by Hillary DePiano | Nov 6, 2009 | Announcements, Living the Writing Life, NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month), On Writing: Craft and Commiseration
Twitter can be a real distraction and you can find yourself wasting a lot of time browsing tweets when you could be writing. But before you get ready to cut Twitter out of your life for a full month, let’s go over some of the ways that Twitter can be a helpful...
by Hillary DePiano | Nov 6, 2009 | Living the Writing Life, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration
What a cheery post title, eh? I promise its not as bad as it sounds. So I made a point to get ahead with my word count because I knew I wasn’t going to be able to write on Tues or Wed of this week and set the goal for myself to hit 15,000 when I returned on...
by Hillary DePiano | Nov 5, 2009 | Living the Writing Life, NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month), On Writing: Craft and Commiseration
A Word War (also called a Word Sprint) is a time honored NaNoWriMo tradition but, if this your first NaNo, you may not be familiar with the term. Simply put, a word war is a challenge to push yourself to write more words. You can do this yourself, with a group (such...
by Hillary DePiano | Nov 4, 2009 | Announcements, Living the Writing Life, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration
I’ve been suspiciously quiet about how this year’s National Novel Writing Month effort because, well, I’ve been I’ve been writing just about every second I’m not working. So let’s let numbers do the talking, shall we. The little guy...
Hillary DePiano is a playwright, fiction and non-fiction writer who loves writing of all kinds except for writing bios like this.
