by Hillary DePiano | Oct 24, 2008 | Living the Writing Life, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration
Give it back! Curse you foul beasts! So the first 12 chapters of my book jump back and forth between three different sets of characters until everyone meets up in the jumble that is chapter 13. So I figured I would make more progress if, instead of going in actual...
by Hillary DePiano | Oct 23, 2008 | Living the Writing Life, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration
I just finally finished the long overhaul of Chapter 5 and then went to get the next chapter. Turns out there is no Chapter 6 but Chapter 7 is too far ahead in the story to be next. I do some digging. Naturally, there are two other Chapter 5s, in addition to the one I...
by Hillary DePiano | Oct 23, 2008 | Living the Writing Life, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration
OK, so for those of you just tuning in, I am racing to finish editing (and in some cases, totally re-writing) my previous novel so that it is finished before NaNoWriMo kicks off at midnight on Nov 1st. In case you were wondering, here is the progress so far. 5 / 40...
by Hillary DePiano | Oct 23, 2008 | Announcements, Living the Writing Life, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration
#4 Save the pep talks. One of the best things about NaNo is the pep talks. They get best selling authors and NaNo alumni to write up inspirational letters to make you want to keep working on your books and email them to you. They are really well written and a huge...
by Hillary DePiano | Oct 22, 2008 | Announcements, Living the Writing Life, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration
#3 Get ahead early. There are two reasons to get ahead on your word count and stock pile a lot of extra words in the beginning. The first is that things come up and you may need these words to make up for days you have to take off later on. Crisis happen unannounced...
Hillary DePiano is a playwright, fiction and non-fiction writer who loves writing of all kinds except for writing bios like this.
