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 30, 2016 | NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month), On Writing: Craft and Commiseration
Here’s what November 2016 looked like in writing… Yearly Goal 765,239/600,000 words (128%) <- we’ll discuss this at length in a future post Monthly Goal My original goal was to pass last year’s count of 117,716 but then I was like, haha, are you DAFT,...
by Hillary DePiano | Nov 29, 2016 | Evergreen, NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month)
I’m a volunteer with NaNoWriMo and it always amazes me how many participants are completely shocked to learn that NaNoWriMo isn’t completely flush with cash because everyone’s heard of them, haven’t they? It’s easy to get the idea in your...
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...
Hillary DePiano is a playwright, fiction and non-fiction writer who loves writing of all kinds except for writing bios like this.
