Charlotte Rains Dixon

Five on Friday: Sunshine Through my Window

Fingers crossed for a nice weekend! Here’s what’s going on: What I’m Reading: Same books as last week, which I can’t divulge, because I’m reading for a contest. But I also have occasion to load up my Kindle with Ebooks because I read while baby George naps on my chest. So I have been perusing […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 9 years ago

Novel Writing

When Narrative Summary Takes Over

Hi there. Yes, I know it is Friday and for the last couple of months I’ve consistently been cranking out Five on Friday posts, wherein I cheerily catch you up on what I’ve been doing all week and drop in a few brilliant helpful writing tidbits. And today I started out with the same intention […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 9 years ago

Do That Thing

Are You Doing Your Thing?

My writing has been going well lately. Bliss! When it is going well, I find it much easier to do. I get up early, grab a cup of coffee and go right to my computer. I scan my emails (just to make sure there’s nothing that need my immediate attention, which is load of crap […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 9 years ago04/19/2017

Five Things on Friday

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 9 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 9 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

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