Charlotte Rains Dixon

The Moment Y’All Have Been Waiting For Has Arrived

Finally, I have a chance to explain what the word ekphrastic means. I can barely remember how to spell it now. And, funnily enough, Wikipedia spells it differently than I do. I got my spelling from Alvin Knox, the brilliant poet and my fellow colleague at The Loft, and truthfully? Even though I am guilty […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 18 years ago11/06/2015

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Stop The World, I Want To Get Off

I don’t really, but remember that old movie? Or was it a musical? Or just a joke? I don’t know, I think it was a little before my time, but it is such a great sentence. And it kinda describes how I feel today. Or how I felt this morning. I’m feeling better now, having […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 18 years ago11/03/2015

Writing

Still Waiting on That Ekphrasis Definition….

…because I have a good story to tell. Yesterday Linda and I set off from Gatlinburg to visit the Biltmore Estates in Asheville, North Carolina. But, ahem, we kinda got lost. Okay we really got lost. (Note to self and everyone else: do not rely on those in-car navigation systems.) I was driving Linda’s gigo […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 18 years ago11/03/2015

Writing Writing Events

It is Beautiful Here In The Great Smokies, And I Now Know What Ekphrasis Means

At least I think I know. But you will have to wait a bit for erudite me to enlighten you on that, because first you must suffer through an update of my travels. I’m in Gatlinburg, at a beautiful resort perched on the side of a mountain (well, they call them mountains in these parts, […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 18 years ago11/06/2015

Travel Writing

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 […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 18 years ago11/06/2015

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It is September 11, Do A Good Deed Today

Wait, what? It is September 11, isn’t it a day of gloom and doom? Not anymore. There’s a movement afoot to make this day, the anniversary of one of the worst days in our nation’s history, into something positive. The idea is to focus on the humanitarian outpouring that followed the September 11th attacks, not […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 18 years ago11/06/2015

Writing

If You Are A Writer…..

….you are never not thinking about your current project, at least somewhere in the dim recesses of your mind. When working on a novel or screenplay or other long project, you are always, always, always, aware that any free time could best be spent by working on it. You are constantly aware that everything in […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 18 years ago11/03/2015

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What You Don’t Know About Me

Nina, the wonderful author of Darwin’s Paradox, and the blog The Alien Next Door, tagged me for a meme, on eight random facts about me. You really sure you want to go there? Well, alright. If you insist. Here goes: 1. I am the proud mother of the largest pug in the world. I’m not […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 18 years ago11/06/2015

Authors

Madeleine L’Engle Redux

Just found another L’Engle tribute from a fan like me. This one is worth checking out because she has links to the New York Times obit, which I couldn’t find yesterday, and a couple other stories. Check it out here.

Charlotte Rains Dixon 18 years ago11/03/2015

Authors Writing

Madeleine L’Engle: A Personal Heroine Passes

One of my favorite authors of all time died today. Madeleine L’Engle died in a nursing home in Connecticut at age 88. She was best known, of course, for her book A Wrinkle in Time, which my sister and I read and re-read and read again as we were growing up. I read it to […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 18 years ago11/06/2015

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