Charlotte Rains Dixon

Voice

Greatest Hits: Finding Your Personal Style As A Writer

While I'm in Frenchglen where there is no internet connection, I'm running an old blog post. This one was originally posted back in 2007, and I thought it was apropos here since I just wrote another post on voice this past Monday. Here it is: One of my blog buddies, Renny, suggested I answer this […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 15 years ago11/03/2015

Writing

Writing to Voice

Ah, voice. That mysterious and sometimes elusive quality that everyone looks for in writing. Agents and editors seek it and readers turn pages like crazy when it is present. Your favorite blogs have it. Your favorite characters have one. Non-fiction books are written in specific voices, and magazines have a voice keyed to their demographic–O […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 15 years ago11/03/2015

Inspiration Friday

Inspiration Friday: The Idea of Frenchglen

Next week I'm going to a place in southeastern Oregon called Frenchglen. It is little more than a wide spot in the road, with a hotel, general store, school, and a few houses, as I understand it. I wouldn't know for sure, because I've never been there. But I'm greatly enamored of the idea of […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 15 years ago11/03/2015

Motivation Writing

Taking Time to Write

Everyone talks a lot about making time to write, but do you take time to write? I have a lot of transition points throughout the day, times when I'm segueing from one project to the next, or switching from being out and about to sitting at my desk, working. At these junctures, I often find […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 15 years ago11/03/2015

Place Writing

The Power of Place

Place is important. I tend to fall in love with places the same way I fall in love with people–instantly and hard–and that figures prominently in my writing. I find ways to incorporate places that I love, like Portland, or places that fascinate me, like LA, in my writing. And then there are places like […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 15 years ago11/03/2015

Books Inspiration Friday

Inspiration Friday

I'm starting a new feature today. It is "Inspiration Friday," and because I am a right-brained creature through and through and I will get bored if I allow myself only one thing to post about, it is going to be a mish-mash. A mish-mash with a common theme–something that has inspired me the previous week. […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 15 years ago11/03/2015

Uncategorized

This is an experiment to see if I can get this embedded video to post. If it works, you should watch it, because it is the awesome Marshall Chapman, a Nashville singer-songwriter, in a video for her new book, They Came to Nashville. Plus, she sings. Okay, here goes:

Charlotte Rains Dixon 15 years ago11/03/2015

Journal Writing Music Writing

What a Writer Does: Shawn Mullins 2.0

Yesterday, I wrote about attending a private performance by Shawn Mullins. I wrote about how, at every concert that means anything to me, at some point early on I get a thrill through the very core of me that means I'm connecting to the music in a profound way. That thrill is the same impulse […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 15 years ago11/03/2015

Music Writing

What A Writer Does: Shawn Mullins Private Performance

Monday, I got an email. I and a guest were invited to a private show at the KINK Bing Live Performance Lounge. I'd actually forgotten that I'd signed up for the chance to get invited to concerts at the lounge, but was thrilled to take part of Tuesday afternoon off and drive downtown to see […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 15 years ago11/03/2015

Writing

WTD: Win The Day

After a very long and torturous journey involving a four-hour drive and then an endless plane ride (but at least I didn't get stuck overnight in Houston) I made it home at 11 PM Friday night, which was 2 AM in the time zone I left that morning. Fortunately, this was just in time to […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 15 years ago11/03/2015

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