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Author Anxiety: on personal attacks, industry ire and people talking behind your back

Author Anxiety: on personal attacks, industry ire and people talking behind your back

by Hillary DePiano | Nov 2, 2026 | Evergreen, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration

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Author Anxiety: On dealing with bad reviews

Author Anxiety: On dealing with bad reviews

by Hillary DePiano | Oct 12, 2026 | Evergreen, Living the Writing Life, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration

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Working with your weirdness

Working with your weirdness

by Hillary DePiano | Mar 21, 2025 | Evergreen, Living the Writing Life, Personally...

One of the reasons I’m such a big fan of keeping records and analyzing how you work is you realize two things. The first is that we’ve all got our little quirks and you’ll almost immediately start to recognize patterns that amount to Your Individual...
Making the most out of your online writing workshop

Making the most out of your online writing workshop

by Hillary DePiano | Mar 1, 2025 | Classes and Workshops, Evergreen

I take a lot of writing workshops. Why? Well, because I think you can never really learn enough about writing craft and sometimes having a fresh perspective on content you may have learned before can help you understand it better. I also like having an excuse to...
NaNoWriMo alternatives to keep you writing in the off-season 

NaNoWriMo alternatives to keep you writing in the off-season 

by Hillary DePiano | Dec 8, 2023 | 4TheWords, Classes and Workshops, Evergreen, NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month), On Writing: Craft and Commiseration

Keeping the NaNoWriMo Spirit Going Year Round NaNoWriMo is over for another year but there is still plenty of writing still to do. To that end, here’s a list of resources that might serve you in the off-season. Of course, what you need from a post NaNoWriMo year...
The best writing craft books

The best writing craft books

by Hillary DePiano | Sep 9, 2023 | Evergreen, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration

I’m teaching a bunch of writing classes over the course of the next year so I thought it would be helpful to start a list of the books I recommend the most often. Not just to keep them consolidated in one place, but also so I can update them as I find new ones....
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