MFA programs Archives - Charlotte Rains Dixon

Strong Verbs and Other Good Words, Part Three: The Word Book

In part one of this series, I talked about strong verbs. Part two featured a rant essay about the thesaurus. And now we come to part three, which is about the word book. It could also be titled, write the word down, stupid. (For those of you youngsters, or people with short memories, I'm riffing […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 15 years ago11/03/2015

Writing

When Art Gives Up its Secrets

Yesterday, I wrote about the fabulous workshop that Darnell Arnoult gave for the Loft and talked about how she presented an exercise called "Finding Fiction in a Photo," wherein we looked at pictures (amazingly enough) for a full five minutes and then wrote about them. I can't express how important this kind of deep connection […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 15 years ago11/03/2015

Writing

The Filtering Consciousness

I was reminded of the filtering consciousness as I wrote a critique this week. I owe everything I know about it to my mentor and friend Julie Brickman. She was the first person to point it out to me in my novel. Up until then, I'd always felt that something just didn't "sound" quite right […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 15 years ago11/06/2015