone through periods when I set the alarm for 5 or 5:30 and spend the first two hours of the day doing nothing but writing. […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 18 years ago11/03/2015

Creativity Writing Events

Pay It Forward: Birthday Celebration

In the wonderful way that synchronicity often happens, today is my blog’s first birthday and I won a contest. What do the two have to do with each other? Well, the contest involves paying it forward. Because I won something, it is now my duty (and pleasure) to pass on a prize as well. And […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 18 years ago11/03/2015

Writing Markets

Any Craft Writers Out There?

I got this email from a Leisure Arts editor this morning and thought some of you might be interested. Here’s what Debra said: "This is an excellent opportunity for novice writers to get their first publication credit, and to work with an editor who remembers how intimidating the whole process can seem in the […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 18 years ago11/03/2015

Writing

Odds and Ends: Friday Wrap-up

Since I seem to be failing miserably at soliciting guest bloggers for Friday (anybody interested, leave me a comment) I will use today’s post as an excuse to write about some bits and pieces, mostly gleaned from Poets and Writers magazine. I generally have mixed feelings about writing magazines. They seem to range from the […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 18 years ago12/12/2015

Uncategorized

Excellence Award

The wonderful Jen at Semi-charmed wife passed on the Excellence Award to me. Thanks, Jen! Now I get to pass it on to others. I’d choose Jen because she has a great blog but I can’t because she’s already gotten in. So here are my choices (and let me just say these are a combination […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 18 years ago12/14/2015

Writing

Mindfulness and Writing

So, mindfulness and being present are a hot topic these days, what with Oprah crashing web servers as she presents teleseminars with the flat-liner Eckhardt Tolle. For those of you who aren’t familiar with him he has written The Power of Now, and A New Earth, both of which were doing quite well in sales. […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 18 years ago12/12/2015

Writing

What Crossword Puzzles Teach About Writing

A couple of weeks ago on American Idol, contestant David Cook did a video sharing his love of doing crossword puzzles. Simon, @#$%hole that he is, told David he didn’t think he’d done himself any favors with the video, implying that doing crossword puzzles was a somewhat wimpy activity at odds with David Cook’s hard-rocking […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 18 years ago12/12/2015

Creativity Writing

The Great Search for Writing Ideas

Where do writers get ideas? Ideas are like men or money–they always come when you already have plenty. The more you tend them, the more they multiple. Ideas beget ideas. The more ideas you have, the more you’ll get. Okay, I’ve repeated myself enough, you get the picture. In order to start the idea train […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 18 years ago11/03/2015

Writing

Writing Advice Through the Years

"Every magazine has its own policy and makes a definite appeal to a certain clientele. Study these and take them into consideration when offering your wares for any market." Sounds like sound advice for the free-lance writer, no? You’ve probably read something similar recently. But that advice was written in 1921 by Emma Gary Wallace […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 18 years ago11/03/2015

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