Marybeth Smith » books http://www.marybethsmith.com Aspiring Novelist Wed, 04 Aug 2010 13:03:29 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 STILL Reading http://www.marybethsmith.com/2009/09/still-reading-198 http://www.marybethsmith.com/2009/09/still-reading-198#comments Fri, 18 Sep 2009 13:14:17 +0000 Marybeth http://www.marybethsmith.com/?p=198 So I mentioned back in July in this Post that I was going to take a break and do some reading….and I can’t seem to stop reading now.

I have to embarrassingly point out that before that post I had not read much of anything since high school. Probably about 3 or 4 books as well as the Twilight Series and the Harry Potter Series…oh and Wuthering Heights (LOVE that book)

So SINCE July….this is what I’ve read….

New Moon by Stephanie Meyer (again)Home_Photo_books

Eclipse by Stephanie Meyer (again)

Breaking Dawn by Stephanie Meyer (again)

And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie

Pretty Is as Pretty Dies by Elizabeth Spann Craig

The DaVinci Code by Dan Brown

Dead Before Dark by Charlaine Harris

The Giver by Lois Lowry

The Wedding by Nicolas Sparks

Percy Jackson and the Olympians by  Rick Roirdon
The Lightening Thief
The Sea of Monsters
The Titans Curse
The Battle of the Labrynth
The Last Olympian

Looking for Alaska by John Green

An Abundance of Katherines by John Green

Paper Towns by John Green’

And right now I am reading The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown and Menu for Romance by Kaye Dacus

So I think it’s SAFE to say I think I’m ready to go back to writing. I even did a bit yesterday and am SUPER happy with what I got done. Although the problem now is … now that I’ve gotten into reading, I can’t stop! I am in love with it. I just can NOT consume enough books. Why didn’t anyone tell me that reading was so wonderful!!?!?!

And in case you were wondering, so far my favorites have been Pretty is as Pretty dies, The ENTIRE Percy Jackson series and Looking for Alaska.

Know of any other books you think I MUST read? Leave them in the comments! Hope everyone enjoyed the summer as much as I did!

]]> http://www.marybethsmith.com/2009/09/still-reading-198/feed 3 I think I missed something! http://www.marybethsmith.com/2009/06/i-think-i-missed-something-95 http://www.marybethsmith.com/2009/06/i-think-i-missed-something-95#comments Mon, 15 Jun 2009 18:41:40 +0000 Marybeth http://www.marybethsmith.com/?p=95 cart-before-horse-2Saturday morning I woke up and the ideas were sitting the front of my head screaming at me, “Get to work woman!” I am not sure where they came from, but once again they were there and I couldn’t get rid of them. I HAD to document them, had to write each one down and make sure I didn’t lose them. To lose these well formed thoughts would be a tragedy!

So I grabbed my pink pen and notebook and let the words flow from the shiny pink ink. Here is what I accomplished…

The end of the second book.

The beginning of the third book.

And a little bit of the middles for both.

Is anyone seeing a problem with this? I think we are missing a bit of meat here!!! Well in retrospect I now have some new ideas to work around. It’s nice to have some clear concise thoughts about where this is all going for Paige. Now I just need to figure out how she is going to get there.

Has this ever happened to you? Is there just something about Saturday mornings that just gets the brain juices flowing?

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