Glenda Bailey-Mershon

Write With Me! Study Hall, Monday, July 20, 2015

What’s blooming in your writing today? I’m still expanding scenes with Ruth in The Man Who Loved Chocolate. Please leave a post below about what you’re working on today. Write like it’s your birthday and every word is a gift!

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Glenda Bailey-Mershon

Glenda Bailey-Mershon is the author of the novel Eve’s Garden (Twisted Road, 2014), the story of three generations of Romani women surviving in North Georgia, USA, during the 1960s. She is also the author of Weaver’s Knot: Poems (Finishing Line Press, forthcoming 2023) and other poetry titles, including sa-co-ni-ge/blue smoke: poems from the Southern Appalachians (Jane’s Stories) and Bird Talk: Poems (Wild Dove). A founder of the nonprofit, Jane’s Stories Press Foundarion, which presents the Clara Johnson Award for Women’s Literature, she edited four of their anthologies, the latest being Bridges and Borders, featuring immigrant women writers.

11 responses to “Write With Me! Study Hall, Monday, July 20, 2015”

mrscrotty

July 20, 2015

Thoughts from being out the country. will write in late afternoon.

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chobhi

July 20, 2015

Back to my novel that needs a lot of work, good to look at it again after a long absence….

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Glenda Bailey-Mershon

July 20, 2015

Jane, isn’t it wonderful to take your mind on vacation and fun it’s still solving problems in the work back home? Looking forward to more of Mrs. Crotty!

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Glenda Bailey-Mershon

July 20, 2015

Chobhi, so glad you have joined us today!

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Roberta Bear

July 20, 2015

still on hiatus after ulnar nerve surgery last week–hungover from anesthesia and codeine. Randi?? Who’s that?!! Expect to be out of fog by next week; see you all then.

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Glenda Bailey-Mershon

July 20, 2015

Bobbie, I didn’t realize that was now. Heal soon! We miss you and Randi.

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Glenda Bailey-Mershon

July 20, 2015

Wrote three new scenes for Ruth’s story thread. An altogether good morning.

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Jacob Bear

July 21, 2015

I realized my current book is a cross between a travelogue and some very light history. This morning I tried to bleed onto the keyboard and add something to make it count. I wrote for four hours but didn’t succeed. I have to either raise the stakes or learn to be funnier or I won’t have a book worth reading.

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1. Glenda Bailey-Mershon
  
  July 21, 2015
  
  Sounds like you lost track of your passion for the subject, maybe? What made you want to write this book in the first place? Who is it for? How did this place make you feel? Have you told us how it smelled, tasted, looked, sounded, felt to be there? Why did you go, and what did you find there? I’m curious. You are a very funny guy, but if you make us feel anything on each page, you will succeed. Nothing wrong with a travelogue, especially if it gives us an experience we wouldn’t have had otherwise. You’ll find the heart, I know.
  
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Mama Pajama

July 21, 2015

here’s my bit: http://theunusedportion.blogspot.com/2015/07/heinrik.html

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Glenda Bailey-Mershon

July 22, 2015

Thanks for sharing it with us!

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