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Five on Friday: Everything New

Hola! Its a beautiful Friday afternoon in Portland, Oregon, and I am posting the very first post on my new blog. Well, its not exactly new–just the design and the host (WordPress instead of Typepad). So, there’s a bit of a learning curve here and I’ll be playing around the next few weeks. But seeing […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 10 years ago01/22/2016

Otherwhere

Otherwhere: Thus Beginneth

Happy Halloween! And so we come to the beginning of a new blog feature called Otherwhere. (It's a word, for real, I found it on Thesaurus.com.) In my travels around the internet, I find lots of interesting things that I post on Twitter, or once in a blue moon, on Facebook. But I've realized that […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 10 years ago11/03/2015

Five Things on Friday

Five on Friday: Happy Halloween

It is a wonderful rainy, blustery day here in Portland as I write this–my favorite, at least for once in awhile. And here’s what’s going on: What I’m Reading: Making Piece: A Memoir of Love, Loss and Pie and The Untethered Soul, both of which I’m pretty sure I was reading last week. Things have […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 10 years ago11/03/2015

Focus Tools for Writers

My BEST Writing Tip, I Promise

Hemingway knew it and used it. I've expounded on it numerous times, including recently. (That juxtaposition of sentences makes it appear that I might be comparing myself to Hemingway, to which I say: bwahahahaha). It is the single most helpful tip for you to get words on the page, and here it is: KNOW WHERE […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 10 years ago11/03/2015

Fear

Five on Friday: What’s Going On

What Who I'm in Love With: My new grandson, Owen Lewis Hopman, born October 13, thus becoming the 9th Libra among our extended family and friends. He was two weeks overdue, and I'm convinced that he just wanted to make certain he had his very own birthday, rather than sharing it with a grandfather, grandmother, father or uncle […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 10 years ago11/03/2015

Procrastination Spirituality

Just Put The Words on the Page: Why is This So Hard Sometimes?

You’ve heard it a million times, and so have I. Hell, I’ve said it a million times: all you have to do to write is get yourself to the page and throw words at it. And yet, sometimes this is just ridiculously difficult. Like, for me, this morning, when I struggled with writing a scene. […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 10 years ago11/04/2015

Focus

The Secret to Writing More Than You Ever Thought Possible

To get more writing done, you could get up earlier, or stay up later. To get more writing done you could close the door to your office and post a sign threatening death and dismemberment to anyone who enters. You could escape to the coffee shop or go on a retreat. You could run away […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 10 years ago11/03/2015

Tools for Writers

Cool Tools for Writers

A small round-up of items helpful for your writing… I've been writing a lot, how about you? But, um, you might have noticed I've not been blogging that much. One problem is that I can't access Typepad from the Chrome browser on my computer, and that means I have to go open Microsoft Edge, which […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 10 years ago11/03/2015

Rejection

Get Rid of Your Fear of Rejection Once and For All

Rejection. It is a fact of the writer’s life. I wish I could tell you that this was not so. I wish I could tell you that everything you send off would get picked up immediately. But I can’t. It is just not the way the world works. And so, alas, if you are a […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 10 years ago11/04/2015

Travel

Why Every Writer Should Travel

I'm just back from three weeks in Europe, one week for leading a writing workshop, and the other two for fun. However, I am a firm believer that even the two "fun" weeks contributed greatly to my writing career. Yeah, it might have looked like I was lolling about in the south of France, eating tapas […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 10 years ago11/03/2015

Charlotte Rains Dixon

Tag: writing

Five on Friday: Everything New

Otherwhere: Thus Beginneth

Five on Friday: Happy Halloween

My BEST Writing Tip, I Promise

Five on Friday: What’s Going On

Just Put The Words on the Page: Why is This So Hard Sometimes?

The Secret to Writing More Than You Ever Thought Possible

Cool Tools for Writers

Get Rid of Your Fear of Rejection Once and For All

Why Every Writer Should Travel

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