by Hillary DePiano | Jan 3, 2017 | Evergreen, Living the Writing Life, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration
By popular request, I’m reposting this updated for 2017. It’s exactly the same as last year, only the dates are updated in the spreadsheet (I didn’t update the screenshots, so sue me). I do have a slightly different system I’m personally using...
by Hillary DePiano | Jan 3, 2017 | Living the Writing Life
I’ve been setting a writing goal for the year and keeping track of exactly how much I write every day and on what project for six years now. While I’ve changed exactly what I’ve tracked and how I’ve tracked it over the years, the basic day by...
by Hillary DePiano | Jan 1, 2017 | Evergreen, NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month), On Writing: Craft and Commiseration
It’s a brand new year which means it’s the traditional time of setting new goals and resolutions for the year ahead. For us writers, that can mean setting deadlines or striving for new writing habits in the coming year. I think taking a few minutes to...
by Hillary DePiano | Dec 25, 2016 | Announcements, Living the Writing Life
It’s the holiday season, which means many people unwrapped a brand new eReader in the last few days. If one of those gifts was an Amazon Kindle, Fire or a new phone or tablet compatible with the free Kindle App (which is just about all of them), this is your...
by Hillary DePiano | Dec 23, 2016 | Living the Writing Life, My Writing, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration
2016 was a crap sandwich for just about everyone and I’m no exception. It was a crazy stressful year full of unexpected changes and pressures and so much of the future is still uncertain. But while 2016 felt like a big fat fail as I was living it, it actually...