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NaNoWriMo alternatives to keep you writing in the off-season 

NaNoWriMo alternatives to keep you writing in the off-season 

by Hillary DePiano | Dec 8, 2023 | 4TheWords, Classes and Workshops, Evergreen, NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month), On Writing: Craft and Commiseration

Keeping the NaNoWriMo Spirit Going Year Round NaNoWriMo is over for another year but there is still plenty of writing still to do. To that end, here’s a list of resources that might serve you in the off-season. Of course, what you need from a post NaNoWriMo year...
Global Write-In Crawl: Double Up your NaNoWriMo word count and meet other writers from around the world!

Global Write-In Crawl: Double Up your NaNoWriMo word count and meet other writers from around the world!

by Hillary DePiano | Nov 4, 2022 | NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month)

What is the NaNoWriMo Global Write-In Crawl (GWIC)? TL; DR: The Global Write-In Crawl (GWIC) is an international, volunteer-run event held over the chat app Discord where writers from all over the world are invited to socialize and participate in “stops”...
NaNoWriMo Advanced Word Count Calculator (charts, percentages, stats and more!)

NaNoWriMo Advanced Word Count Calculator (charts, percentages, stats and more!)

by Hillary DePiano | Oct 7, 2020 | Evergreen, Living the Writing Life, NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month)

I know that some of you out there are as obsessive as me when it comes to trying to figure out how far along you are in National Novel Writing Month so I decided to share my personal calculator. It’s simple but powerful. This calculator will work in Open Office,...
On Writing & COVID (& Camp NaNoWriMo)

On Writing & COVID (& Camp NaNoWriMo)

by Hillary DePiano | Mar 31, 2020 | Living the Writing Life, NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month), Personally...

About a week ago, you couldn’t go online without someone reminding you that Shakespeare wrote King Lear during quarantine so you have no excuse not to write that novel now! And then somehow we’ve gone full circle from that to people saying that if you ARE...
NaNoWriMo Pep Talk: Winning Isn’t Everything

NaNoWriMo Pep Talk: Winning Isn’t Everything

by Hillary DePiano | Nov 22, 2019 | Evergreen, NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month), On Writing: Craft and Commiseration

NaNoWriMo is nearly over. Only 8 days until this whole wild challenge is behind us and we’re swept up in the holiday chaos that accelerates us all into the end of the year. I know some of you have already reached or even surpassed 50,000 words and I want you to know...
NaNoWriMo Pep Talk: It’s just your sloppy copy

NaNoWriMo Pep Talk: It’s just your sloppy copy

by Hillary DePiano | Nov 16, 2019 | NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month)

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Hillary DePiano is a playwright, fiction and non-fiction writer who loves writing of all kinds except for writing bios like this.
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