It's been a little over a month since NaNoWriMo ended and we all parted ways for the holidays. Now that you've had the time to recover from your November writing hangover, you're probably wondering... What do I do now with that novel I wrote for NaNoWriMo? It's a big...
New Year's Thieve is currently free on Amazon until January 1st, 2015 and since this is the very last time I'll be able to offer the eBook for free, I'm trying to get it in front of as many eyeballs as possible. To that end, I've taken some of the most popular New...
Hello, I am directing your wonderful play, The Love of Three Oranges. We have just begun rehearsals and are enjoying the process greatly. I want to ask you about the relationship between Pantalone and the King. What character in our world would you liken Pantalone...
Aw, just look at them. They look so cute together. I had the two of them sitting on my desk and I just had to snap a picture. It's crazy. The one-act version went from "Eh, I'll try it." to published in less than a year. It was December of last year that I told...
I am a human being. Flawed. Flailing. Far from polished. For the longest time, I've been trying to limit the number of personal posts I put on this blog. Things like word count updates, posts where I ramble about my various works in progress, or those posts where I...
"Stop looking at the mountain of words you've yet to write. You climb even the steepest path one step at a time and that’s how you’re going to reach your goal: word by word." -Hillary DePiano That quote above is from a pep talk I did for Camp NaNoWriMo (whole thing is...
One thing we've just got to discuss before NaNoWriMo ends is the fact that Writer's Digest actually did a whole issue devoted to NaNoWriMo. It was even the cover story! The whole issue was packed with tips about writing a novel in a month and support for the event....
I'm sure I'll have more to say about this production as its run continues but I had to just jump in quickly now and let you know about the production of The Love of Three Oranges happening at the Piccolo Theatre in Evanston, IL running from November 14-December 20th....
I was one of the NaNoWriMo pep talkers for the April 2014 Session of Camp and I never got to share that full pep talk here. While my focus in April was on rebels and everyone doing something other than a novel, the basics of this talk absolutely apply to everyone...
I was in a NaNoWriMo write-in last night when, suddenly, my novel ended. We were doing a word sprint and I couldn't think of what scene came next (because, while I didn't outline, I did formulate a list of scenes I thought might appear somewhere just to give me...
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