Characters From My First (WIP) Novel
5 min readAug 8, 2022
Supporting Character: Mayra
I have been working on my first novel since November 2019. I’ve had all the mental fits and starts, roadblocks, and floodwaters one experiences as a first-time novel writer (I’m assuming). Over the last 2.5 years, the story that I thought I was writing changed into something outside of me, outside of my comfort zone, and has been quite intriguing to write! The story starts in the early 1960s and travels through the ’80s. It begins with a successful drug-dealing family in Guadalajara, and involves the first main character…