by Hillary DePiano | Jan 15, 2015 | Evergreen, My Writing, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration
My brain works in mysterious, often not particularly mainstream, ways. Every year, with NaNoWriMo, I sit down with the other writers and, when someone inevitably asks me what I’m writing, I get a response best described as, “Haha, very funny. What are you...
by Hillary DePiano | Jan 6, 2015 | Evergreen, NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month)
It’s been a little over a month since NaNoWriMo ended and we all parted ways for the holidays. Now that you’ve had the time to recover from your November writing hangover, you’re probably wondering… What do I do now with that novel I wrote for...
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...
Hillary DePiano is a playwright, fiction and non-fiction writer who loves writing of all kinds except for writing bios like this.
