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Well Hey, Otherwhere, It’s Nice to See You Again!

I’ve been remiss in providing you with Otherwhere links for quite some time now. The problem is not that I don’t have enough, it’s that I have too many. And when I start to corral them, I get overwhelmed. Okay. Deep breath. Here we go (and forgive me if they are not in any particular […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 9 years ago

Procrastination Writing Habits

Out of Sync

I’ve been out of sync with my writing lately. (And my blog posts, too, as you may have noticed.) Off my feed, unchained from my computer, thinking about things other than my writing. I’m best when I write every day, or close to it. I get into a rhythm and it becomes just something I […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 9 years ago

Creativity Uncategorized Writing

Meanwhile, I’ll Be Busy Making S*&% Up

Writing a novel is, at heart, all about making shit up. That phrase–making shit up–became the constant refrain of my Mapping the Novel workshop at the Sitka Center last week. (It was the BEST workshop ever, mostly because of my wonderful students, but also because of the fabulous staff and the spectacular location. I could go […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 9 years ago

Fear Uncategorized

Feel the Fear And Do It Anyway — For Writers and Creatives

Feel the fear and do it anyway is one of the great all-time phrases ever. And I certainly can’t take credit for the words. It was the title of a book that came out years ago, by Susan Jeffers, and I clutched that book to me like a life raft at the time. I was […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 9 years ago

Journal Writing Uncategorized

Writing Your Way Back to Yourself

Years ago, I had the pleasure of hearing Madeleine L’Engle, author of one of the best books ever, A Wrinkle in Time, speak. I brought my sister, a designer along. L’Engle was inspiring, gracious, and fascinating and when her talk was over, my sister turned to me and said, “She makes me wish I was […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 9 years ago05/31/2016

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Mapping the Novel: A Whole-brained Approach

So, today is Friday and usually often on Friday I do a round-up post called Five on Friday in which I tell what’s going on in my life. As I started to write that post today, I realized that most of it would be taken up with information about the workshop I’m going to teach […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 9 years ago

The Writing Life

Detoxing Your Writing, Your Writing Mindset, and Your Writing Habits

I am at this moment a fool for detoxing. I’m doing a three-month heavy metal detox (under doctor’s supervision—don’t try this at home) and, at the same time (because why not), a detox designed to clean out my gut and make it healthier. I’ll spare you the gory details of it all, other than to […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 10 years ago05/03/2016

Five Things on Friday

Five on Friday: Itchy Edition

Good morning. It has been another week of lovely weather, though the record-breaking high eighties we had at the start of it were a bit too much for me. Here’s what’s been going on: The best thing that happened: Making a lion cake to celebrate my three-year-old granddaughter’s birthday. Her four-year-old cousin came to help, […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 10 years ago

Writing Habits

What’s On Your Desk

(My inspiration for this post comes from a list penned by Anne Wayman.) What’s on your desk? My computer, a small Dell laptop A cat (just about always) A yellow legal pad with notes on it Two books about writing The little journal in which I keep my to-do lists and make […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 10 years ago

Otherwhere

Otherwhere: Good Stuff

I’ve been collecting goodies for you, a lot of which came in the last couple of days. Also, please note my non-link related question at the end. Here goes: Writing Analyze your novel as if it were a dream. I could not live without the TK. On beating not-writing. How to organize your day. It […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 10 years ago

Charlotte Rains Dixon

Tag: creativity

Well Hey, Otherwhere, It’s Nice to See You Again!

Out of Sync

Meanwhile, I’ll Be Busy Making S*&% Up

Feel the Fear And Do It Anyway — For Writers and Creatives

Writing Your Way Back to Yourself

Mapping the Novel: A Whole-brained Approach

Detoxing Your Writing, Your Writing Mindset, and Your Writing Habits

Five on Friday: Itchy Edition

What’s On Your Desk

Otherwhere: Good Stuff

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