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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 […]

projects.angel.elizabeth@gmail.com 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 […]

projects.angel.elizabeth@gmail.com 15 years ago11/03/2015

Guest Post

Guest Post: Networking: An Essential of the Writing Life

Please welcome my good friend Linda Busby Parker to Wordstrumpet today. I'll let Linda tell you the story of our friendship, but I want to urge you to go visit her blog, because she is starting a book club on May 1st, and let me just tell you, nobody deconstructs a novel the way Linda […]

projects.angel.elizabeth@gmail.com 16 years ago11/03/2015

Friday Follies

Follies: Festive Friday 2

It's Friday again! This is going to be a brief post, because I am in Nashville. However, I couldn't leave you to your weekend without another installment of festive Fridays, now, could I? In case you have forgotten, we're designing a crazy dance party for either you or your characters. You can read the original […]

projects.angel.elizabeth@gmail.com 16 years ago11/03/2015

Friday Follies

So here it is, Friday again. Since I often have a busy day on Friday, and sometimes don't have a lot of time for a blog post, last week I asked for ideas about a short, useful feature to begin on Fridays. I got lots of great suggestions, because, well, I have the best readers […]

projects.angel.elizabeth@gmail.com 16 years ago11/03/2015

Journal Writing Novel Writing Writing

A Place You Go

Yesterday I wrote a blog post called Have a Place to Go in Your Writing. It was about how important it is to know where you are going when you begin a writing session. You can go back and read it here, but you don't really have to in order to understand this post. This […]

projects.angel.elizabeth@gmail.com 16 years ago11/03/2015

Motivation Writing

Have a Place To Go in Your Writing

When writing, it is important to have a place to go. For instance, Ernest Hemingway always ended a writing session in the middle of a sentence, thus insuring that he had a place to go when he started the next day. I've relearned this lesson over and over again in my own work. If I […]

projects.angel.elizabeth@gmail.com 16 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 […]

projects.angel.elizabeth@gmail.com 16 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 […]

projects.angel.elizabeth@gmail.com 16 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 […]

projects.angel.elizabeth@gmail.com 16 years ago11/03/2015

Charlotte Rains Dixon

Tag: novel writing

The Recalcitrant Character

Giving Up, Or Why I Should Once In Awhile

Guest Post: Networking: An Essential of the Writing Life

Follies: Festive Friday 2

Friday Follies

A Place You Go

Have a Place To Go in Your Writing

When Something Isn’t Working

Make Work

They Call it Fear

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