Charlotte Rains Dixon

Writing in Retreat

Tomorrow I take off for Diamond, Oregon to co-lead a week-long writing retreat. It's been a hectic week, with my cat Captain in the hospital for two days and a million things to get done. (Including packing a bag with at least five books, maybe more, in it. Gone a week? I'll need at least […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 14 years ago11/03/2015

Writing

So Go Write Already

One of my students said something about writing and the teaching of writing that resonated with me. She said, basically, that every writing teacher says the same thing in different ways. What is it that we say? The way to become a writer is to write. Period. The big secret is that there is no […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 14 years ago11/03/2015

Books

Review: The Book of Jonas

This is a paid book review for the BlogHer book club, but the opinions expressed are mine and mine alone! Any book I read (and I try to read a lot, because that's what writers do) I read through the eyes of a writer. Once you being writing, reading is a whole different experience, because […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 14 years ago11/03/2015

Uncategorized

Coaching Package Sale

Quick heads up–I'm having a two-day sale on my three-month, paid-in-advance coaching package. If ever you're considered hiring a writing coach, this is the time to do it, because I'm offering the packages for half off. You can visit the sale page to learn more about it. Just think, in three months, you could have […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 14 years ago11/03/2015

The Writing Life Writing

Balance vs. Excellence

A Post Wherein I Explore Two Approachs to Writing and Confess I Don't Know Which is Best. Let's begin with balance. It has been a bit of a massive buzz word the past few years, with experts telling us we need it in our lives and offering advice on how to achieve it. Seems it's […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 14 years ago11/03/2015

Rejection

7 Steps to Handle Rejection

I do my best to stay positive about writing. I feel lucky every day that my passion is writing, and I think most of you do, too. So even on days when I feel like I have a million things to grouse about, I try to find a way to be positive about something. Because […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 14 years ago11/03/2015

Character

Do Characters (And Sentences) Belong Only To One Story?

I was writing away on my new novel when suddenly the ex-husband from a novel I'd started and abandoned walked on. He's my new favorite character, ever, and his insistent good cheer is going to make a great counterpoint to my confused, grieving heroine. I adore this guy. But how weird is it that he […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 14 years ago11/03/2015

Meditation

A Meditation and Exploration for Your Book

I finished going through the papers from long ago that had landed on the floor of my office, but yesterday I tackled another organizing project: office supplies. Read: journals. As in unused ones. I've got tons of them. After my initial foray into sorting them, I told my husband that if I ever uttered the […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 14 years ago11/03/2015

Rewriting

Rewriting: Print Out Your Work

Sorry, trees. The topic of today's post impacts your health on this planet, and for that I'm truly sorry. But I'm rediscovering the helpfulness of printing out my work in order to rewrite and revise it. (I like to make a distinction between the two words. To me, rewriting is what you do on the […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 14 years ago11/03/2015

Distraction Writing

How to Keep Writing Through Holidays and Other Distractions

"Get back to me after Easter." "Let's deal with that after Easter." I've heard that several times this week and it has gotten me thinking about how we deal with our lives around major holidays and other distractions. Specifically, how we deal with our writing. Even more specifically, how we get writing done when holidays […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 14 years ago11/03/2015

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