by Hillary DePiano | Mar 20, 2010 | Announcements, Living the Writing Life, NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month), On Writing: Craft and Commiseration
In late Oct 2009, I wrote a post about NaNoWriMo (My 12 Step Guide for Succeeding at National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo)) that was actually a culmination of a 12 post series I had done the previous year. This post was very popular and had many retweets on Twitter...
by Hillary DePiano | Mar 17, 2010 | Living the Writing Life, NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month), Playwriting and Theatre
The Script Frenzy website encourages you to create a poster for your script before you haven’t written it and many Screnzy participants like to go one step further and make a trailer for their soon-to-be written script. I can see there being a value in...
by Hillary DePiano | Mar 16, 2010 | Living the Writing Life, NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month), Playwriting and Theatre
So you aren’t a script writer or maybe you just aren’t interested in writing a script. But there is this crazy writing contest coming up in April and wouldn’t it be nice to take advantage of that crazy inspirational fervor and community?In the end,...
by Hillary DePiano | Mar 16, 2010 | Living the Writing Life, NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month), On Writing: Craft and Commiseration
So after my little pity party the other day, I decided to get back into my story with a little thinking outside the box.See, part of the process of getting an agent is having a summary of your book and while I am nowhere near ready to start querying, I realized...
by Hillary DePiano | Mar 12, 2010 | NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month), Playwriting and Theatre, Writing Advice and Resources
Euroscript’s Fenella Greenfield has a great article on scriptwriting that I wanted to share with all your Screnzy folk. It’s chock full of 11 great tips for moving forward in your script when you get stuck. Here’s a taste: Central character emigrated...
Hillary DePiano is a playwright, fiction and non-fiction writer who loves writing of all kinds except for writing bios like this.
