by Hillary DePiano | Nov 26, 2014 | Evergreen, NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month)
“Stop looking at the mountain of words you’ve yet to write. You climb even the steepest path one step at a time and that’s how you’re going to reach your goal: word by word.” -Hillary DePiano That quote above is from a pep talk I did for Camp...
by Hillary DePiano | Nov 17, 2014 | Evergreen, NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month)
I was one of the NaNoWriMo pep talkers for the April 2014 Session of Camp and I never got to share that full pep talk here. While my focus in April was on rebels and everyone doing something other than a novel, the basics of this talk absolutely apply to everyone...
by Hillary DePiano | Nov 10, 2014 | Evergreen, Living the Writing Life, NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month), On Writing: Craft and Commiseration
For years, I used to wait until I had a good stretch of time to write. I’d get myself comfy in my favorite chair, get my favorite drink ready, have my special writing music playing and work on my book for hours. Sounds good, right? Except for the fact that long...
by Hillary DePiano | Oct 31, 2014 | Evergreen, NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month)
Some parts of a novel are much easier to write than others. Those first few words? Terrifying! But once you get going, things will go pretty smoothly in the beginning. Words will just be spilling out, you’ll be excited about your story and then… boom. You’ll hit a...
by Hillary DePiano | Oct 30, 2014 | Evergreen, NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month)
Your story won’t be the length you think it is. At some point over the course of the month, 50,000 words is going to feel like an impossible amount to write, every word like drawing blood. There are also going to be days when you’re sitting there saying, “I...
by Hillary DePiano | Oct 29, 2014 | Evergreen, NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month)
They’ll be writers who write much faster or slower than you do . Some writers will actually hit their entire 50,000 word count within the first day or so of the competition, their counts ballooning past 100 or even 200 thousand words. On the other side,...
Hillary DePiano is a playwright, fiction and non-fiction writer who loves writing of all kinds except for writing bios like this.
