Charlotte Rains Dixon

Writing Resistance

Today, I know all about Rosie’s decision to leave The View.  I know all about the storms that ravaged towns in Texas near the border to Mexico.  All about them. Why?  Because I’m supposed to be writing.  This is my morning to work on my novel.  Its so much easier to look at stories on […]

Blog for Writing Information

I’ve just begun a companion blog to Word Strumpet.  Its a place to park longer articles and will more informational and less topical.  You can find it here. I just posted my article on story over there.

A Single-Spaced World

Suddenly, it is a single-spaced world.  This thought just occurred to me as I was editing an article I am going to post on my new companion blog.  Last time I tried importing something from Word that was double-spaced I got everything all messed up, even after I’d figured out how to do it without […]

List of Writing Prompts–1

Prompts Time yourself, (10-20 minutes), do not quit writing no matter what I don’t know how she does it. I don’t know why he does it. You’re on the wrong road. The last bus left. It’s dark, it’s cold and I am hungry. I love being lost. The Ides of March. What use is it […]

On Writing Prompts

I’ve been wanting to write a post about writing prompts for awhile now.  Tonight while farting around on the internet, I found a contest based on a prompt (this is for women only, sorry guys).  You can find it here. Truth is, its kind of dorky.  But then, prompts are kinda dorky, don’t you think? […]

Writing Every Day

Last night Jonathan Lethem (see previous post for more on his lecture) talked about the one and only rule he follows for a writing schedule.  He does not write to a specific word or page count.  What he does do is write something every day, even if its only for 15 minutes.  Lethem says that […]

Writing While You Sleep

This is a photo of my pug, Igor, sleeping.  Igor is a prodigious sleeper, and its a safe bet that he is not worrying about his writing while he sleeps.  More likely he’s worrying about nabbing a chewie when he wakes up.  Or making sure someone feeds him.  (Pug has a wee bit of a weight problem though we prefer to refer to him as well-muscled.)

Igor is not worrying about writing in his sleep, but you should be.  Its a useful habit to get into as a writer.  Here’s an article I wrote about it: