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Lower Your Standards

As I've mentioned before on this blog, I am currently doing Nanowrimo in a cheating sort of way. Cheating because the rules of Nanowrimo say that you can't have written any of your novel before November 1st, and I'd written, oh, 60 pages. But I wanted to use the energy of the event to galvanize […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 13 years ago11/03/2015

Time

Time and the Writer

Last week, in at least most of the United States, we set our clocks back one hour in order to return from Daylight Savings time to standard time, which means that it gets darker earlier (I personally love this) in the evening and lighter earlier in the morning (sort of). It also means, on the […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 13 years ago11/03/2015

Nanowrimo Writing Process

Writing Every Morning

I'm participating in Nanowrimo this year. Sort of. I doing it, but not really doing it. The Nanowrimo rules state you can do as much prep work as possible up to November 1st, but you can't actually start writing until the first day of the month. And I'd already written about 60 pages of my […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 13 years ago11/03/2015

Voice

Is Your Writing Voice Masked?

Yeah, so, that headline is a clever attempt to tie this post into Halloween. In case my efforts are obtuse, mask=costume=Halloween. I know, I know, a bit labored. Except that writing voice is an important subject. (Along the same Halloween theme, last week I wrote about Fear and Focus.) And writing voice is a topic […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 13 years ago11/03/2015

Fear Focus

Fear and Focus

We don't always think of fear and focus at the same time, but there's very good reason to pair them. Focus. It's what we all desire, what gets the writing done. Because the words don't go on the page without it. Fear. It's often what keeps us from focusing. The kinds of fears we writers […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 13 years ago11/03/2015

Writing Process

Priming the Writing Pump

Priming the pump–an old cliche, right? Yet sometimes cliches have things to teach us. I've been thinking about priming the writing pump lately because I've had a successful experience of it. My idea of priming the pump is doing a bit of pre-work to get a flow going. But I decided to look up the […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 13 years ago11/03/2015

Happiness inspiration

The Writer’s Guide to Happiness

What does it take for you, the writer, to be happy? This is a question much on my mind lately. What does it take for me to be happy? Does having my novel about to be published make me happy? Yes, very. Does not having time to work on my next novel as I finish […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 13 years ago11/03/2015

inspiration

On Not Knowing What to Write

I wanted to write a blog post this morning, but my mind was empty of ideas. This is an unusual situation for me. Usually my brain is brimming with thoughts to share on writing. Not today. Was it because I just returned home from Nashville last week? Because I'd finished the greater part of a […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 13 years ago11/03/2015

Community

How to Build a Writing Community

Do you feel supported as a writer? Do you have a writing buddy you can contact after you receive a rejection? Someone you can talk to (or write to) when the novel just isn't going the way it should? Do you know other writers with whom you can talk shop? If not, you're missing out. […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 13 years ago11/03/2015

Journal Writing

Journaling: Days of Future Past

I've been writing in my journal regularly again and I love it because I come up with all kinds of brilliance epiphanies. (You can read my most recent journaling epiphany here.) Yesterday, the thought occurred to me that there are two kinds of journalers: –Those who basically dissect the past in their diaries –Those who […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 13 years ago11/03/2015

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Lower Your Standards

Time and the Writer

Writing Every Morning

Is Your Writing Voice Masked?

Fear and Focus

Priming the Writing Pump

The Writer’s Guide to Happiness

On Not Knowing What to Write

How to Build a Writing Community

Journaling: Days of Future Past

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