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Writing

Pave the Way, or Roads to Hell

Saturday Night–A quiet evening at home spent on an obsessive Mad Men watching marathon.  (We're finishing up Season Two, so no spoilers on the current sesason, please.)   The space of the evening allowed me to think about what I wanted to work on in my Sunday-morning writing session.  I set an intention to write longhand […]

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Bring Love to It

Warning: woo-woo-ness ahead.  But it is good woo-woo-ness, so keep reading. I was writing in my journal this morning (yes, yay, I'm back to doing this fairly regularly again) when I got to a part where I wanted to write about a friend I'd seen recently.  I wanted to write not only about our interaction, […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 
Writing

Doodling

I am a doodler. Always have been.  I doodle when I sit in my critique group and listen to the discussion, I doodle when I am at lectures or readings, I doodle when I'm writing with pen and paper and stop to think. Usually, I don't think much about it.  I just do it.  Doodling […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 
Creativity Writing

Floating

I awoke at 8 this morning. Me, the dedicated early riser.  The one who generally springs (okay, it is more like a shuffle) out of bed at 6 AM and starts writing. But this week, after two weddings in the family and a summer's worth of social events,  organizing a writing weekend for the program […]

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Writing

Thus Endeth

My son got married on Saturday.  As I've written about quite a bit this summer, this was our second wedding, since my daughter had a rather large renewal ceremony in June. It was the hottest day of the year (98 degrees), and an outside wedding.  But despite that, it was a gorgeous evening and a […]

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Writing

A Newfound Sense of Freedom

My baby boy (6'2", over 200 pounds) is getting married tomorrow. We are fully in the midst of festivities surrounding the nuptials–dinner for 16 here last night, ladies lunch yesterday afternoon, manis and pedis today followed by the rehearsal and the rehearsal dinner…you get the picture.  Which is why this blog post will be brief. […]

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