by Hillary DePiano | Jul 26, 2010 | Living the Writing Life, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration
To a layman, editing usually means reading something over and catching a few typos. But for more serious writers, be they fiction, educational, technical or non-fiction, know that sometimes editing means taking the whole thing apart, moving things around, hacking...
by Hillary DePiano | Jul 22, 2010 | Living the Writing Life, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration
Heck yeah! Now, when you really think about this in theory, 100k words is only like 2 NaNoWriMos and since we are close to 8 months into the year and I could have in theory done 50k every month, it makes me feel like a slacker. But in practice, I’ve been writing...
by Hillary DePiano | Jul 15, 2010 | Living the Writing Life, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration, Personally...
I’m almost at 100,000 words. Fun! Looking forward to that. Potato isn’t shooting my novel. He’s shooting something else. My novel was a high point of the evening.So today was really annoying and stressful. Remember that exciting news I promised you?...
by Hillary DePiano | Jul 6, 2010 | On Writing: Craft and Commiseration
When I started my very first book, it was in a white Get Along Gang notebook. I have no remembrance of the Get Along Gang. I never watched a single episode of the show, to my knowledge. Since I hadn’t known who the Get Along Gang was (I was going to abbreviate...
by Hillary DePiano | Jul 2, 2010 | Living the Writing Life, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration
I am a bad, bad writer. How bad? The last time I touched my work in progress was May 16th. That’s 47 days! Holy cow is that unacceptable. I have to confess, I genuinely had no idea it had been that long or I would have forced myself to work on it sooner. One of...
Hillary DePiano is a playwright, fiction and non-fiction writer who loves writing of all kinds except for writing bios like this.
