Charlotte Rains Dixon 17 years ago11/06/2015

Hi ho, hi ho, its off to Nashville I go

I’m leaving on a jet plane tomorrow. (I know, I know, I can’t help it–I have all these old songs playing in my head.)

I’ll be in Nashville for the Loft Literary Day, which is on Saturday. I get to meet with students and sit and enjoy the lectures of other mentors. Usually I am giving a lecture myself, and all nervous, so it will be a treat just to sit back and listen to others.

I’m also meeting with private students and a client or two. Oh, and all my wonderful friends in town. I adore Nashville.

On Monday, I’m heading over to Gatlinburg to have a writing retreat with my friend Linda Parker. Since I finished the second draft of Emma Jean, I think I’m going to have a look at my first novel, Language of Trees.

There may be a good reason for this. But I’m not sayin’ anything yet.

Anyway, don’t miss me too much. I’m not going to give you a chance to, because you know how I am–just can’t stay away from the blog.

Now excuse me, while I go in search of some fried okra. Or better yet, fried dill pickles. They never met a vegetable they couldn’t figure out how to fry in the south, God love ’em.

Photo of Gatlinburg used under GNU Free Documentation License 1.2. Photo of Nashville by Bill Penn, used under Creative Commons License 2.5.

Charlotte

Charlotte Rains Dixon mentors creative writers from passionate to published. Charlotte is a free-lance journalist, ghostwriter, and author. She is Director Emeritus and a current mentor at the Writer's Loft, a certificate-writing program at Middle Tennessee State University. She earned her MFA in creative writing from Spalding University and is the author of a dozen books, including The Complete Guide to Writing Successful Fundraising Letters, and Beautiful America’s Oregon Coast. Her fiction has appeared in The Trunk, Santa Fe Writer’s Project, Nameless Grace, and Somerset Studios and her articles have been published in Vogue Knitting, the Oregonian, and Pology, to name a few. Her novel, Emma Jean’s Bad Behavior, was published in 2013, and she is represented by Erin Niumata at Folio Literary. Learn about her annual writing workshops in Europe at letsgowrite.com, and visit her blog at www.charlotterainsdixon.com, where you can find all kinds of tips and techniques on writing and creativity.