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Coaching Package Sale

Quick heads up–I'm having a two-day sale on my three-month, paid-in-advance coaching package. If ever you're considered hiring a writing coach, this is the time to do it, because I'm offering the packages for half off. You can visit the sale page to learn more about it. Just think, in three months, you could have […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 14 years ago11/03/2015

The Writing Life Writing

Balance vs. Excellence

A Post Wherein I Explore Two Approachs to Writing and Confess I Don't Know Which is Best. Let's begin with balance. It has been a bit of a massive buzz word the past few years, with experts telling us we need it in our lives and offering advice on how to achieve it. Seems it's […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 14 years ago11/03/2015

Voice

Finding Your Natural Writing Voice

Voice. We all want it. We worry about whether we have it or not. We're pretty sure we need it in order to get published, yet we might not even know exactly what it is. And it's almost for certain that we don't know how to get it. So what is voice? It is your […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 14 years ago11/06/2015

Rejection Writing Process

A 5 Step Process for Dealing With Rejection

So, I'm looking for an agent. I have an offer to publish my book and in the old days this would be a slam dunk. I remember sitting in sessions at writing conferences hearing stories of people who got a contract with a publisher and were told it was a sure-fire way to get an […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 14 years ago11/03/2015

Novel Writing Publishing

How I Finally Opened the Publishing Door

The press that will print my book. Kidding. On Monday, I told you that a small publishing house has agreed to publish my novel. Today, I'm going to tell the story of how it came about. (It feels a little weird to be writing so much about it, seeing as how all I know so […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 14 years ago11/03/2015

Novel Writing Publishing

If I Can Do It, You Can Do It

As most of you know, I've written several novels and have been obsessively heavily marketing the most recent one, Emma Jean's Bad Behavior. Over and over again, I get the same response from agents: We love it. But… But Emma Jean is too brash. But Emma Jean is unlikeable (because she does what she wants […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 14 years ago12/12/2015

Writing Inspiration Writing Process

Writing as an Act of Discovery

Here's something I forget: We write to figure things out. We write to discover what we know. We write to uncover what we don't know. And yet. We sit down to the page and think we have to be experts. We sit down to write and think it has to come out perfect. We sit […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 14 years ago11/03/2015

Novel Writing

Tips on Writing, Prepping for the Novel, Part Five–Setting

Okay, in the last post in this series, I said it was the final article. The end, finito, donezo. Ha! Because the other day, while working on setting in my own novel, the thought occurred: I left setting out of my series on prepping for the novel. Duh. This from a woman who wrote her […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 14 years ago11/03/2015

Character Novel Writing

Tips On Writing: Prepping for the Novel, Part Three–Character

Your novel is on one of these shelves! First off, I know, I know. I like me some convoluted headlines, don't I? You'd think a writer would be good at firing off snappy subject lines, but alas, such is not the case with this writer. I think it's the novelist in me who loves […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 14 years ago11/03/2015

Writing

Hallmarks of a Good Writing Idea

I've been obsessed playing with Pinterest the last couple of days. I love this new site where you can create online picture boards, tagging photos from across the web. Not that this should be a surprise–you're on the blog of a woman who offers a free Ebook on creating Vision Boards, after all. But what […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 14 years ago11/03/2015

Charlotte Rains Dixon

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Coaching Package Sale

Balance vs. Excellence

Finding Your Natural Writing Voice

A 5 Step Process for Dealing With Rejection

How I Finally Opened the Publishing Door

If I Can Do It, You Can Do It

Writing as an Act of Discovery

Tips on Writing, Prepping for the Novel, Part Five–Setting

Tips On Writing: Prepping for the Novel, Part Three–Character

Hallmarks of a Good Writing Idea

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