Here’s what November 2016 looked like in writing… Yearly Goal 765,239/600,000 words (128%) <- we'll discuss this at length in a future post Monthly Goal My original goal was to pass last year's count of 117,716 but then I was like, haha, are you DAFT, woman? and...
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...
I'm a volunteer with NaNoWriMo and it always amazes me how many participants are completely shocked to learn that NaNoWriMo isn't completely flush with cash because everyone's heard of them, haven't they? It's easy to get the idea in your head that supporting an...
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...
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...
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 "taken over" by...
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 a...
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