by Hillary DePiano | Jan 31, 2010 | External Stimuli, Living the Writing Life, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration
OMG, you guys, I wrote a book! Remember that? It’s actually mostly terrible but parts of it are awesome and I know how to fix the terrible bits. I think. You guys! I wrote a book that has the potential to not be terrible once I work on it a whole lot. How cool...
by Hillary DePiano | Jan 28, 2010 | Announcements, Evergreen, In Their Words, Living the Writing Life, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration
I wanted to take a moment to highlight this fantastic tweet from Anita Doreen Diggs. You can follow her on Twitter here @AnitaDiggs Finish your proposal (nonfiction) or manuscript (fiction) before worrying about agents, Kindles, e-books, the book tour, etc. There is...
by Hillary DePiano | Jan 26, 2010 | Announcements, My Writing, Uncategorized
So my friend Diana (who makes freaking awesome jewelry, you should check her stuff out over here) gave me a heads up about One World One Heart, which is basically a yearly community building web tradition. The idea behind it is, you offer something as a free prize and...
by Hillary DePiano | Jan 21, 2010 | Announcements, Uncategorized
With the horrible tragedy in Haiti, I wanted to be able to give more than I personally could give. So I decided to auction off ad space in my e-commerce/self-publishing podcast with 100% proceeds going to three different organizations that were trying to help out with...
by Hillary DePiano | Jan 20, 2010 | External Stimuli, Living the Writing Life
Just about every year you see an article or two going on about how New Year Resolutions “don’t work” or they “just discourage you.” I feel like the people who say that are just as bad as the people who say NaNoWriMo is no good because its...