by Hillary DePiano | Dec 1, 2017 | Evergreen, NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month)
There are so many people on my social feeds right now talking about how much they miss writing now that NaNoWriMo is over and I know this is crazy but hear me out… what if you just kept writing? Like, what if you didn’t stop just because we flipped the...
by Hillary DePiano | Nov 26, 2017 | Evergreen, NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month)
There is less than a week before we emerge, blinking, into sparkling December. While a handful of you have already finished your novel and are now winding the month down, adding finishing touches and picking out the sweater you’ll wear in your author photo, the...
by Hillary DePiano | Nov 12, 2017 | Evergreen, NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month)
Wrimos, to be on pace, you should be hitting 20,000 words TODAY. If you’re not there yet, do not fret! There’s still plenty of time to hit 50,000 and beyond, you just gotta stick with it! We’re due at the halfway point by Wednesday and then...
by Hillary DePiano | Oct 31, 2017 | NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month)
Mere hours stand between us and the beginning of National Novel Writing Month. Whether you’re about to attempt your first novel or your fifty first, it’s going to be a wild ride of fun and productivity. As soon as the clock ticks over to November 1st,...
by Hillary DePiano | Jul 25, 2017 | Evergreen, NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month), On Writing: Craft and Commiseration
You can always tell when I’m catching up on my inbox when I do a lot of mailbag posts in a row. Relatedly, here’s another one: We met last year during NaNoWriMo (October 2016) in preparation for our arduous month ahead. Thanks for all the great info. I...
by Hillary DePiano | Jan 1, 2017 | Evergreen, NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month), On Writing: Craft and Commiseration
It’s a brand new year which means it’s the traditional time of setting new goals and resolutions for the year ahead. For us writers, that can mean setting deadlines or striving for new writing habits in the coming year. I think taking a few minutes to...
Hillary DePiano is a playwright, fiction and non-fiction writer who loves writing of all kinds except for writing bios like this.
