by Hillary DePiano | Oct 30, 2009 | Living the Writing Life, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration
When I am writing a first draft, I have a very strict Re-Read Nothing policy. This applies to fiction as well as blog posts and emails. Just get it all down, that’s my philosophy and then re-read later. I adopted this because, otherwise, I get all caught up in...
by Hillary DePiano | Oct 29, 2009 | Announcements, In Their Words, Living the Writing Life, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration, Writing Advice and Resources
Last year, leading up to NaNoWriMo, I did a series of posts covering what I learned about writing from doing the contest the year prior. Here is a reprint of that entire series all as a single post. What I learned about writing from NaNoWriMo . . . If you have never...
by Hillary DePiano | Oct 28, 2009 | Living the Writing Life, NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month), Writing Advice and Resources
So my cousin is signed up for her very first NaNoWriMo this year. She is freaking out about it and ready to quite before we’ve even begun. She’s worried that she doesn’t know what she is going to write about. She’s worried she’s not a...
by Hillary DePiano | Oct 28, 2009 | Announcements, In Their Words, Uncategorized
I logged into my GoodReads account today and noticed a really nice new review of The Author that was posted by one of the giveaway winners:I’ve never read anything by Hillary DePiano……… I won a copy of this book in a giveaway. It was an awesome...
by Hillary DePiano | Oct 25, 2009 | External Stimuli
I’m researching an item I’m going to sell on eBay for a TA client. This involves learning the history of the Sunshine Cracker company (bought by Keebler/Kellogg if you were curious). I try to find out their most famous product.It is the Cheez-It snack...
Hillary DePiano is a playwright, fiction and non-fiction writer who loves writing of all kinds except for writing bios like this.
