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A Day in the Life

6:30. Rise, stumble to the coffeepot, take coffee with me to the journal, sit and write for an hour. Best part of the day. 7:30. Check email; try not to get too engrossed in letters from friends or the latest celebrity gossip news. 8:00. Walk with my friend Sharon. We’ve been walking together, three times […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 17 years ago11/03/2015

Creativity Writing

Ah, But Here’s the Rub

A couple months ago I wrote a post titled Write Three Pages a Day and You’ll Be Happy. This command, and the post I wrote about it, are all true. I believe this statement with all my heart, because I believe that as writers, we must write regularly to be happy. However…. Upon rare occasion, […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 17 years ago11/03/2015

Writing

Why I’m Not a Librarian

I’ve been reading more lately. And thinking a lot about books lately. This is not an entirely unusual state of affairs, because any writer worth their salt reads as much as they possibly can. It is simply not possible to be a writer unless you read constantly. But I’ve been even more engrossed in books […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 17 years ago12/12/2015

Uncategorized

New Claim to Fame

I am pleased to announce a new claim to fame: this site has been banned in Abu Dhabi. My husband has just returned home from working in the UAE for the better part of the last two months. Everything there is censored–TV shows, movies (which are shown with subtitles in Arabic), and websites. So when […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 17 years ago11/03/2015

Writing

The Ghostwriter’s Booksigning

I went to a book signing for a book I wrote the other night–only another person, a kind doctor, signed the books. The cover of the book features his smiling face and this same image graces the posters that were propped all around the store. But it would be impossible for you to find even […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 17 years ago11/03/2015

Creativity Writing

Writing is Enough

I may have already written about this before–and I reserve the right to write about it again. Does anyone else have that thing where you forget what you’ve written? It’s not age, or fading brain cells, it comes from writing a lot and being so present with what I’m writing that I forget everything that […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 17 years ago11/03/2015

Writing

Listening or Waiting to Talk?

One of the best tools a writer can learn is the art of listening. Actually, learning to listen is a useful tool for any human, period. I spent the weekend in a workshop with people who had varying degrees of skills in listening, which has had me pondering the subject. As my good and wise […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 17 years ago12/14/2015

Creativity Writing

Keyword Research for Writing

In my ongoing attempts to takeover secure a spot for myself in the writing corner of the internet, I’ve been researching keywords. This fun little endeavor is part of my effort to find out what y’all want when it comes to writing and writing coaching. (Brief, but very important aside: Tomorrow is the LAST […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 18 years ago12/12/2015

Writing Practice

Writing Fiction: The Two Nows Structure

The task of a novelist is to tell a story so riveting that it will hold a reader’s attention for hundreds of pages. To do this, the author must first know the story intimately herself—which is the reason we write rough drafts (also known as “discovery drafts” or, my favorite, from the beloved Anne Lamott, […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 18 years ago01/22/2016

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A Day in the Life

Ah, But Here’s the Rub

Why I’m Not a Librarian

New Claim to Fame

The Ghostwriter’s Booksigning

Writing is Enough

Listening or Waiting to Talk?

Keyword Research for Writing

Writing Fiction: The Two Nows Structure

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