Comments on: One Random "Yes" https://writersinthestormblog.com/2019/05/one-random-yes/ A Blog On Writing Sun, 12 Jan 2025 04:48:07 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: carmenlehtimaki https://writersinthestormblog.com/2019/05/one-random-yes/#comment-141244 Tue, 04 Jun 2019 03:27:13 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=37398#comment-141244 This post brought me such peace and motivation all at once. It is nice to just have the reminder that someone else gets it and that you just have to keep pushing through. Great post!

]]> By: tiffanyyatesmartin https://writersinthestormblog.com/2019/05/one-random-yes/#comment-141193 Sat, 01 Jun 2019 03:14:17 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=37398#comment-141193 In reply to Julie Glover.

How wonderful about your agent--it's such a blessing to have a team, allies. But we're ALL waiting for yeses, aren't we? That will be the title of my autobiography. 🙂 Thanks for the comment, Julie.

]]> By: Julie Glover https://writersinthestormblog.com/2019/05/one-random-yes/#comment-141189 Sat, 01 Jun 2019 01:47:26 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=37398#comment-141189 So much truth here. I somehow landed my dream agent a few years back, and to this day I wonder how that happened. That said, I'm still waiting for yeses in other areas. I appreciate your beautiful encouragement!

]]> By: tiffanyyatesmartin https://writersinthestormblog.com/2019/05/one-random-yes/#comment-141168 Fri, 31 May 2019 19:10:38 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=37398#comment-141168 In reply to michelle y perry.

That's lovely, Michelle! Sounds like you're already there, as far as defining success on your own terms and taking ownership of your writing career. Congrats on your novels, and all those WIPs! Thanks for the comment.

]]> By: michelle y perry https://writersinthestormblog.com/2019/05/one-random-yes/#comment-141121 Fri, 31 May 2019 12:54:14 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=37398#comment-141121 this was beautiful and something I can relate to on every level. However one point I would like to make is this, I write because I can and I do not for fame or fortune or to have a name niched out for others to read and wow them with. I am a strange writer who just writes stories for me and because I love to write simple as that. I write everyday and never stop. I do take refresher breaks though a few times a week to get better ideas for my novels. writing is my therapy for those times when the things in life get hard and tough and it allows me to put my emotions into words that help to heal me and soothe the wounds that can occur. I also write from the heart and soul of me to others who need some words of encouragement, uplifting and pure love that they might need at a difficult time in thier lives at that moment. so I have published three novels in a triology and though it might never make the New York's best seller list I am proud of it, because I had a goal to get published and have my writing on book cover and see it published and I did it and that was what my goal was entirely from the start of those books to the end of them. It was the best thing I had ever done and accomplished something I had always dreamed of doing. I also had kept a promise to a teacher who encouraged my writing from the age of ten who passed away before I hit high school, she always was my best supporter in life and whose opinion mattered the most.to me besides my Aunt who also encouraged my dream. when they died the passion continued and I made them both proud the day I received my books in print and saw my name on them and ever since that dream came true, my writing has changed somewhat but I learned a valuable lesson through it. those who said I couldn't do it were proven wrong and my proof was there in book form to contradict them. I could write and publish more novels if I so chose to because I have eleven novels written and saved on a disc, and am working on another one now, but I write for me and my pleasure of writing and spinning new stories that I love best to write. if they ever got picked up by an agent or publisher and wanted them to be published I wouldn't say no but I wouldn't be as happy as I am just writing for me and those I love who love to read it because they have learned to appreciate and value what I do and can't wait to see what I come up with next. just had to put this out there. not sure if it pertains to what you just wrote here but wanted to add my two cents so to speak to a fellow writer. I have a very high respect for writers period of any kind and style and love to let them know they are valued and appreciated. thank you.

]]> By: tiffanyyatesmartin https://writersinthestormblog.com/2019/05/one-random-yes/#comment-141119 Fri, 31 May 2019 11:25:54 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=37398#comment-141119 In reply to James Preston.

I love a good quote--please do.

]]> By: tiffanyyatesmartin https://writersinthestormblog.com/2019/05/one-random-yes/#comment-141118 Fri, 31 May 2019 11:25:20 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=37398#comment-141118 In reply to crbwriter.

<3

]]> By: tiffanyyatesmartin https://writersinthestormblog.com/2019/05/one-random-yes/#comment-141117 Fri, 31 May 2019 11:24:31 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=37398#comment-141117 In reply to Talia Prewette.

<3

]]> By: tiffanyyatesmartin https://writersinthestormblog.com/2019/05/one-random-yes/#comment-141116 Fri, 31 May 2019 11:24:16 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=37398#comment-141116 In reply to Fae Rowen.

Yes, the slog! 😀 Thrilled to hear you're in one of the peaks right now, Fae--but yeah, I think knowing the valleys inexorably come helps us to be at least ready for them.

]]> By: tiffanyyatesmartin https://writersinthestormblog.com/2019/05/one-random-yes/#comment-141115 Fri, 31 May 2019 11:22:58 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=37398#comment-141115 In reply to Martha.

This can be SUCH an isolating craft, true. Another reason it matters so much that we find our "people." I'm so glad the post helped, Martha--hang in there! I mentioned in another comment that author John Gilstrap recently said in a keynote speech that there was no such thing as failure until we quit, and I loved that.

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