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...
by Hillary DePiano | Dec 3, 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 neither their NaNoWriMo project nor...
by Hillary DePiano | Nov 25, 2016 | Evergreen, NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month)
At the moment I’m writing this, I’m 42,488 words behind on my goal for NaNoWriMo. On my lesser goal? I’m 24,772 words behind. Yeesh. That’s a big deficit. And if I can’t hit my goal, what’s the point of writing anymore at all? It...
by Hillary DePiano | Nov 14, 2016 | NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month), On Writing: Craft and Commiseration
I had a pep talk all ready for this week that was your standard NaNoWriMo stuff but I scrapped it because we’ve had anything but a standard NaNoWriMo this year and it’s silly to ignore the elephant in the room. (Pun intended.) How can IÂ be all “Rah...
by Hillary DePiano | Oct 28, 2016 | NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month), On Writing: Craft and Commiseration
Back in the day, I used to work for one of NaNoWriMo’s sponsors. We were encouraged to sign up for NaNoWriMo and try to participate so we understood what the event was about when customers came to us with questions. I dutifully signed up and joked about writing...