by Hillary DePiano | Oct 21, 2013 | External Stimuli, Living the Writing Life, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration, Personally...
It’s been a wild couple of weeks here in Babytown and work time has been hard to come by. So, for that matter, have been brain cells so I haven’t exactly been on my A game. But we’ve had a couple of days of calm so I’m taking the luxury of...
by Hillary DePiano | Oct 15, 2013 | External Stimuli, Personally...
Tomorrow is my birthday. Today is my last day as 33. Not a particularly milestone-y birthday but I wanted to note something about it before it passed. One thing that completely escaped my notice last year was that I was apparently living my life right on schedule...
by Hillary DePiano | Aug 28, 2013 | External Stimuli, Personally...
I’ve blown through my queue again and there was a week without a post. My apologies. That should be a good indicator that things are hectic. Baby is wonderful and I love her insanely. She just gets cuter and smarter and more wonderful every single day. The...
by Hillary DePiano | Jul 30, 2013 | Living the Writing Life, Personally...
I’m writing this on Friday night (7/26) but I’m going to schedule it to post on next Tuesday. Why? Because, as I write this, I am at 9,117 words for July out of my Half NaNo aka my 25,000 goal for July. That’s 36% of my goal so it’s not like I...
by Hillary DePiano | Jul 22, 2013 | External Stimuli, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration, Personally...
The little one was born in December. Between the fact that you need to limit a newborn’s exposure to public spaces and the fact that I couldn’t drive, we were stuck inside for most of the first three months of the year. Beyond driving around, it was also...
by Hillary DePiano | Jul 13, 2013 | On Writing: Craft and Commiseration, Personally...
People always ask me how I find time to blog so regularly in between everything else I do and I want to let you in on a little secret: I don’t blog regularly at all. I blog very sporadically and I just make my various blogs seem like they have a regular posting...