by Hillary DePiano | Nov 29, 2011 | Living the Writing Life, NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month)
How to validate as a NaNoWriMo winner Log into the NaNoWriMo site. Go to Edit Novel Info under My NaNoWriMo. Under the Word Count box, click I am ready to validate my novel. Paste your novel in the pop-up window and submit to verify. Don’t see that validate...
by Hillary DePiano | Nov 7, 2011 | External Stimuli, Living the Writing Life, Personally...
So, for posterity, we had a freakish out of season snowstorm on October 29th. Because there were still leaves on the trees, the snow pulled down many, many branches and whole trees. If you aren’t in the area, it’s really hard to explain just how massive...
by Hillary DePiano | Nov 1, 2011 | Living the Writing Life, NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month)
Heh. That title rhymes. NaNoWriMo buddies are a long standing tradition of National Novel Writing Month. Sometimes they take the feature down while relaunching the site but we always get them back before the competition really starts. To add any other NaNoWriMo user...
by Hillary DePiano | Jan 17, 2011 | Living the Writing Life, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration
I’m frequently asked how I work or how I get “so much done” (which I think is funny because I feel like I never get enough done) but I get the question enough that I feel like I should address it. A huge part of how I get anything done, especially in...
by Hillary DePiano | Nov 15, 2010 | External Stimuli, Living the Writing Life, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration
Inigo Montoya sits across from you at the coffee shop. He’s your novel critique partner. You’ve already given him your notes on his latest work. He wasn’t exactly pleased with your line edits. He actually said, “My name is Inigo Montoya. You...
by Hillary DePiano | Oct 28, 2010 | Living the Writing Life, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration
I realize I never talked about what I was going write for NaNoWriMo on this blog. Pretty funny, when you consider how much talking about NaNoWriMo I’ve been doing.First let’s talk about the projects I’m in the middle of:Editing: one nonfiction book,...
Hillary DePiano is a playwright, fiction and non-fiction writer who loves writing of all kinds except for writing bios like this.
