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 | Oct 29, 2009 | Announcements, In Their Words, Living the Writing Life, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration, Writing Advice and Resources
Last year, leading up to NaNoWriMo, I did a series of posts covering what I learned about writing from doing the contest the year prior. Here is a reprint of that entire series all as a single post. What I learned about writing from NaNoWriMo . . . If you have never...
by Hillary DePiano | Oct 28, 2009 | Living the Writing Life, NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month), Writing Advice and Resources
So my cousin is signed up for her very first NaNoWriMo this year. She is freaking out about it and ready to quite before we’ve even begun. She’s worried that she doesn’t know what she is going to write about. She’s worried she’s not a...
by Hillary DePiano | Sep 28, 2009 | Announcements, My Writing, Uncategorized
Maybe you want to preview a copy to see if your school or group can produce it or maybe you just are curious to see what it is like. Whatever your reason, you just want a copy without paying for it, I get it. 🙂 Well a free copy is up for grabs right now at GoodReads....
by Hillary DePiano | Sep 10, 2009 | Announcements, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration
I really wanted to release the audiobook of The Author on Podiobooks because I have heard such great things about them but, unfortunately, they can only do an all or nothing scenario with this book. In other words, unless I give them all four parts at once, they...
Hillary DePiano is a playwright, fiction and non-fiction writer who loves writing of all kinds except for writing bios like this.
