by Hillary DePiano | Oct 22, 2008 | Announcements, Living the Writing Life, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration
#3 Get ahead early. There are two reasons to get ahead on your word count and stock pile a lot of extra words in the beginning. The first is that things come up and you may need these words to make up for days you have to take off later on. Crisis happen unannounced...
by Hillary DePiano | Oct 21, 2008 | Announcements, Living the Writing Life, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration
#2 Don’t bother with naming characters, places or anything for that matter. I used to waste so much time looking a baby name site trying to find character names, especially because I wanted them to mean something. Nothing sped up my writing faster than when I...
by Hillary DePiano | Oct 20, 2008 | Announcements, Living the Writing Life, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration, Writing Advice and Resources
We are only a few days away from the start of National Novel Writing Month and I wanted to start a countdown on this site by posting one of the lessons I learned from about writing from NaNoWriMo every day until November 1st. If you have never done (or won) NaNo...
by Hillary DePiano | Oct 1, 2008 | Announcements
Yeah, so if you looked at this blog yesterday into about mid-day today you probably saw that it was having an epic FAIL. Look, I know that sometimes I mess with the site but I swear to God I didn’t touch it this time. I have no idea what went wrong and have no...
Hillary DePiano is a playwright, fiction and non-fiction writer who loves writing of all kinds except for writing bios like this.
