Charlotte Rains Dixon

From The Archives: Why Writing a Novel is a Good Thing–Even If You Never Get it Published

And here's one final offering from the archives, back in September of 2012. Yeah, so, you want to write a novel. And you're even thinking of doing Nanowrimo this year. (Nanowrimo = National Novel Writing Month, just in case you don't know, and it's in November.) But then the voices begin: The dreaded blank page. The dreaded […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 10 years ago11/03/2015

Nanowrimo

Links Round-Up: Nanowrimo

While I am out, I'm posting link round-ups of various sorts. I looked at the calendar and realized, Nanowrimo is a little over a month away! (If you don't know what Nanowrimo is, you probably won't be interested in these links. But for the record, it is National Novel Writing Month, wherein you write at […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 10 years ago11/03/2015

Mindset Motivation

From The Archives: Love Yourself, Love Your Writing

Here's one from the archives for you: We're awfully hard on ourselves, our own worst enemies. At least I am! And I suspect I'm not so different from other creatives: I'm judgmental of myself –hyper critical at the best of times. My thoughts run all over: That thing I just said? How idiotic! What a lump […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 10 years ago11/03/2015

Tips on Writing

Link Round-up: Tips on Writing

While I'm away in Europe, I'm posting some old articles from the archives and some link round-ups. Today's selection is on writing tips of various stripes. Here you go: Saturday Writing Tip: Scenes Saturday Writing Tip: Observation Tips for Writing: Overcoming Resistance Tips on Writing: Writing by Hand Tips on Writing: Building Momentum Writing Tip: […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 10 years ago11/03/2015

Creativity

From the Archives: Power Writing and Creativity

While I'm writing and teaching in Spain and France, enjoy this post from April 2008 (one of my favorites I've ever written): First, though, I want to talk about creativity in general. I consider it to be one branch of the Three-Fold Writer’s Path, and in many ways, it is the most crucial. You can be the […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 10 years ago11/12/2015

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From the Archives: 10 Foundational Writing Practices

While I'm writing and teaching in France, enjoy this post from January, 2014: My church is currently featuring a series on foundational spiritual practices and as I listened to our minister a couple of Sundays ago, I started thinking (as always) about writing. What, I wondered, would I consider to be foundational writing practices? I pondered and made notes […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 10 years ago11/03/2015

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Link Round-Up: Journaling

While I'm teaching in France, I've created a few link round-up posts, combing back through eight years of articles. Today's post is on journaling. Enjoy! This is the journal I'm writing in while wandering around Spain and France. 8 Ways to Blow Up Your Writing Brain By Journaling Journaling: Days of Future Past The Power […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 10 years ago11/03/2015

Writing Process

Parsing for Plotters: Three Methods

First off, I probably need to explain my headline. For starters, I'm a plotter, as opposed to a pantser, though I'm not a terribly serious, must-know-everything plotter. I know most of you know the difference between a plotter and a pantser, but there are always newbies among us and so I shall pontificate: A […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 10 years ago

Link round-up Novel Writing

Link Round-up: Writing the Novel

While I'm teaching writing in Europe, I'm mining my eight years of articles on writing for you. Once a week I'm posting a link round-up on a certain subject. I'll also re-post an oldie but goodie in full on a different day. And I've got a couple of new posts scheduled for you as well. […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 10 years ago

Travel

While She Was Out

I grew up partially in my Dad's printing plant. One of the many things I loved about that was hanging out in the front office, which was cleaner and more organized than the rest of the shop, but not by much. And one of the best things about the office was the office supplies. I […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 10 years ago

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