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Do Characters (And Sentences) Belong Only To One Story?

I was writing away on my new novel when suddenly the ex-husband from a novel I'd started and abandoned walked on. He's my new favorite character, ever, and his insistent good cheer is going to make a great counterpoint to my confused, grieving heroine. I adore this guy. But how weird is it that he […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 14 years ago11/03/2015

Meditation

A Meditation and Exploration for Your Book

I finished going through the papers from long ago that had landed on the floor of my office, but yesterday I tackled another organizing project: office supplies. Read: journals. As in unused ones. I've got tons of them. After my initial foray into sorting them, I told my husband that if I ever uttered the […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 14 years ago11/03/2015

Rewriting

Rewriting: Print Out Your Work

Sorry, trees. The topic of today's post impacts your health on this planet, and for that I'm truly sorry. But I'm rediscovering the helpfulness of printing out my work in order to rewrite and revise it. (I like to make a distinction between the two words. To me, rewriting is what you do on the […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 14 years ago11/03/2015

Voice

Finding Your Natural Writing Voice

Voice. We all want it. We worry about whether we have it or not. We're pretty sure we need it in order to get published, yet we might not even know exactly what it is. And it's almost for certain that we don't know how to get it. So what is voice? It is your […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 14 years ago11/06/2015

Guest Post

Call For Guest Posts

I'm going to be away the last week in April (at the Diamond writing retreat I'm co-leading) and the first week of May (in Maui, for a spiritual retreat with the women of my church.) The Diamond retreat is at an old hotel that was once a stagecoach stop that does not have Wi-Fi or […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 14 years ago11/03/2015

Publishing

Getting an Agent

I've promised to be forthcoming about every aspect of the process of getting my book published, so here goes another post on it. Last week I off-handedly mentioned that I was looking for an agent. Later, was speaking with my buddy Square-Peg Karen (keep an eye out for a cool collaboration we're working on) and […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 14 years ago11/03/2015

Novel Writing Publishing

How I Finally Opened the Publishing Door

The press that will print my book. Kidding. On Monday, I told you that a small publishing house has agreed to publish my novel. Today, I'm going to tell the story of how it came about. (It feels a little weird to be writing so much about it, seeing as how all I know so […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 14 years ago11/03/2015

Novel Writing Publishing

If I Can Do It, You Can Do It

As most of you know, I've written several novels and have been obsessively heavily marketing the most recent one, Emma Jean's Bad Behavior. Over and over again, I get the same response from agents: We love it. But… But Emma Jean is too brash. But Emma Jean is unlikeable (because she does what she wants […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 14 years ago12/12/2015

Writing Inspiration Writing Process

Writing as an Act of Discovery

Here's something I forget: We write to figure things out. We write to discover what we know. We write to uncover what we don't know. And yet. We sit down to the page and think we have to be experts. We sit down to write and think it has to come out perfect. We sit […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 14 years ago11/03/2015

Novel Writing

Tips on Writing, Prepping for the Novel, Part Five–Setting

Okay, in the last post in this series, I said it was the final article. The end, finito, donezo. Ha! Because the other day, while working on setting in my own novel, the thought occurred: I left setting out of my series on prepping for the novel. Duh. This from a woman who wrote her […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 14 years ago11/03/2015

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Tag: writing

Do Characters (And Sentences) Belong Only To One Story?

A Meditation and Exploration for Your Book

Rewriting: Print Out Your Work

Finding Your Natural Writing Voice

Call For Guest Posts

Getting an Agent

How I Finally Opened the Publishing Door

If I Can Do It, You Can Do It

Writing as an Act of Discovery

Tips on Writing, Prepping for the Novel, Part Five–Setting

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