by Hillary DePiano | Oct 27, 2008 | Announcements, Living the Writing Life, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration
#8 Skip around. If the part that you are writing is really hard or really boring, skip it! You have my permission to jump ahead to that cool fight scene that you are dying to write. Getting the book done is the point and writing it in order is not necessarily the way...
by Hillary DePiano | Oct 26, 2008 | Announcements, Living the Writing Life, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration
#7 Try to finish the book, not just the contest. I failed miserably at this last year and am still kicking myself. November is this crazy creative storm where you have lots of inspiration, support and inspiration. You’d be stupid to not take advantage of that...
by Hillary DePiano | Oct 25, 2008 | Announcements, Living the Writing Life, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration
#6 Do tell people that you are doing NaNoWriMo. There are two great motivators in play when you tell/brag about doing NaNoWriMo. The first is that you will have cheerleaders to root you on. My husband and friends Katie and Grace get huge gold stars for last year for...
by Hillary DePiano | Oct 24, 2008 | Announcements, Living the Writing Life, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration
#5 Don’t get discouraged by other people’s word counts. Some people like to look at where other people are in comparison to them. I like to look at friends because then it’s personal and I can be like, Bob has 10,000 words more than me? The hell he...
by Hillary DePiano | Oct 24, 2008 | Living the Writing Life, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration
I just decided to re-write Chapter 6 from scratch instead of mutating the two other Chapter 5s. I think its better this way, though I did just get rid of yet another huge plot point that has been in there since the very first draft but I am over it. I will add it in...
Hillary DePiano is a playwright, fiction and non-fiction writer who loves writing of all kinds except for writing bios like this.
