Charlotte Rains Dixon

Halloween news flash: My wonderful friend Don Williams has featured Wordstrumpet as his site of the day.  Don is a children’s book author who lives in St. John, New Brunswick, a city which fascinates me, and looks beautiful, if a bit cold.  Don has a great blog which you should go visit, and I’d say […]

Okay, this is a quickie, folks.  I’ve been writing all day, and all day the day before that, and all day the day before that, and, well, you get the idea. The bad news about all this writing is that I’m exhausted. The good news is that I keep remembering useful writing tips. Today’s writing […]

I’m not exaggerating, this is one of the most valuable tips I can give you.  I’ve rediscovered it accidentally the last week or so, as I work on rewriting my novel.  I wrote about it in the early days of this blog, in a post called Writing While You Sleep.  (a wee bonus for those […]

We interrupt our regularly scheduled Ebook presentation to remind you that Nanowrimo starts in four days. What, you ask, is Nanowrimo?  It is National Novel Writing Month and it is a kick ass way to get that novel you’ve always wanted to write jump-started.  The idea is that you complete a whole "novel" in a […]

Okay, class.  We’ve looked at the dream of freelancing and the reality.  We’ve decided traditional freelancing is not for us, because it is a pain in the rear, what with all that printing and SASEing, and standing in line at the post office, and all that fun stuff.  So is there an alternative?  Of course […]

So, I had hoped to post another in my series on Making Money Online tonight, but that isn’t going to happen.  Why?  Because I am tired.  Lame as that sounds, it is true.  I’m too tired to think tonight. The truth of the matter is that I am currently writing three, count ’em, three books.  […]

We’re talking about freelance writing in this Ebook I am writing, and specifically internet freelance writing.   In chapter one  (it feels a bit presumptuous to title a post a chapter, but forgive me, I’m a fiction writer at heart) we discussed the dream of freelance writing. So now it is time to take a cold, […]

So, I really am working on the next installment of the Make Money Writing Online book, I promise.  I was actually going to post it tonight.  But then something better came up. Jenn, over at Before I Am Famous, (and she will be) has this great thing she does.  You provide her with a name […]

What do you do if you are in the middle of writing your novel or short story and your brain needs some prodding?  How do you go about trying to expand a scene?  Say, for instance your writing teacher or your critique group has said, "more" or "go deeper" or "explain?" on your manuscript but […]