by Hillary DePiano | Nov 15, 2010 | NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month), On Writing: Craft and Commiseration, Writing Advice and Resources
Today is November 15. You know what that means? It means you should be halfway done with your NaNoWriMo novel right now. In other words, if you’re trying to hit a word count of 50,000 you should be at 25,000 by the end of today. Take a look at your current word...
by Hillary DePiano | Nov 13, 2010 | Announcements, Me, but Elsewhere
Because I’m massively uncreative, the title of this article is exactly the same as my tweet about this same topic. Judge me if you will. 🙂 Remember this thing? The thing where eBay let me into this elite group of social media conscious sellers because I was cool...
by Hillary DePiano | Nov 7, 2010 | NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month)
We’re entering the second week of NaNoWriMo and you’ve probably heard the warnings already. NaNoWriMo week two is shrouded in infamy. It’s not really the second week’s fault, it has more to do with where you are in your story at this point in...
by Hillary DePiano | Oct 28, 2010 | Living the Writing Life, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration
I realize I never talked about what I was going write for NaNoWriMo on this blog. Pretty funny, when you consider how much talking about NaNoWriMo I’ve been doing.First let’s talk about the projects I’m in the middle of:Editing: one nonfiction book,...
by Hillary DePiano | Oct 27, 2010 | NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month), On Writing: Craft and Commiseration
Most of the things I’ve posted about NaNoWriMo have to do more with the writing, about getting your story to the 50,000 word mark and beyond. Now however I want to focus a little bit more on the nitty-gritty. I think you should separate your NaNoWriMo novel into...