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Indecision is the Devil for Writers

Indecision is my downfall. If I know where I’m going next in my writing, it is no problem to sit down to my computer and get words on the page. I can wrack up a good word count in no time. But if I’m not quite sure what to write next, forget about it. My […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 8 years ago

Love letters

On Winning (A Love Letter)

I’m all in on the Olympics this month. (Read my blog post from earlier this week about my love of them here.) And no matter what anybody says about brotherhood and world peace and all that jazz, the Olympics are about winning. So, maybe the silver is kinda okay, but the bronze. Bah-boom.* Everybody wants […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 8 years ago02/10/2018

Novel Writing Publishing Short stories Uncategorized

What’s Your Word Count–and Does it Matter?

I’ve been working with one of my clients, who shall remain nameless (Hi, Mitch!) to trim down his long middle grade fantasy. Clocking in at over 140,000 words it is, as I said, long. Meanwhile, I recently set out to write a short story. Apparently, I have a hard time writing anything short. The story […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 8 years ago

inspiration

On Writing and the Olympics

I’m ready. I’ve got two projects I want to finish, one knitted, one crocheted, on the needles, and I’ve warned my husband that we’ll be eating our dinners in front of the TV for the next couple weeks. Because: Olympics. Because: Winter Olympics. I love them. I love watching the Olympics, especially the Winter Olympics. […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 8 years ago

Love letters

Replenishing and renewing yourself–you need this (A love letter)

Let’s start off with a true confession—I stole that phrase about replenishing and renewing in the title from my friend Patty Bechtold, one of the wisest people I know. She had me as a guest on her podcast this week and that was our topic of discussion. Patty lives in Santa Rosa and I live […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 8 years ago01/19/2018

Words

My 2018 Word of the Year

So, every year I choose a word to represent the year. Actually, most years I choose three words. And usually I write a blog post about my words in December. Well, December is long gone and I never wrote the blog post. And that’s because I felt uninspired about choosing a word–or words. Usually they […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 8 years ago

Love letters

The Three Fastest Ways to Improve Your Writing in 2018

Here we are, two weeks into the new year. How are those resolutions going for you? Like, say, the one where you promised yourself you would improve your writing? Perhaps improve it so much that you’d nab yourself a publisher—or feel confident enough to publish your work yourself? Don’t despair if you feel you haven’t […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 8 years ago01/11/2018

Love letters

On Feeling Sorry for Yourself (A Love Letter)

I awoke one morning this week to an email with the headline Stop Feeling Sorry For Yourself. I don’t even know what the email was about—it is one of many (way too many) I get because I signed up for something somewhere along the line. The email stopped me for a minute. Because, right at […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 8 years ago01/05/2018

Love letters

Living the Astonishing Writer’s Life (A Love Letter)

As you read this, I’ll be finishing up a five-day stay in Louisville, Kentucky, after a conference/celebration at Spalding University, where I got my MFA. The celebration part was to honor Sena Jeter Naslund, the founder and long-time director of the MFA program, who is retiring. Sena is the author of many wonderful novels, including […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 8 years ago11/11/2017

Love letters

Don’t listen to writing advice (A love letter)

One day this week, I rose at 5 AM. I worked for an hour and a half—nailed the organization of a book project—and then drove to my son’s house for emergency babysitting duty at 6:30. By 9 AM that morning I’d knocked a big item off my to-do list, watched George, eaten breakfast and done […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 8 years ago11/10/2017

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Indecision is the Devil for Writers

On Winning (A Love Letter)

What’s Your Word Count–and Does it Matter?

On Writing and the Olympics

Replenishing and renewing yourself–you need this (A love letter)

My 2018 Word of the Year

The Three Fastest Ways to Improve Your Writing in 2018

On Feeling Sorry for Yourself (A Love Letter)

Living the Astonishing Writer’s Life (A Love Letter)

Don’t listen to writing advice (A love letter)

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