by Hillary DePiano | Jun 30, 2009 | Announcements, External Stimuli, In Their Words, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration
“You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance.” -Ray Bradbury I’ve wanted to do this for a really long while so I’m really going to try to stick with this and do a quote a week. If nothing else, reading them inspires me so hopefully it will do the...
by Hillary DePiano | Jun 29, 2009 | External Stimuli
I haven’t posted a random spam message in ages but this one deserved a special mention for it’s sheer randomness. Here we go:Subject: except it be a woman old;could twist the sinews of thy heart? here, at his watch, gave him the chance of earning the...
by Hillary DePiano | Jun 22, 2009 | Announcements, My Writing, Uncategorized
If you follow me on Twitter, I actually discussed this a little already there so I am a little late to the party in posting this on the blog as this article was posted on June 2nd (where does the time go, I ask you?). The Lumberjack Log is an online high school...
by Hillary DePiano | Jun 21, 2009 | External Stimuli, Uncategorized
“Life is not about waiting for the storm to pass, it’s about learning how to dance in the rain.” -Anonymous So, I heard this quote for the first time today and just wasted all this time looking up who said it to attribute it properly. If you are...
by Hillary DePiano | Jun 19, 2009 | Living the Writing Life, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration
So I haven’t updated you on the novel in a while mainly because I haven’t had time to work on it in ages. Tonight I decided sleep be damned and finished my work early so I could work on my novel. Let me tell you, the last few weeks have been awful. First,...