by Hillary DePiano | Nov 30, 2010 | Living the Writing Life, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration
Last night, while chatting with the fun people from my NaNoWriMo area in our chat room, I passed the 50k mark and also finished my novel. How is that possible, you may ask, when a novel is usually more than 50,000 words? Well, my friend, I am a filthy cheater. I...
by Hillary DePiano | Nov 23, 2010 | Living the Writing Life, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration
“I’m sick of sitting ’round here trying to write this book.” -Bruce Springsteen, DANCING IN THE DARKThere was an online write-in for NaNoWriMo today and I am now at 42,504 words. I haven’t been giving you constant word count updates this...
by Hillary DePiano | Nov 15, 2010 | Announcements, Personally...
Faithful readers,Those of you that have been around for the long haul know that HillaryDePiano.com and my blog (Unpublishable Pennings) used to be totally separate pages with separate RSS feeds. For a long while now, they have been the same website which is why it was...
by Hillary DePiano | Nov 15, 2010 | External Stimuli, Living the Writing Life, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration
Inigo Montoya sits across from you at the coffee shop. He’s your novel critique partner. You’ve already given him your notes on his latest work. He wasn’t exactly pleased with your line edits. He actually said, “My name is Inigo Montoya. You...
by Hillary DePiano | Nov 15, 2010 | NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month), On Writing: Craft and Commiseration, Writing Advice and Resources
Today is November 15. You know what that means? It means you should be halfway done with your NaNoWriMo novel right now. In other words, if you’re trying to hit a word count of 50,000 you should be at 25,000 by the end of today. Take a look at your current word...
Hillary DePiano is a playwright, fiction and non-fiction writer who loves writing of all kinds except for writing bios like this.
