Charlotte Rains Dixon

Five on Friday: Good Friday Edition

What I’m writing: Draft Two of my first romance novel. I am living proof that you can write a Really Shitty First Draft and make it into something. With previous novels, I’ve known more about the plot and characters and thus had a more polished first draft (still crappy, though). There are many places in […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 8 years ago

Fear Uncategorized

There’s This Thing Called the Delete Button

Me: early this morning, working on my novel. Staring at the words on the screen, wondering if I should add a sentence about the hero’s past. Thinking it might be too much. And then it hit me. I have a freaking delete button. It is really freaking easy to write the sentence I’m not sure […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 8 years ago

Five Things on Friday

Five on Saturday

Why I’m writing this post on Saturday: Because yesterday morning we had a big windstorm. One minute it was a nice, calm Friday morning and the next it was so windy I thought the fir tree in the backyard was going to crash into my house. And lots of trees did crash down all over […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 9 years ago

Rewriting Writing Process

On Discovery Drafts and Writing Fast

In case you hadn’t noticed, writing fast has become quite the thing lately. This is for a variety of reasons, not the least of which is that, if you want to indie publish, your fans expect you to pump books out one after another. And you can’t maintain that pace if you write slowly. Writing […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 9 years ago

Five Things on Friday

Five on Friday: Happy Places

What I did: Um…some fun things? A lot of work? This was one of those weeks when I was busy all the time and yet when I sit down to review what happened I can’t remember anything. A possible explanation for that lies here. I did make a lot of progress on my WIP, a […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 9 years ago03/31/2017

Blogging

Ten Year Blog Anniversary

Yep, as of two days ago, March 26th, it’s been ten years since I began this blog. I can’t believe it, either. There’s now nearly 1500 posts on this blog, which is stunning to me also. While I now do my best to blog twice a week, there was a time back in the day […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 9 years ago03/22/2017

Five Things on Friday

Five on Friday: Raining Again

What I’m Complaining About: The weather. Again. I’m sorry. It has been a really long winter here. My husband looked at the weather app on his phone this morning and said the forecast was for a clear day on April 9th. Sigh. What I’m Watching: In the category of We’re Old and Clueless About Technology, […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 9 years ago

inspiration Mindset

On The Importance of Confidence in Yourself–and Your Writing

On my writing retreat last weekend, I reread my novel. Yeah, that’s right. The one I told everyone how terrible it was. How it needed major surgery. How it had plot holes so big you could drive a truck through them. How the characters were undeveloped. In re-reading it I found that all of the […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 9 years ago

Five Things on Friday

Five on Friday: Back From Retreat

What I did this week: I just got back from a three-day writing retreat in Astoria, Oregon. Oh boy oh boy was it ever wonderful to have three days to focus on writing fiction. I also remembered how great it is to enjoy the camaraderie of other writers. At night we drank wine and talked […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 9 years ago

Organization

The Space You Work In

Where do you do your writing? Do you have a dedicated space for it, or are you a nomad, roaming from table to couch to bed to desk? I tend to be very settled in my writing habits, i.e., I sit at the same space every day and work at my computer. Problem is, I’m […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 9 years ago03/13/2017

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