I can’t be physically with you until late today, as I have some urgent medical problems to address. But I will be back and I will read all your comments, below.
A wise writer said to my class, in answer to how often she writes, “I try to lay hands on my manuscript once a day.”
I try to follow her advice. I don’t make it many days, but the goal helps me achieve more, because I can say that I’m just going to lay hands (or computer keys) on that manuscript today.
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.
Weaver's Knot by Glenda Bailey-Mershon 