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Short and Sweet or SEO?

We all know Seth Godin is a god (its even part of his name).  I’ve been reading his free e-books on blogging and making lenses on Squidoo.  (Go here to find them.) Seth talks about making blog entries short and sweet.  Good strategy.  What I find very interesting, though, is the contrast between the blog-writing […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 
Books

Novels of the Civil War

Is it just me, or do there seem to be a lot of novels coming out about the Civil War these days?  There’s a story on yahoo today about Robert Olmstead’s latest novel, called Coal Black Horse. You can read it here.  Maybe its just that I am now noticing them.  Until recently, they weren’t […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 
Writing

Handling Rejection

Every writer gets used to dealing with rejection.  It gradually gets easier.  Sort of. Okay, I’m lying.  Here’s a handy dandy guide on handling that I’ve put together: 1.  First, you cry.  As the first tear leaks from your eye to roll down your cheek, you feel like a wimp.  And writers are not wimps.  […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 
Books

The Road

Oprah chose Cormac McCarthy’s novel, The Road, for her next book club selection.  And, she succeeded in convincing McCarthy to give her an interview–his second in 40 years. I’m kinda a big fan of both–though I’m more a fan of McCarthy in theory than in reality because I can’t stand to read his books.  Lewis […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 
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Beginnings

My friend Sue (one of my Nashville peeps) and I have both recently started re-writing our novels.  Today she emailed me and asked what I knew about first chapters.   I told her one thing I know about first chapters is that they are hard–hard because a first chapter is the foundation for everything that is […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 
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