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What About This Thing Called Gratitude

As you know, gratitude is all the rage these days. I think it started a few years back when Oprah said on her show that gratitude was responsible for her success, that once she began writing down what she was grateful for, her life turned around. I've had a rocky relationship with gratitude. I love […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 15 years ago11/03/2015

Novel Writing Rewriting

Deconstruction of a Rewrite

Years ago, I asked one of my MFA mentors how to go about rewriting the novel I was then working on. As I recall, she told me to sit down with the manuscript and re-read it. Um, not the most helpful of advice. Yes, it is imperative to reread a manuscript when you are going […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 15 years ago11/03/2015

Writing Writing Events

The Writer’s Loft at MTSU

The Writer's Loft at MTSU. That, my friends, is a link to the awesome video that Janet Wallace just made for the Writer's Loft. (Check out her blog post that also features the video.) I haven't written about the Writer's Loft in quite awhile. The Writer's Loft is the distance writing program I co-direct in […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 15 years ago11/03/2015

poetry

Vow to Poetry

I named this post after a book. It sat on my bookshelf for years, but I think I finally sold it in one of my fits of purging. I loved the title of the book, maybe because people don't vow much any more and we probably should, but I never could get into the book. […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 15 years ago11/03/2015

Novel Writing

The Recalcitrant Character

Recalcitrant: re-cal-ci-trant -adjective 1. resisting authority or control; not obedient or compliant; refractory 2. hard to deal with, manage, or operate This describes exactly one of the characters in my novel. Actually he's very passive aggressive in the novel, but as I've been trying to get to know him better, he's been recalcitrant, unyielding in […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 15 years ago11/03/2015

Motivation

Giving it All Up

So I survived the wedding festivities. And they were amazing and fabulous and wonderful. And mostly what I've been doing the last four days has been wedding-related. Thursday and Friday were all about set-up. Saturday and Sunday were all about the actual celebration. The wedding was at 5 PM, under a blazing hot sun (thank […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 15 years ago11/03/2015

Creativity Spirituality

Ah, Weddings

This is going to be a short post. My daughter is getting married tomorrow. I've written about her story on this blog before, and you can read more here, and here. But let me just say that weddings are hell on the writing schedule. As if you didn't know that. I suppose planning any event […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 15 years ago11/03/2015

Creativity Writing

In the Aftermath of a Fever

Monday evening, I got sick. It had started with cold symptoms earlier that day. After dinner, I started feeling achy all over and soon I was passed out on the couch, in the full throes of a fever. Not such a big deal, right? I mean it was clearly not life-threatening and people get sick […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 15 years ago11/03/2015

Novel Writing Writer's Block

Giving Up, Or Why I Should Once In Awhile

Friday I hit the wall. As is my usual wont, I woke early (6ish), grabbed my coffee, and went to work on my writing. Lately I've been thinking deep thoughts about my novel rewrite and writing them down, which leads to more deep thoughts and more writing. I'm writing about characters, trying to get to […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 15 years ago11/03/2015

Critiques

Friday Mini-Critique: Jessica Baverstock

And for the next victim person who has volunteered to have her work critiqued, welcome Jessica Baverstock. You may remember Jessica from her wonderful guest post here a few weeks ago, or you may know her from reading her great blog, Creativity's Workshop, in which creativity herself speaks. Jessica is a writer who recently moved […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 15 years ago11/03/2015

Charlotte Rains Dixon

Tag: creativity

What About This Thing Called Gratitude

Deconstruction of a Rewrite

The Writer’s Loft at MTSU

Vow to Poetry

The Recalcitrant Character

Giving it All Up

Ah, Weddings

In the Aftermath of a Fever

Giving Up, Or Why I Should Once In Awhile

Friday Mini-Critique: Jessica Baverstock

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