Charlotte Rains Dixon 16 years ago11/03/2015

This Appears to be My Week For Attention…

…and I’m basking in it. Grapes, more grapes please. And could you bring me some chocolate also? No, I prefer red wine, thank you. A foot rub would be nice. And there’s a wee little sore spot on my back…

No, I guess its not that kind of attention. Damn.

But this kind is just as good. My buddy Mark over at the Uncanny Broadcasting Brain Blog (he says his sense of humor is on back-order and he’s working with what he’s got, but with a title like that I don’t believe him) gave me a mini-review in his Featured on Fridays post.

Pretty good stuff, eh? (He’s Canadian so I can use that eh? at the end of the sentence.)

Thanks, Mark!

And guess what? It’s not over yet. I have it on good authority that more attention will be lathered upon moi, the one and only moi. But you’ll have to check back to find out about that.

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.

0 thoughts on “This Appears to be My Week For Attention…”

Mark Dykeman
11/03/2007 1:10 pm
You’re most welcome, Charlotte!
Good for you on using “eh”! Now you need to word on your pronunciation of “about”….
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Charlotte
11/03/2007 2:07 pm
And would that correct pronunciation be “aboot?”
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Zhu
11/04/2007 9:03 pm
Right on ! (eh)
Yeah, I’m Canadian…
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Don Williams
11/05/2007 11:34 am
I’m neither American, British, Irish, Caribean, Mexican or other Latin American or an Aussie, or a European, South American, Chinese or other Asian, South Polian (S. Pole), Moonian, Martian, or Oceanian, therefore I must be a Canadian too, eh!
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Charlotte
11/05/2007 10:05 pm
The Canadians are attacking, eh?
Actually, I love you guys–my neighbors to the north. I’ve often heard Portland described as a Canadian-type city.
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Mark Dykeman
11/06/2007 4:48 pm
Oops Charlotte, just saw your comment. It’s only pronounced “aboot” if you live in Ontario or west of there.
In Atlantic Canada, it’s pronounced “abowt”. Or at least it is where I live. But then again I think our local accent is a cross between a Texas drawl and a lower class British accent. Which makes no sense at all, but it is descriptive.
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Charlotte
11/08/2007 3:24 pm
Very interesting. We Americans have a lot of stereotypes about Canadians, eh? At least I got the eh? right. Accents are fascinating.
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