I’ve got three writing workshops coming up in October (including one tomorrow)
Writing Workshops Coming in October
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Writing Workshop: Prepping a Writing Project (even if you hate to outline!) this Monday, September 25th, 7 PM
Prepping a Writing Project (even if you hate to outline!) September 25th, 7 PMRegister here Can you just dive into a writing project head first with no plan? Of course! But writing a book or script is a long march. The more prep work you do upfront to ready not just...
Writing Workshop: Starting a Writing Habit this Monday, September 18th, 7 PM
Starting a Writing Habit September 18th, 7 PMRegister here Do you want to write but have no idea where to begin? This workshop will show you how to get started and integrate writing into your life. No matter whether you write for yourself or aspire to publish,...
The best writing craft books
I'm teaching a bunch of writing classes over the course of the next year so I thought it would be helpful to start a list of the books I recommend the most often. Not just to keep them consolidated in one place, but also so I can update them as I find new ones. It's...
The Writing World’s Best Kept Secret: Inexpensive Online Writing Workshops
With the kids going back to school, you might be thinking of hitting the books yourself and brushing up on your writing skills. The ideal writing class would teach you important skills to help you hone your craft, inspire you to keep on writing, offer feedback and...
Writing Workshops at the Parsippany Library this fall
This autumn, I'll be teaching a series of writing workshops at the Main Branch of the Parsippany Library in Parsippany Troy-Hills, NJ. These are available free to the public and will run every Monday night from September 11th through October 16th from 7 pm until 8 pm....
An Overdue What’s New?
Gosh, I haven't done one of these in ages. Mostly because of the whole issue with the new blog post notifications that I explained here. I've actually got a lot going on... but I can't actually announce all of it yet so that'll have to wait for a future post. In the...
Programming Note: Changes to the New Blog Post email notification
Like to get an email whenever there is a new post on this site? I've made a small change to how that works you may want to know about! Short version: New blog post notification emails will now come as they happen and are a separate mailing list from the mail mailing...
Global Write-In Crawl: Double Up your NaNoWriMo word count and meet other writers from around the world!
What is the NaNoWriMo Global Write-In Crawl (GWIC)? TL; DR: The Global Write-In Crawl (GWIC) is an international, volunteer-run event held over the chat app Discord where writers from all over the world are invited to socialize and participate in "stops" aka writing...
In which HillaryDePiano.com is a work in progress but is at least mobile responsive now
When I redid this website back in August of 2014 (God, has it seriously been that long???) I picked the theme I did because it was supposed to be mobile responsive and constantly updated so it would work on mobile even as standards changed. But then, shortly after the...
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