by Hillary DePiano | Nov 30, 2009 | Announcements, Living the Writing Life
‘Nuff said. It was a hard earned battle this year but I finished one full YA novel and over 50% of a second one so I am going to call it a win.Too burned out to write much more now, I will digest this all in greater detail tomorrow. I did the last 10K in less...
by Hillary DePiano | Nov 25, 2009 | In Their Words, Living the Writing Life
. . . and sometimes you have more ideas than you have time to write down! Psyched you out there, didn’t I? You thought I was going to write about writer’s block.”Writer’s block is a fancy term made up by whiners so they can have an excuse to...
by Hillary DePiano | Nov 24, 2009 | Living the Writing Life, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration
My characters are killing each other again. Well, trying to kill each other anyway. It’s a bit of a major plot element that keep failing at it. I am writing under hella pressure right now because my holiday work load is getting heavier by the day AND we are...
by Hillary DePiano | Nov 21, 2009 | Living the Writing Life, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration
I stole a few minutes today to write a little more while my husband was mucking about with Windows 7 on my new computer (more about the new computer later which is my first new computer since college so I am very excited about that).I am at the 75% done marker! Well,...
by Hillary DePiano | Nov 20, 2009 | Living the Writing Life, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration
The novel. It mocks me!! So here we are at a mere 35k words, nearly 36k and still a good 14k plus away from winning NaNoWriMo and I am done with my book. I was freaking out about this a few days ago when I realized that the book was going to end too early but I...