by Hillary DePiano | Jun 6, 2017 | Living the Writing Life, My Writing, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration, Uncategorized
I was going to make the title of this post a play on May Day and then fell into a Wikipedia hole about May Day, the spring holiday, vs MayDay, the distress signal, and barely escaped so that’s why you got a boring title instead. The fact that it is already June...
by Hillary DePiano | May 31, 2017 | My Writing, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration
I’ve tried to write this post a dozen times already and gotten too annoyed to continue every time. Why? Pull up a chair, I’ll try to explain without rage-quitting this time. You know I strive for complete transparency in my writing process so join me for a...
by Hillary DePiano | May 5, 2017 | Living the Writing Life, My Writing
Multiple people told me they assumed I’d be taking the April session of Camp NaNoWriMo off this year because of the new baby and I was like, “Ha! Have you met me?” It would have been sensible and healthy to take Camp NaNoWriMo off after just having a...
by Hillary DePiano | Apr 10, 2017 | Living the Writing Life, My Writing
Here’s what March 2017 looked like in writing… Total Words Written This Month 50,869 words Average Words Per Day 1,641 words Monthly Goal I didn’t set a goal since this was my first full month with the new baby and setting a goal seemed idiotic. Yearly Goal...
by Hillary DePiano | Jan 14, 2017 | Living the Writing Life, My Writing
This is the latest I’ve ever posted one of these monthly updates because life is still a hurricane here in Duckburg but I wanted to pop out of the duck blur for a minute and give you my numbers for December. Here’s what December 2016 looked like in writing…...
by Hillary DePiano | Dec 23, 2016 | Living the Writing Life, My Writing, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration
2016 was a crap sandwich for just about everyone and I’m no exception. It was a crazy stressful year full of unexpected changes and pressures and so much of the future is still uncertain. But while 2016 felt like a big fat fail as I was living it, it actually...
Hillary DePiano is a playwright, fiction and non-fiction writer who loves writing of all kinds except for writing bios like this.
