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Creating a Container for Success

Every year as we head into spring, I clean and organize my office. It is not something that is planned, I'm too right-brained for that. It's just that it feels like its time. Last year I bought a new desk set from Ikea and did a rigorous clearing out that took months. While I've enjoyed […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 15 years ago11/03/2015

Writing Process

Getting Your Work Out in The World: The Mindset

So, you're done with it. You've gone through the rewriting and revising stages and your novel (or memoir or short story collection or romance or mystery or article) is finished. Concluded, finalized, ended, done! And now the real fun begins. The marketing. Otherwise known as getting your work out in the world. Maybe you'll be […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 15 years ago11/03/2015

Guest Post

Guest Post: Valentines and Verse

Today's guest post is a bit different in nature, but very timely given that Valentine's Day is Monday. (Yes, Monday!) Please welcome guest blogger Lora Cain. The Mother of All American Valentines – and Verse by Lora Cain She may not have written the very first Valentine but Esther Howland certainly was the first […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 15 years ago11/03/2015

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Writing Process 3: Rewriting

This is part four of a continuing series of the writing process. For the previous articles in the series, see the end of this post. What's there to say about rewriting? You just get in there and do it, right? So what's there to write about? Well, plenty. For starters, let me make one thing […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 15 years ago11/03/2015

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Writing Process: The Three Ps of Glumping

Over the last week, I've been revisiting the writer's process. (You can get caught up on the other posts here and here.) As promised, today's post begins a look at each step of the process. And so today we talk about the fine and wonderful art of glumping. Glumping is a word that I've always […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 15 years ago11/03/2015

Critiques Writing Process

5 Guidelines for Critiquing The Rough/Discovery Draft

On Friday, I wrote about the writing process, and talked about the importance of allowing yourself to write a rough or discovery draft. A question that comes up, and I've had quite a discussion about this lately with my separated-at-birth-sister Candace, is what happens if you are in a critique group and working on a […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 15 years ago11/03/2015

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This Just In: Writers’ Platform Building Crusade

I just found out about a project called the Writers’ Platform Building Crusade. It is the brainchild of Rachel Harrie, and you can learn all about it here. It is designed to link together writers, bloggers, and authors, at any stage of their careers, in order to support each other and help build platforms. Participating […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 15 years ago01/05/2016

Writing

The Writing Process, Again

Apparently I'm more of a creature of habit than I thought. Every year about this time I write a post about going back to the basics. These pithy thoughts may be disguised in several different ways, but basically what I end up writing about is the writing process. And that's what I'm going to write […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 15 years ago11/03/2015

Guest Post

Guest Post: The Road to Creativity

This week it's Patrick's turn. Please welcome a guest post by my new friend and fellow creative, Patrick Ross, a Washington, D.C.-based freelance writer who blogs at The Artist's Road and is on Twitter at @on_creativity. He is working on a narrative nonfiction book chronicling his cross-country road trip. When it comes to ignoring the […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 15 years ago11/03/2015

Writing

Writing Around

When I was working on my recent workshop for The Writer's Loft, I had a brilliant realization. There's writing. And then there's writing around. So you don't think I'm the densest writer on the planet, I've known this forever, but haven't known known it, if you get my drift. Writing around is something I've always […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 15 years ago11/03/2015

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Tag: writing

Creating a Container for Success

Getting Your Work Out in The World: The Mindset

Guest Post: Valentines and Verse

Writing Process 3: Rewriting

Writing Process: The Three Ps of Glumping

5 Guidelines for Critiquing The Rough/Discovery Draft

This Just In: Writers’ Platform Building Crusade

The Writing Process, Again

Guest Post: The Road to Creativity

Writing Around

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