Prompts

Inventive Writing Prompt Round-up #34

Here's the latest collection of prompts from my Tumblr blog, all in one place for your convenience. #233 Use the words cried, red, burp and van in a sentence.  Now use that sentence as a prompt. #234 It happens.  You look up, and there s/he is.  The phone rings, with good or bad news.  The accident occurs. […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 
Ideas

Are You An Idea Generating Machine?

Are you an idea generating machine? Ha! Me either.  But if you're a writer, you better be.  I don't think I am by nature.  But I have trained myself to be better at it–and you can too. Generating ideas is on my mind because  I'm writing synopses for my next two books.  (And by the […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 
Prompts

Inventive Writing Prompt Round-up #33

#226  Write about the worst weather you (or your main character) have ever experienced. #227  After the best weekend ever, your main character now faces Monday morning.  Does she drag her feet and stay suck in memories of the weekend, or does she let the momentum of her wonderful time carry her forward? #228  When […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 
Prompts

Inventive Writing Prompt Round-up #32

Here's the latest collection of writing prompts, taken from my daily Tumblr blog.  Happy writing! #219  She hated it when she watched a movie or read a book that she didn’t understand. And yet, those were the stories that stuck with her…. #220  "Do one thing that scares you every day."  Eleanor Roosevelt.  What would […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 
Prompts

Inventive Writing Prompt Round-up #31

Here's the latest round-up of posts from my Tumblr blog, where you can find a new post every morning (well, sometimes it's the afternoon).  Happy writing! #212 Two women have been friends for years.  One afternoon, one of them says to the other, “I have something to tell you about myself that you may not believe.” […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 
Publishing Rewriting

Gone Rewriting

I am working on a rewrite of my novel, The Bonne Chance Bakery.  And, of course, the exciting news is that this rewrite is not just for me.  Nope, I am rewriting to the notes from the agent with whom I just signed, Erin Niumata, and one of her readers.   This is all happening […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 
Prompts

Inventive Writing Prompt Round-up #30

Here's my weekly round-up of writing prompts from my Tumblr blog: #205 The fog wafted and drifted around buildings and through streets, masking and silencing everything in its path.  So it was a shock when it lifted and….. #206 Today is President’s Day in the United States, and lot of people (but not all) have the day […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 
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