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Promptitude: Super Moon Edition

In case you haven't heard, tonight we're having a super moon. There's all kinds of craziness going on around this phenomenon, but basically the earth's orbit is the closest its been to the moon in 18 years. I'm a moon baby, born under the sign of Cancer, and I've always felt the ebb and flow […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 15 years ago11/03/2015

Motivation

Expect Nothing, Accept Everything…and Show Up

One of the recent phrases of wisdom I've been attempting to follow is this: Expect nothing, accept everything. To which I add: and show up. I'm not sure where the original quote came from. I heard it at church. It resonates with me because it has taken me a long time to grasp the "expect […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 15 years ago11/03/2015

Brain Vacay: Catching Up on Odds and Ends

Its somber at my house with the death of my sweet little pug Ally over the weekend. My brain has been elsewhere. (I wrote about dealing with distraction like this on Friday and I wrote about Ally's death on Saturday, mostly in the comments section.) Since my brain seems to be taking a bit of […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 15 years ago11/03/2015

Prompts Pugs

Promptitude: Departing for Another World

A friend wrote and told me she seems to be surrounded with people who are having their own personal earthquakes and tsunamis. I, appparently am no different. So if you are not in the mood for a short, downer post, click away now. I'll forgive you. I was going to do a prompt this week […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 15 years ago11/03/2015

Prompts

Promptitude: What Makes a Good Prompt?

This is post #2 on those little devils, prompts. (Read post #1 here.) Question: what makes a good prompt? Answer: whatever gets you writing. When you're a writer, its all in service to the writing. If you have a choice between doing almost anything and writing, you'll choose writing. If you have a limited time […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 15 years ago11/03/2015

Novel Writing

Novel Prep Nuts and Bolts

And so today we come to the nuts and bolts of prepping for a novel, the third in a series. (And probably the last, but I feel my brain reaching for more, so maybe not, stay tuned.) You can read the first two posts here and here, and I've also got them listed at the […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 15 years ago11/03/2015

Novel Writing

How to Prep To Write A Novel

So, you've decided to take the plunge and write a novel. Perhaps you might be wondering where to begin. Or if you are taking the plunge for a second or third or fourth time, maybe this time you've vowed to get organized ahead of time so you don't spend weeks going down fruitless plot paths. […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 15 years ago11/03/2015

Novel Writing

Prepping to Write a Novel

When it comes to fiction writing, lately I've been struggling. First I was totally committed to writing one novel. Oh, but no. Then I decided that I absolutely, positively was in love with a different idea. Until I desperately needed to work on yet a third idea, the best one yet! This has been my […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 15 years ago11/03/2015

Prompts

Saturday Promptitude

Promptitude: How Webster's defines it: The quality or habit of being prompt, promptness. How I define it: The habit of using prompts to inspire your writing. Prompts. Quit your sneering right now. Yes, I know that you have a love-hate relationship with them. I do, too. Yes, I also know that sometimes writing to prompts […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 15 years ago11/03/2015

Writing Abundance

The Fine Art of Cultivation

The sun slants in my office window, turning the leaves of the orchids on the desk translucent. Though the glass, I see a thicket of dead branches with a small brown bird hopping through it. The tips of the bamboo plant wave in a stiff breeze. Further out are the roofs of neighboring houses, barren […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 15 years ago11/03/2015

Charlotte Rains Dixon

Tag: creativity

Promptitude: Super Moon Edition

Expect Nothing, Accept Everything…and Show Up

Brain Vacay: Catching Up on Odds and Ends

Promptitude: Departing for Another World

Promptitude: What Makes a Good Prompt?

Novel Prep Nuts and Bolts

How to Prep To Write A Novel

Prepping to Write a Novel

Saturday Promptitude

The Fine Art of Cultivation

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