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On Discovery Drafts and Writing Fast

In case you hadn’t noticed, writing fast has become quite the thing lately. This is for a variety of reasons, not the least of which is that, if you want to indie publish, your fans expect you to pump books out one after another. And you can’t maintain that pace if you write slowly. Writing […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 9 years ago

Blogging

Ten Year Blog Anniversary

Yep, as of two days ago, March 26th, it’s been ten years since I began this blog. I can’t believe it, either. There’s now nearly 1500 posts on this blog, which is stunning to me also. While I now do my best to blog twice a week, there was a time back in the day […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 9 years ago03/22/2017

Five Things on Friday

Five on Friday: Raining Again

What I’m Complaining About: The weather. Again. I’m sorry. It has been a really long winter here. My husband looked at the weather app on his phone this morning and said the forecast was for a clear day on April 9th. Sigh. What I’m Watching: In the category of We’re Old and Clueless About Technology, […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 9 years ago

inspiration Mindset

On The Importance of Confidence in Yourself–and Your Writing

On my writing retreat last weekend, I reread my novel. Yeah, that’s right. The one I told everyone how terrible it was. How it needed major surgery. How it had plot holes so big you could drive a truck through them. How the characters were undeveloped. In re-reading it I found that all of the […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 9 years ago

Five Things on Friday

Five on Friday: Back From Retreat

What I did this week: I just got back from a three-day writing retreat in Astoria, Oregon. Oh boy oh boy was it ever wonderful to have three days to focus on writing fiction. I also remembered how great it is to enjoy the camaraderie of other writers. At night we drank wine and talked […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 9 years ago

Organization

The Space You Work In

Where do you do your writing? Do you have a dedicated space for it, or are you a nomad, roaming from table to couch to bed to desk? I tend to be very settled in my writing habits, i.e., I sit at the same space every day and work at my computer. Problem is, I’m […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 9 years ago03/13/2017

Five Things on Friday

Five on Friday: Daylight Savings Time This Weekend

What I’m happy about: Daylight savings time coming this weekend. If daylight savings time is here, spring can’t be far, right? Can’t come soon enough around here. We’ve had rainy day after rainy day after rainy day. And that’s after so man snow and ice storms I can’t even count them. Even I, the original […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 9 years ago

Five Things on Friday

Five on Friday, It’s March!

What I’m Reading: The Mapping of Love and Death, one of many novels in the Maisie Dobbs historical mystery series by Jacqueline Winspear. I love this book. It’s my kind of mystery–one where the sleuth’s story is almost as important as the mystery she is solving. I’m planning to go back and start at the […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 9 years ago

Uncategorized Writer's Block

Blocked? Try This to Get Your Writing Going Again

Before we get started, I have a guest post today over at the wonderful Samara King’s blog. It is called Born to Be Bad, and it is about the importance of wielding your creative power. Go read it! Okay, so I promised you a tip for when you are blocked. This is so ridiculously simple that […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 9 years ago02/22/2017

Focus Uncategorized

Writing: Exhausting or Energizing?

A while ago, one of my wonderful clients mentioned that after a good writing session, she felt exhausted. Boy, could I identify with that, because I often have the same experience. After a particularly intense stint at the computer, I sometimes feel like doing nothing more than crawling away and collapsing in a quivering heap. […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 9 years ago

Charlotte Rains Dixon

Tag: writing

On Discovery Drafts and Writing Fast

Ten Year Blog Anniversary

Five on Friday: Raining Again

On The Importance of Confidence in Yourself–and Your Writing

Five on Friday: Back From Retreat

The Space You Work In

Five on Friday: Daylight Savings Time This Weekend

Five on Friday, It’s March!

Blocked? Try This to Get Your Writing Going Again

Writing: Exhausting or Energizing?

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