Anne Lamott Archives - Charlotte Rains Dixon

Lower Your Standards

As I've mentioned before on this blog, I am currently doing Nanowrimo in a cheating sort of way. Cheating because the rules of Nanowrimo say that you can't have written any of your novel before November 1st, and I'd written, oh, 60 pages. But I wanted to use the energy of the event to galvanize […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 12 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 13 years ago11/03/2015

Writing

The Writing Process: Digging Deeper on Trees and in Writing

I took down my Christmas tree on Thursday night. I know I'm a bit late in getting this done, but I've had good reason. I developed a bit of a system this year. First, I removed the soft ornaments, home-made stuffed fabric Christmas shapes and gingerbread men, as well as furry bears from various sources. […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 16 years ago11/03/2015