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Four Writing Lessons Travel Taught Me

Please welcome my friend and fellow writer Beverly Army to the blog today, as she makes us drool with envy over her vacation in France–and gives practical tips on how to maintain a writerly attitude while away from home. Four Writing Lessons Travel Taught Me by Beverly Army Williams Ahhh, summertime. The season of slowing […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 12 years ago11/03/2015

Books

Q and A With Eric Maisel

Last week, I posted my initial thoughts on Eric Maisel's latest book on creativity, Making Your Creative Mark, and promised more to come. Then his publicist sent me this interview, which I thought delved into more of the book very nicely. So here you go! An Interview with Eric Maisel Author of Making Your Creative […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 12 years ago11/03/2015

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The Creative’s Dilemma: Routine or Free Rein?

We creative types like freedom. "Don't fence me in!" we cry. We need to be unfettered and unchained in order to do our best work. And this particularly applies to anything so prosaic as schedules and routine, which are the polar opposite to creative passion. Right? That attitude is certainly the romantic vision many of […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 12 years ago11/03/2015

Books

The Benefits of Reading

Now, I know you read a lot. Because, you're a writer. And writers not only write, they read. It's the way of the world. Reading is why most of us got into this game in the first place. (Brief aside: you'd be surprised how many wannabe writers I've run into who don't read. When someone […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 12 years ago11/03/2015

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A First Look at Eric Maisel’s Making Your Creative Mark

Eric Maisel is practically a one-man industry. Well, he invented an industry–that of creativity coaching. In his own creativity coaching practice, he’s worked with MacArthur fellows, best-selling authors, Academy Award winners, painters, musicians, all kinds of creators. And not only that, he’s written books–tons of ’em, several of which I have read and enjoyed. So […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 12 years ago11/03/2015

Ideas

The World is Your Writing Oyster

A couple weeks ago I was greatly taken by a lecture I heard about the writing life, given by Helena Kriel at the Spalding MFA spring residency. The talk was, essentially, about how everything in the world feeds into our writing lives and our writing–if we are but present to the world. Further, when we […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 12 years ago11/03/2015

Writing Exercises

The Usefulness of Writing Exercises

I am a terribly fickle person. Most often, this fickleness applies to activities. Like cooking, for instance. I'll go on a kick where I'm interested in cooking. I buy cookbooks, I look up recipes, I watch the Food Network, I actually cook meals and occasionally even bake things. Then it all falls apart. My interest […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 12 years ago11/03/2015

Travel

A Writer Travels

One of the missions of this blog is to write about the writer's life, all of it, and for this writer (moi), travel for work is an integral part of it. My writing-related traveling began when I was accepted into the brief residency MFA program at Spalding University in Louisville, Kentucky, and fell into the […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 13 years ago11/03/2015

Motivation

10 Ways to Welcome May and Energize Your Writing

What the veggies from my raised beds will soon look like May is one of my favorite months ever, and here in Portland it is starting out as a glorious month! As new life bursts forth all around us, so, too does our creativity. It is time to welcome the return of good weather in […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 13 years ago11/03/2015

Writing Process

How Words Get on the Page

It's Sunday afternoon, and it's hot here in Portland. My nephew is visiting on his way from an internship in Washington D.C., back to law school in California. And he, my husband, and my son, are all at my daughter's learning how to make beer on this glorious afternoon. And where am I? Writing this […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 13 years ago11/03/2015

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Four Writing Lessons Travel Taught Me

Q and A With Eric Maisel

The Creative’s Dilemma: Routine or Free Rein?

The Benefits of Reading

A First Look at Eric Maisel’s Making Your Creative Mark

The World is Your Writing Oyster

The Usefulness of Writing Exercises

A Writer Travels

10 Ways to Welcome May and Energize Your Writing

How Words Get on the Page

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