by Hillary DePiano | Oct 21, 2008 | Announcements, Living the Writing Life, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration
#2 Don’t bother with naming characters, places or anything for that matter. I used to waste so much time looking a baby name site trying to find character names, especially because I wanted them to mean something. Nothing sped up my writing faster than when I...
by Hillary DePiano | Oct 20, 2008 | Announcements, Living the Writing Life, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration, Writing Advice and Resources
We are only a few days away from the start of National Novel Writing Month and I wanted to start a countdown on this site by posting one of the lessons I learned from about writing from NaNoWriMo every day until November 1st. If you have never done (or won) NaNo...
by Hillary DePiano | Oct 14, 2008 | External Stimuli
I used to have a theory that the only true barometer for the economy was how My Little Pony Mail Order Exclusive Rapunzel was selling. When she was selling for around $500 on eBay, that meant that the economy was a little cruddy. When she was selling for around $800...
by Hillary DePiano | Oct 14, 2008 | Announcements
If you have a second, poke around the site a little bit and take a look at some of the changes I made. Let me know what you think. Better? Worse? Eh?The biggest change is that the site is branded around my name now instead of Unpublishable Pennings. I also had to...
by Hillary DePiano | Oct 13, 2008 | My Writing, Uncategorized
“Hillary DePiano really adds a new twist to an old fairy tale — there are knights and princes communicating by cell phone,” said Laura Gilbert, the director and producer of the show. “We hope that this story will be enjoyed by children and adults...