voice Archives - Charlotte Rains Dixon

Keep the Spigot Open: How to Find Your Writer’s Voice

It's eight days into the new year and many of us are looking for things. Like ways to be different, to change. New opportunities, new goals. And maybe some of you out there are looking for your writer's voice. Whenever I think about the writer's voice, I think about an old children's book called Are […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 10 years ago11/06/2015

Voice

Greatest Hits: Finding Your Personal Style As A Writer

While I'm in Frenchglen where there is no internet connection, I'm running an old blog post. This one was originally posted back in 2007, and I thought it was apropos here since I just wrote another post on voice this past Monday. Here it is: One of my blog buddies, Renny, suggested I answer this […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 14 years ago11/03/2015

Writing

Writing to Voice

Ah, voice. That mysterious and sometimes elusive quality that everyone looks for in writing. Agents and editors seek it and readers turn pages like crazy when it is present. Your favorite blogs have it. Your favorite characters have one. Non-fiction books are written in specific voices, and magazines have a voice keyed to their demographic–O […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 14 years ago11/03/2015

Creativity Writing

Does it Really Take Talent?

Consider two writers: Writer A, is unbelievably talented. She writes prose so gorgeous and true and deeply felt it makes your hear break. Not only that, she has that ineffable trait called a voice. You'd recognize her writing anywhere and drop everything to read it. In short, Writer A has talent. Scads of it. But […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 15 years ago11/03/2015