inspiration Motivation

You Can Do It!

"A #2 pencil and a dream can take you anywhere." Joyce A Myers For some reason, I've been thinking a lot about motivation this weekend. Because I think that sometimes we need it to get ourselves started.  And by "started," I don't mean just beginning a project.  I'm talking about starting a writing session.  Here's […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 
Writing Process

Got Writing Velocity?

I've been mulling the concept of momentum in writing lately, because I think I'm finally getting some in my new novel.  As I pondered, I hit on the idea of writing velocity. What is writing velocity? Here's the dictionary definition of velocity:  "the distance an object travels in a specified direction during a unit of […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 
Writing Process

Beginner’s Mind

Sometimes, as a professional writer, I worry too much about product and don't focus enough on process. Yes, I need to worry about outcomes–my income depends on it.  So it would seem to be a no-brainer to focus on it. Over the years of practicing writing every day, you get better at the game.  The […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 
inspiration

7 Ways to Meditate and Why Writers Should

I know.  Meditation. Crap.  Must we? For many of us, meditation is an item on the to-do list that never gets done, akin to cleaning the basement and scrubbing baseboards.  (And if you actually accomplish those things, please, please, please come to my house and help with mine.) Meditation is boring.  Meditation takes time away […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 
Character

7 Ways to Get to Know Your Character

No matter what you're writing, memoir, fiction or even web copy, character is everything. You've got to know your character through and through in order to write successfully. This was brought home to me all over again last week, when I spent the week with my daughter and her baby and learned, first hand, what […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 
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