by Hillary DePiano | Nov 28, 2012 | NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month)
You don’t have enough words to reach 50,000 yet. Maybe you finished your story before you hit your target word count. Maybe you’re just feeling word weary and can’t seem to make your characters DO anything. Or maybe you’ve already hit 50,000...
by Hillary DePiano | Nov 21, 2012 | NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month)
Every year I end up telling at least a few people about my friend Elmore. That’s author Elmore Hammes aka thekanapolisfog over on the NaNoWriMo site if you want to buddy him. He’s not only written MANY books and short stories, he’s also won every...
by Hillary DePiano | Nov 15, 2012 | Living the Writing Life
Here’s the thing. I write very fast. I usually build up a huge lead in the early days of the month and finish well over 50,000 by the end. In the last four years that I’ve been an ML, I’ve actually made an effort to do less binge writing and stay on...
by Hillary DePiano | Nov 13, 2012 | External Stimuli, Personally...
On Monday, October 29th, Hurricane Sandy came to visit the northeast of the US. When I look at the calendar, that looks so very long ago but it really feels like it just happened. We live in the northeast of NJ which was right in the path of it. I promised I’d...
by Hillary DePiano | Nov 11, 2012 | My Writing, Uncategorized
Everything you think you know about Santa Claus is wrong and the truth kind of… sucks. When three candidates are called to interview at the North Pole, they’re expecting to find a dream job gift wrapped for them. But once they meet Big Red himself, they start to...
Hillary DePiano is a playwright, fiction and non-fiction writer who loves writing of all kinds except for writing bios like this.
