Charlotte Rains Dixon

Five on Friday: Daylight Savings Time This Weekend

What I’m happy about: Daylight savings time coming this weekend. If daylight savings time is here, spring can’t be far, right? Can’t come soon enough around here. We’ve had rainy day after rainy day after rainy day. And that’s after so man snow and ice storms I can’t even count them. Even I, the original […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 9 years ago

Character

Writing Scenes to Unearth Character

As many of you know, I’m a fan of all kinds of novel prep, including creating character dossiers to allow me to learn more about my characters. I use them to keep a record of the external stuff (really helps when you need to remember someone’s eye color mid-way through a book) and to start […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 9 years ago

Five Things on Friday

Five on Friday, It’s March!

What I’m Reading: The Mapping of Love and Death, one of many novels in the Maisie Dobbs historical mystery series by Jacqueline Winspear. I love this book. It’s my kind of mystery–one where the sleuth’s story is almost as important as the mystery she is solving. I’m planning to go back and start at the […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 9 years ago

Procrastination

Top Ten Ways to Procrastinate on Your Writing

Honestly now, isn’t this a skill you need to learn? Of course it is! Every writer in the world needs to know how to procrastinate. I submit that it is one of the most vital skills you need to master before you can call yourself a writer. And it just so happens that I am […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 9 years ago

Five Things on Friday

Five on Friday: Almost Spring. Right? Am I Right?

What I’m Reading: The Couple Next Door, by Shari Lapena, a book I picked up on a whim from the “Lucky Day” shelf at the library. I started reading is Saturday evening after teaching all day, read after two small boys I babysat that night went to sleep, read with breakfast Sunday morning, and finished […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 9 years ago

Uncategorized Writer's Block

Blocked? Try This to Get Your Writing Going Again

Before we get started, I have a guest post today over at the wonderful Samara King’s blog. It is called Born to Be Bad, and it is about the importance of wielding your creative power. Go read it! Okay, so I promised you a tip for when you are blocked. This is so ridiculously simple that […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 9 years ago02/22/2017

Five Things on Friday

Five on Friday: It’s Still February

In some ways, the beginning of the year feels like it was an eon ago, yet, in others, it feels like this winter has been a long slog. Ah, but there are always things to distract. Such as: What I’m Reading. My library has a “Lucky Day” shelf, full of currently popular books. You can […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 9 years ago

Focus Uncategorized

Writing: Exhausting or Energizing?

A while ago, one of my wonderful clients mentioned that after a good writing session, she felt exhausted. Boy, could I identify with that, because I often have the same experience. After a particularly intense stint at the computer, I sometimes feel like doing nothing more than crawling away and collapsing in a quivering heap. […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 9 years ago

Five Things on Friday

Five on Friday: Gloomy February Edition

I know, I know, you get back what you put out so I shouldn’t be calling February gloomy. But for cripes sakes, it kind of is. I mean, we’ve got the Donald, and here in Portland we’ve had so many ice and snowstorms I’ve lost count (give me plain old Oregon rain any day), and […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 9 years ago

Authors Books Uncategorized

New Book You Need to Go Buy

You guys, just yesterday I found out that one of my favorite humans ever, J.D. Frost, is releasing a new book today. It is called, Redemption Face: The Black Room Murders, and it is going up as a kindle release for only $2.99! I loved the first two books in the series. They novels are […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 9 years ago02/08/2017

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