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What’s Your Favorite Book?

I have a reason for asking the question in the title. I've been going on and on about how I'm re-organizing my office, down to sorting through the oldest papers. And the work continued this weekend. I'm down to a box of old CDs to sort, which I'm not entirely sure what to do with, […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 15 years ago11/03/2015

Motivation Writing

The Mindset of Success

This morning I was writing about a character. Her arc is to go from being what she considers to be a failure, to suddenly experiencing great success. So as I was tracing this movement, I started thinking about how to show what her failure looked like and felt like to her, and then what her […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 15 years ago11/03/2015

Coaching Creativity Writing

When Something Isn’t Working

When something isn't working, there's a reason. I know. Duh. But how many times have you sat at your computer, beating your head against your desk, trying to make something work that isn't working? Trying to force a character to do something she doesn't want to do, or writing a scene in a location that […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 15 years ago11/03/2015

Coaching Writing

Make Work

"Make work" is my all-purpose notation to myself that I use for both notes and on manuscripts. It is shorthand for "Make it work," and a very handy two words. If I'm writing notes, and they are a bit sketchy, I add, "make work," because I know in my brain what I mean, I just […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 15 years ago11/03/2015

Creativity Writing

My Old Friend Paralysis

Yesterday, all writing and other activities came to a screeching halt. This happened suddenly. One minute I was in the middle of a writing session. The next minute I was paralyzed. I realized that everything I had written was complete and total crap. And that there was no use writing anymore, ever, for the rest […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 15 years ago11/03/2015

Motivation Writing

No Longer Allowed

Attention, please. The following are no longer allowed during a writing session: 1. Whining 2. Worrying about the quality of your work 3. Obsessing over the odds for getting your work published 4. Wondering what others will think of your writing 5. Deciding that writing is a colossal waste of your time, because, really, what […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 15 years ago11/03/2015

Creativity Writing

They Call it Fear

First there was the story I read online about how the Northwest, including Portland, could expect a major earthquake of the sort that just decimated Chile sometime in the next 50 years. I hate earthquakes. I expect the earth beneath my feet to stay steady, thank you very much. Then I watched a little bit […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 15 years ago11/03/2015

Creativity Writing

The Romantic Ideal of Writing

The traditional writing life: you write a novel, submit it to an agent, it gets sold to a good publishing house and they do a lot of work to market you. Ads in print publications, a book tour, readings and signings galore. If you are a literary type, you might take a job teaching writing […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 15 years ago11/03/2015

Creativity

Embracing Spring

My apologies to those of you currently buried under snow, or digging out from your latest blizzard, but here in Portland, we've had one of the warmest winters on record. The rhodies, daffodils and crocus have been blooming for a couple weeks now and the temps are regularly reaching 60 degrees. We've even had us […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 15 years ago11/03/2015

Books

Transparency, or a Book Review

Book Review: Write Right Online by Andy Hayes Transparency is a big buzz word around the internet these days.Everyone is supposed to be transparent and tell their audience every single little thing about them. I like this trend. At least I like it in others. But when it is time for me to be transparent, […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 15 years ago11/03/2015

Charlotte Rains Dixon

Tag: creativity

What’s Your Favorite Book?

The Mindset of Success

When Something Isn’t Working

Make Work

My Old Friend Paralysis

No Longer Allowed

They Call it Fear

The Romantic Ideal of Writing

Embracing Spring

Transparency, or a Book Review

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