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 | Mar 29, 2017 | Evergreen, NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month)
Maybe you’ve heard of Camp NaNoWriMo (the smaller, spunky sister event to the big November writing extravaganza) and were underwhelmed by the idea. Or maybe you’ve been meaning to try it out for years but something always seems to come up. Either way, with...
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...
by Hillary DePiano | Dec 5, 2016 | Evergreen, NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month)
The following is an excerpt from NaNo What Now? Finding your editing process, revising your NaNoWriMo book and building a writing career through publishing and beyond Available now in paperback and eBook. To the writer that finished what you set out to write, You are...
by Hillary DePiano | Dec 4, 2016 | Evergreen, NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month)
The following is an excerpt from NaNo What Now? Finding your editing process, revising your NaNoWriMo book and building a writing career through publishing and beyond Available now in paperback and eBook. To the writer that reached their word count target but didn’t...
Hillary DePiano is a playwright, fiction and non-fiction writer who loves writing of all kinds except for writing bios like this.
