by Hillary DePiano | Aug 6, 2017 | Living the Writing Life, My Writing
If my records are correct, this July was my 9th Camp NaNoWriMo victory, lucky 13th time participating. While there’s a lot about the event that is wonky and ways it can improve, it’s still amazing how the accountability of having other people aware of my...
by Hillary DePiano | Jul 10, 2017 | Living the Writing Life, My Writing, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration
Time is absolutely rocketing by and it is unacceptable. Baby is getting all big and stuff which is very rude when I want her to stay tiny and snuggly forever. But she said, “Mama” a week ago so I forgive her. The other one said just about every word in the...
by Hillary DePiano | Jun 6, 2017 | Living the Writing Life, My Writing, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration, Uncategorized
I was going to make the title of this post a play on May Day and then fell into a Wikipedia hole about May Day, the spring holiday, vs MayDay, the distress signal, and barely escaped so that’s why you got a boring title instead. The fact that it is already June...
by Hillary DePiano | May 5, 2017 | Living the Writing Life, My Writing
Multiple people told me they assumed I’d be taking the April session of Camp NaNoWriMo off this year because of the new baby and I was like, “Ha! Have you met me?” It would have been sensible and healthy to take Camp NaNoWriMo off after just having a...
by Hillary DePiano | Apr 10, 2017 | Living the Writing Life, My Writing
Here’s what March 2017 looked like in writing… Total Words Written This Month 50,869 words Average Words Per Day 1,641 words Monthly Goal I didn’t set a goal since this was my first full month with the new baby and setting a goal seemed idiotic. Yearly Goal...
Hillary DePiano is a playwright, fiction and non-fiction writer who loves writing of all kinds except for writing bios like this.
