by Hillary DePiano | Nov 14, 2016 | NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month), On Writing: Craft and Commiseration
I had a pep talk all ready for this week that was your standard NaNoWriMo stuff but I scrapped it because we’ve had anything but a standard NaNoWriMo this year and it’s silly to ignore the elephant in the room. (Pun intended.) How can IÂ be all “Rah...
by Hillary DePiano | Nov 7, 2016 | Evergreen, Uncategorized
You’re working on your novel. You’re writing away and the words are flowing great and then it hits you. The doubt. You have no idea where you were going with this. The characters are all stupid. What made you think you could pull this off? You’re...
by Hillary DePiano | Oct 31, 2016 | Living the Writing Life
Here’s what October 2016 looked like in writing… Yearly Goal 662,661/600,000 words (110%) Monthly Goal Only goal this month was to get ready for NaNoWriMo which wasn’t numerically based. Total Words Written 50,370 words Average Words Per Day 1,625 words Things...
by Hillary DePiano | Oct 31, 2016 | Living the Writing Life
November is National Novel Writing Month, an international event where participants attempt to write a 50,000 novel in 30 days. I’m a Municipal Liaison (aka ML, fancy name for a local volunteer) for my area (NE NJ), you’ll find the website somewhat...
by Hillary DePiano | Oct 28, 2016 | NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month), On Writing: Craft and Commiseration
Back in the day, I used to work for one of NaNoWriMo’s sponsors. We were encouraged to sign up for NaNoWriMo and try to participate so we understood what the event was about when customers came to us with questions. I dutifully signed up and joked about writing...
Hillary DePiano is a playwright, fiction and non-fiction writer who loves writing of all kinds except for writing bios like this.
