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How To Cheat on Your Writing Without Getting Caught

Are you an adulterer when it comes to creativity? I am. Here’s a brief list of some of the creative arenas I sometimes dabble in (dabble being the key word): knitting, stitching, painting, art journaling, collage, weaving, mosaic. Okay, nix on the mosaic. Somewhere in this house I have a bunch of ceramic shards but […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 10 years ago04/05/2016

Otherwhere

Otherwhere: It’s Leap Day!

Happy leap day! Are you leaping about, as I’ve seen so many people doing on Instagram? (We humans are nothing if not predictable.) Or perhaps you are still recovering from the looooong Academy Awards show last night? I’m actually doing neither. Instead I’m sitting by the TV set, which is tuned to Doc McStuffins, with […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 10 years ago

15 minutes a day Hacks

7 Productivity Hacks For Your Writing + A Last-Minute Bonus One

Did I just use the word “hack” in the title? I did. Those of us who have been around for a long time remember when “hack” was a word thrown at writers who had sold out, who wrote crap for money. But now it is more often used (some would say overused) as a synonym […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 10 years ago02/28/2016

Otherwhere Uncategorized

Otherwhere: It’s Almost Christmas!

I’ve got a bushel full of links for you today, many of them Christmas-related, because, in case you hadn’t noticed, the big day is only five days away. Awk! Excuse me while I go wrap some presents. No, instead I’ll do what I always do when I’m feeling overwhelmed: fart around on the internet. Here […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 10 years ago01/22/2016

Five Things on Friday Uncategorized

Five on Friday: Everything New

Hola! Its a beautiful Friday afternoon in Portland, Oregon, and I am posting the very first post on my new blog. Well, its not exactly new–just the design and the host (WordPress instead of Typepad). So, there’s a bit of a learning curve here and I’ll be playing around the next few weeks. But seeing […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 10 years ago01/22/2016

Tools for Writers

Cool Tools for Writers

A small round-up of items helpful for your writing… I've been writing a lot, how about you? But, um, you might have noticed I've not been blogging that much. One problem is that I can't access Typepad from the Chrome browser on my computer, and that means I have to go open Microsoft Edge, which […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 10 years ago11/03/2015

Tips on Writing

Link Round-up: Tips on Writing

While I'm away in Europe, I'm posting some old articles from the archives and some link round-ups. Today's selection is on writing tips of various stripes. Here you go: Saturday Writing Tip: Scenes Saturday Writing Tip: Observation Tips for Writing: Overcoming Resistance Tips on Writing: Writing by Hand Tips on Writing: Building Momentum Writing Tip: […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 10 years ago11/03/2015

Creativity

From the Archives: Power Writing and Creativity

While I'm writing and teaching in Spain and France, enjoy this post from April 2008 (one of my favorites I've ever written): First, though, I want to talk about creativity in general. I consider it to be one branch of the Three-Fold Writer’s Path, and in many ways, it is the most crucial. You can be the […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 10 years ago11/12/2015

Prompts

Inventive Writing Prompt Round-up #55

It is Saturday! Time for my weekly prompt round-up, with prompts taken from my Tumblr blog. Pay special attention to this one, because I'm taking a brief hiatus from these posts for the duration of my time in Europe. But there's almost 400 prompts on the Tumblr blog, so head over there if you need […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 10 years ago

Prompts

Inventive Writing Prompt Round-up #54

Ah summertime….I've been on vacation, I've been slacking…no scratch that last one, I have not been slacking since I got home. There's much to do to catch up from vacation and get ready to be out of the country for three weeks. Awk! The thought of it makes my heart pound–in a good way and […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 10 years ago

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Tag: creativity

How To Cheat on Your Writing Without Getting Caught

Otherwhere: It’s Leap Day!

7 Productivity Hacks For Your Writing + A Last-Minute Bonus One

Otherwhere: It’s Almost Christmas!

Five on Friday: Everything New

Cool Tools for Writers

Link Round-up: Tips on Writing

From the Archives: Power Writing and Creativity

Inventive Writing Prompt Round-up #55

Inventive Writing Prompt Round-up #54

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