by Hillary DePiano | Jan 5, 2012 | NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month)
I promised everyone in my NaNoWriMo area that I’d take requests if there was a topic they wanted a blog post about. So, one intrepid Wrimo asked: Adjusting to life after NaNo is HARD. I’ll have to remember this icky feeling I’ve had all December for...
by Hillary DePiano | Dec 3, 2011 | NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month)
Do you miss the NaNoWriMo insanity? Do you find yourself bummed out that you don’t have a 50,000 word deadline hanging over your head? When your gym teacher asks you to sprint, do you burst into tears? Have you woken in the dead of night, the name “Chris...
by Hillary DePiano | Dec 1, 2011 | NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month)
If you passed the 50,000 word finish line and became an official NaNoWriMo winner, you’re riding high. It was so much fun to watch people all over the world celebrating their victories on Twitter, Tumblr and Facebook with animated GIFs, four letter words and...
by Hillary DePiano | Nov 29, 2011 | NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month)
To verify as a NaNoWriMo winner, you need to copy and paste your entire novel into the box that looks like the screenshot on the right. But you may be in trouble here if… You wrote your novel by hand. Your NaNoWriMo novel is spread out over multiple document...
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 28, 2011 | Announcements, NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month), Writing Advice and Resources
There isn’t much time left in National Novel Writing Month and you’ve found yourself behind on your quest for 50,000 words. You’ve got to write a whole lot of words in a very short time. How are you going to make up the deficit especially when you...
Hillary DePiano is a playwright, fiction and non-fiction writer who loves writing of all kinds except for writing bios like this.
