I know I've said this before but I can't express to you how glad I am that I changed my writing year so that it ends in November. I made this change on a whim back in 2014Â and it was one of the best decisions I've made for both my writing goals and general mental...
To the writer that finished what you set out to...
To the writer that reached their word count target...
To the writer that finished neither their NaNoWriMo...
Polar Twilight, that little comedy of mine where Santa Claus is a vampire that sounds like it's going to be all scary and blasphemous but is actually totally cute and heartwarming, (I swear! Even my Catholic school teacher mom came around to it!), is enjoying a...
What happens when you take Jane Austen's six classic novels and mix them up with nine of the most popular genres of today? With anywhere from two to a dozen or more actors running around wildly playing all the parts? And then do the whole mess in less time than it...
If you've been waiting for the chance, to buy All The Plays by Hillary DePiano, now's your chance! Both YouthPLAYS and Playscripts, who between them have 9 of my plays available, are running holiday sales but you gotta be quick to take advantage because both expire...
At the moment I'm writing this, I'm 42,488 words behind on my goal for NaNoWriMo. On my lesser goal? I'm 24,772 words behind. Yeesh. That's a big deficit. And if I can't hit my goal, what's the point of writing anymore at all? It would be much nicer to just take the...
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 rah, writing!" when...
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 just so sick of this...
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