Charlotte Rains Dixon

How I Finally Opened the Publishing Door

The press that will print my book. Kidding. On Monday, I told you that a small publishing house has agreed to publish my novel. Today, I'm going to tell the story of how it came about. (It feels a little weird to be writing so much about it, seeing as how all I know so […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 14 years ago11/03/2015

Novel Writing Publishing

If I Can Do It, You Can Do It

As most of you know, I've written several novels and have been obsessively heavily marketing the most recent one, Emma Jean's Bad Behavior. Over and over again, I get the same response from agents: We love it. But… But Emma Jean is too brash. But Emma Jean is unlikeable (because she does what she wants […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 14 years ago12/12/2015

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Begin an Inspired Writing Practice

Yearning to write but don’t have a clue how to start? Got an idea for a book you’d like to begin but don’t know how? Hankering to share your thoughts with the world through a blog but you’ve never written before? Maybe what you need is a little boost. The world of writing is a […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 14 years ago11/03/2015

Ideas

The Genesis of an Idea

I needed me an idea. For this very blog post that you're reading, in fact. I have been posting on a Monday, Wednesday, and Friday schedule and that works well for me. Doesn't seem to be too overwhelming for readers and it's not so far apart that you'll forget about me. Usually, I have an […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 14 years ago11/03/2015

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How Can I Help You?

I’m happy to offer a variety of services to writers, which range from me putting words on the page for you to coaching you to put them on the page yourself. Browse around a bit and click on the links to find out what option will work best for you. Coaching Need a little help […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 14 years ago11/03/2015

Writing Process

Writing the Discovery Draft

On Monday, I wrote a post about writing as discovery. And after I finished it, I intended for that to be my last word on the subject. But then I started thinking (I do that once in awhile) about how writing as discovery impacts our works in progress. Because it does. And if you're not […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 14 years ago11/03/2015

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Start Your Novel Coaching

Got a burning idea for a novel? Ready to set the world on fire with your fiction? Or, at least, you think you are. And then you sit down to write, and…. Nothing happens. How to solve this problem of novel writing block? How to deal with the fact that one minute you’re […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 14 years ago11/03/2015

Writing Inspiration Writing Process

Writing as an Act of Discovery

Here's something I forget: We write to figure things out. We write to discover what we know. We write to uncover what we don't know. And yet. We sit down to the page and think we have to be experts. We sit down to write and think it has to come out perfect. We sit […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 14 years ago11/03/2015

Novel Writing

Tips on Writing, Prepping for the Novel, Part Five–Setting

Okay, in the last post in this series, I said it was the final article. The end, finito, donezo. Ha! Because the other day, while working on setting in my own novel, the thought occurred: I left setting out of my series on prepping for the novel. Duh. This from a woman who wrote her […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 14 years ago11/03/2015

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Blog Stop Book Tour: Utopian Frontiers

So, I volunteered to be a blog stop on the book tour for Utopian Frontiers. I can't tell you how many times I've said I'd read a book for a book tour and then deeply regretted my rash decision. Because, let us just delicately say that some books I've reviewed have been, um, […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 14 years ago11/03/2015

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