by Hillary DePiano | Nov 19, 2013 | Evergreen, NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month)
Can you believe it? It’s Week Three. Thanksgiving is only 10 days away and we’re edging ever closer to the end of this 30 day journey. Many of you have already won and hundreds more are right on pace to cross the finish line on time. The rest of us,...
by Hillary DePiano | Nov 15, 2013 | Evergreen, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration, Uncategorized
If you’re going to write a novel in a month, heck, if you’re serious about any writing at all, you’re going to quickly realize that the only way to make it happen is to make your writing a priority in your life. If you don’t feel like it is or...
by Hillary DePiano | Nov 8, 2013 | Evergreen, NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month)
People always ask me for my tips for winning NaNoWriMo and one of my biggest is that you should make every effort to get ahead early and front load your word count. Here’s 5 reasons why: Use your excitement! The beginning of any new story is exciting. You’re...
by Hillary DePiano | Oct 31, 2013 | Evergreen, NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month), On Writing: Craft and Commiseration
(No time to read this? There’s a video/audio version here.) “Best of luck with your novel!” “Good luck with NaNoWriMo this year!” “Sorry you didn’t win last year but hopefully you’ll have better luck this year.”...
by Hillary DePiano | Jan 28, 2010 | Announcements, Evergreen, In Their Words, Living the Writing Life, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration
I wanted to take a moment to highlight this fantastic tweet from Anita Doreen Diggs. You can follow her on Twitter here @AnitaDiggs Finish your proposal (nonfiction) or manuscript (fiction) before worrying about agents, Kindles, e-books, the book tour, etc. There is...
by Hillary DePiano | Jun 6, 2006 | Evergreen, External Stimuli, In Their Words, Personally...
“It’s really not so good to have time. Rush, scramble, desperation, this missed, that left behind, those others too big to fit into such a small space–that’s the way life was meant to be. You’re supposed to be too late for some things....
Hillary DePiano is a playwright, fiction and non-fiction writer who loves writing of all kinds except for writing bios like this.
