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Vow to Poetry

I named this post after a book.  It sat on my bookshelf for years, but I think I finally sold it in one of my fits of purging.  I loved the title of the book, maybe because people don't vow much any more and we probably should, but I never could get into the book. […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 
Novel Writing

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 […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 
Motivation

Giving it All Up

So I survived the wedding festivities.  And they were amazing and fabulous and wonderful.  And mostly what I've been doing the last four days has been wedding-related.  Thursday and Friday were all about set-up.  Saturday and Sunday were all about the actual celebration. The wedding was at 5 PM, under a blazing hot sun (thank […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 
Novel Writing

Organizing for Success

Please excuse the grandiose title.  I couldn't organize my way out of a paper bag.  My brain just doesn't think that way, does yours?  Because it is my experience that most of us creative types tend to be more towards the wafty, creative, big picture side than the down-to-earth groundedness I associate with being organized. […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 
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