by Hillary DePiano | Dec 23, 2016 | Living the Writing Life, My Writing, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration
2016 was a crap sandwich for just about everyone and I’m no exception. It was a crazy stressful year full of unexpected changes and pressures and so much of the future is still uncertain. But while 2016 felt like a big fat fail as I was living it, it actually...
by Hillary DePiano | Nov 30, 2016 | NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month), On Writing: Craft and Commiseration
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,...
by Hillary DePiano | Oct 31, 2016 | Living the Writing Life
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...
by Hillary DePiano | Oct 4, 2016 | Living the Writing Life, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration
Where did the last month of my life go? Did one of you take it? If you did, I won’t even be mad, just give it back because I am seriously not ready for it to be October already. Well, jeez, I guess this is happening so we might as well get down to it… (If...
by Hillary DePiano | Sep 2, 2016 | Living the Writing Life, My Writing
I think this might be the first time I’ve written my writing recap after the month has already ended. Here’s what August 2016 looked like in writing… Yearly Goal 556,549/600,000 words (93%) Monthly Goal My goal was to take August off. This meant, I could write...
Hillary DePiano is a playwright, fiction and non-fiction writer who loves writing of all kinds except for writing bios like this.
