creative Archives - Charlotte Rains Dixon

You’re a Creative Person, Right?

Creative vs. Non-Creative People In which I attempt to answer the question, is there such a thing as a non-creative person? Years ago, when I was a fledgling writer still getting used to becoming enraptured in the throes of the creative process, I developed a theory: The world was divided into creative and non-creative people. […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 9 years ago

Story

Two Aspects of Story Writing

Hilda? Here, for your consideration, two aspects of storytelling. 1. Parsing the story. This is, of course, most often the purview of the rough draft, or shitty first draft, or discovery draft, or whatever you want to call it. Hilda would do. (I think I'll start giving my drafts names. Why not?) Although it must […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 10 years ago11/03/2015

Writing Exercises

Creation and Implementation: Two Distinct Stages of the Process

Sometimes you gotta spend most of your time writing, and some times you gotta spend most of your time doing all the stuff that surrounds it. This is something all creatives (do we like calling us that? I can't decide) struggle with at times. And I believe if you can master the art of separating […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 10 years ago11/03/2015