Charlotte Rains Dixon

On Regular Practice (A Love Letter Reprise)

(While I’m away teaching in France for the month, I’m running a few favorite letters from last year. We will be back to regular, new programming the first week in October. Meanwhile, if you want to come to France with me next year, click here for a look at this year’s program.) I have a […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 8 years ago08/25/2017

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On Conflict and Writing (A Love Letter Reprise)

(While I’m away teaching in France for the month, I’m running a few favorite newsletters from last year. We will be back to regular, new programming the first week in October. Meanwhile, if you want to come to France with me next year, click here for a look at this year’s program.) When first I […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 8 years ago08/25/2017

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Going back-to-school time (A love letter)

The Abundant Writer September 3, 2017 Vol 10. No. 36 Here in the Portland area, it is back-to-school time. (I know in many parts of the country this happened weeks ago.) And it is one of my favorite times of the year. (There is the fact that I’ll be spending most of the month in […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 8 years ago08/23/2017

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A love letter about having, and deserving, good tools (A love letter)

Recently, I got a new computer, the one I’m writing this newsletter on. It’s a Macbook Air, and I love it. Working on this computer makes everything easier and smoother and faster. Working on this computer makes me happy. My previous computer was two years old; a very inexpensive PC. I liked it well enough. […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 8 years ago08/23/2017

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On eclipses…and love (a love letter)

Dear Writers, Tomorrow (August 21) is the Great American Eclipse, and as you read this I’ll either be on my way or soon to be on my way to view it. Me and about a million other people—that’s how many visitors are forecast to arrive in Oregon, a broad swath of which is in the […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 8 years ago08/19/2017

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On Being Sick…and Getting Well Again (A Love Letter)

I have a fraught history with getting sick. Well, duh, who doesn’t, right? But I like to think I have a particularly difficult time with it because in my family it just wasn’t acceptable. When any of my sisters or I complained of feeling ill and wanting to stay home from school, my Mom, would […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 8 years ago08/10/2017

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A Brief Hiatus

Sometimes you just have to take a step back. I’m a big believer in honoring one’s own creative process, whatever it might be and however it works. (You’ve probably noticed that if you’ve read much on this blog.) And one of the things I’ve realized about my own process is that sometimes I just need […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 8 years ago08/06/2017

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Your Creative Type ( A Love Letter)

Last week, I was helping a client search for agents to whom she could submit her book proposal. (Fun times.) One of the titles we came across in the process is a book called Your Creative Type. Both of us allowed as how it sounded like a fun book to read. I added that I […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 8 years ago08/04/2017

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Living Your Life Purpose (A Love Letter)

I’m a sucker for a catchy headline (also known as click bait, which, funnily enough, I’m terrible at writing), and the other day I saw one that said something like this: it is why you are here. Well, I knew immediately what the “it” was, and you probably do, too. Your life purpose, of course. […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 8 years ago07/29/2017

Wednesday Writing Prompt