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7 Ways to Get to Know Your Character

No matter what you're writing, memoir, fiction or even web copy, character is everything. You've got to know your character through and through in order to write successfully. This was brought home to me all over again last week, when I spent the week with my daughter and her baby and learned, first hand, what […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 14 years ago

Guest Post

Guest Post: It’s Between the Page and I, 6 Things I Learned Over 10 Days of Morning Pages

While I'm on retreat, I've got a variety of guest posts for you. Today, please welcome Resham Khiani, as she writes about morning pages. It's Between the Page and I, 6 Things I Learned Over 10 Days of Morning Pages by Resham Khiani It's 8:00am on Saturday morning. Another long, hard week in London has […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 14 years ago11/06/2015

Writing Inspiration

The Art of Seeing

A writer is nothing without ideas. Ideas are so important to our craft that I do a whole class on them. Where do ideas come from? One place they come from is observation. Which means the ability to see is vital to the writer. Here's the deal: we get wrapped up in our stuff really […]

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

Guest Post

Call For Guest Posts

I'm going to be away the last week in April (at the Diamond writing retreat I'm co-leading) and the first week of May (in Maui, for a spiritual retreat with the women of my church.) The Diamond retreat is at an old hotel that was once a stagecoach stop that does not have Wi-Fi or […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 14 years ago11/03/2015

Novel Writing Publishing

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

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

Charlotte Rains Dixon

Tag: creativity

7 Ways to Get to Know Your Character

Guest Post: It’s Between the Page and I, 6 Things I Learned Over 10 Days of Morning Pages

The Art of Seeing

Balance vs. Excellence

7 Steps to Handle Rejection

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

Call For Guest Posts

How I Finally Opened the Publishing Door

Writing as an Act of Discovery

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

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