*Work in Progress
Today I’m working on adding a new minor character to my novel. Her name is Argo, she’s nonbinary, and very loquacious and sarcastic—the latter quality is a defense mechanism that David, the main character, catches on to right away. Argo’s main purpose in the book is to illuminate David’s character—trusting, accepting, and very open to new ideas. She’s also there as a point of defiance to the viewpoint that there are only two genders.
What are you working on today? Let us know in the comments below. Funny, how sometimes just saying what you want to accomplish helps us get down to writing it. Talk to me, folks, while I draft Argo’s message to the readers.
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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.