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 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 | Mar 27, 2013 | NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month), Playwriting and Theatre
As we discussed at length last week, Script Frenzy has been cancelled and I was annoyed but I’ve come to peace with it. But when one door closes, another opens and I’m excited to keep the Screnzy alive unofficially through Camp NaNoWriMo. But before we get...
by Hillary DePiano | Mar 18, 2013 | Living the Writing Life, NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month), Playwriting and Theatre
By now most of you will have heard the news but for those that haven’t: Script Frenzy has been cancelled. I promised you back in this post that we’d discuss this more and I haven’t yet because, frankly, the whole thing leaves a terrible taste in my...
by Hillary DePiano | Nov 28, 2012 | NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month)
You don’t have enough words to reach 50,000 yet. Maybe you finished your story before you hit your target word count. Maybe you’re just feeling word weary and can’t seem to make your characters DO anything. Or maybe you’ve already hit 50,000...
Hillary DePiano is a playwright, fiction and non-fiction writer who loves writing of all kinds except for writing bios like this.
