Comments for Bethany Smith http://bethanysmith.net Writer, Adventurer Mon, 10 Jun 2013 12:30:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ Comment on A Snippet From The Sea Story by Pat Esden http://bethanysmith.net/2013/06/10/a-snippet-from-the-sea-story/#comment-374 Mon, 10 Jun 2013 12:30:46 +0000 http://bethanysmith.net/?p=496#comment-374 Great snippet, Beth. I love seeing what everyone’s working on.

]]> Comment on A Snippet From The Sea Story by bethanyrsmith http://bethanysmith.net/2013/06/10/a-snippet-from-the-sea-story/#comment-373 Mon, 10 Jun 2013 12:01:05 +0000 http://bethanysmith.net/?p=496#comment-373 Oh, so glad you like it, Kip! I can’t wait til you can read it, too :)

]]> Comment on A Snippet From The Sea Story by bethanyrsmith http://bethanysmith.net/2013/06/10/a-snippet-from-the-sea-story/#comment-372 Mon, 10 Jun 2013 12:00:19 +0000 http://bethanysmith.net/?p=496#comment-372 Looking forward to it! :)

]]> Comment on A Snippet From The Sea Story by kiperoo http://bethanysmith.net/2013/06/10/a-snippet-from-the-sea-story/#comment-371 Mon, 10 Jun 2013 09:08:24 +0000 http://bethanysmith.net/?p=496#comment-371 Ooooooh, Beth, this is gorgeous. I can’t wait to read the whole thing! Thanks for sharing!

]]> Comment on A Snippet From The Sea Story by bethanyrsmith http://bethanysmith.net/2013/06/10/a-snippet-from-the-sea-story/#comment-370 Mon, 10 Jun 2013 01:14:32 +0000 http://bethanysmith.net/?p=496#comment-370 So sorry that happened to you, Shari. Every writer’s worst nightmare.

Glad you liked it!

]]> Comment on A Snippet From The Sea Story by jayerobinbrown http://bethanysmith.net/2013/06/10/a-snippet-from-the-sea-story/#comment-369 Mon, 10 Jun 2013 00:57:51 +0000 http://bethanysmith.net/?p=496#comment-369 I love it Beth! And thanks for tagging me. I’ll post tomorrow, probably.

]]> Comment on A Snippet From The Sea Story by Shari Green http://bethanysmith.net/2013/06/10/a-snippet-from-the-sea-story/#comment-368 Mon, 10 Jun 2013 00:56:49 +0000 http://bethanysmith.net/?p=496#comment-368 Love it, Beth! Especially the evocative line, “as wild and unknowable as the sea”, and the slightly-creepy, suspense-building phrase, “when I saw the first body”. :D

Thanks for tagging me. It’ll be a while before I post a snippet, though…you may have seen online that I lost my WIP file and am beginning again. (Ack!)

Can’t wait to read more of your sea story!!

]]> Comment on One Last Book by Shari Green http://bethanysmith.net/2013/06/08/one-last-book/#comment-367 Sat, 08 Jun 2013 05:00:35 +0000 http://bethanysmith.net/?p=492#comment-367 Sorry for all your struggles, Beth. *hugs*

I really think we have to write whatever stories are in our heart, without worrying about what shelf they’d fit on in a bookstore. So maybe one book will sell as YA, and another as adult, and I kinda think “so what?”. Of course, from a marketability perspective, that sounds like craziness, lol. But I honestly believe our best work happens when we’re not trying to make something fit into the expectations of a certain market. We ought always to write courageously, like you said, and trust that the stories that mean something to us will mean something to someone else as well.

Keep writing, keep taking joy in your stories, keep believing in yourself. :)

]]> Comment on Quarter Life Crisis by bethanyrsmith http://bethanysmith.net/2013/05/17/quarter-life-crisis/#comment-366 Sat, 18 May 2013 02:54:49 +0000 http://bethanysmith.net/?p=488#comment-366 Here here! <3

]]> Comment on Quarter Life Crisis by bethanyrsmith http://bethanysmith.net/2013/05/17/quarter-life-crisis/#comment-365 Sat, 18 May 2013 01:47:50 +0000 http://bethanysmith.net/?p=488#comment-365 As always, Shari, you are very wise. The road changes us, and it wearies us. We need the pit stops to recharge and to re-evaluate. Some people spend their whole lives on the road and when they get to the end of it they find themselves a world away from where they really want to be. For my part, I’m grateful for the pit-stops, but glad to be back on the road :)

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