by Hillary DePiano | Feb 26, 2013 | Living the Writing Life, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration
I was in a chat with my NaNoWriMo gang this past November when my buddy Rich started asking me if I’d be aiming for 500,000 words again in 2013. I started to hem and haw about how I hadn’t decided yet, what with not knowing what it would be like with a new...
by Hillary DePiano | Feb 2, 2013 | Living the Writing Life, NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month), On Writing: Craft and Commiseration
In 2011, I fell short of my writing goal. My goal was 500,000 words and I only wrote 392,074. But I decided to keep that 500,000 goal for 2012 because I’ve been steadily trying to ramp up how much I write with the ultimate goal of 1 million words a year and I...