by Hillary DePiano | Jan 6, 2015 | Evergreen, NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month)
It’s been a little over a month since NaNoWriMo ended and we all parted ways for the holidays. Now that you’ve had the time to recover from your November writing hangover, you’re probably wondering… What do I do now with that novel I wrote for...
by Hillary DePiano | Nov 26, 2014 | Evergreen, NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month)
“Stop looking at the mountain of words you’ve yet to write. You climb even the steepest path one step at a time and that’s how you’re going to reach your goal: word by word.” -Hillary DePiano That quote above is from a pep talk I did for Camp...
by Hillary DePiano | Nov 24, 2014 | External Stimuli, In Their Words, Me, but Elsewhere, NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month)
One thing we’ve just got to discuss before NaNoWriMo ends is the fact that Writer’s Digest actually did a whole issue devoted to NaNoWriMo. It was even the cover story! The whole issue was packed with tips about writing a novel in a month and support for...
by Hillary DePiano | Nov 17, 2014 | Evergreen, NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month)
I was one of the NaNoWriMo pep talkers for the April 2014 Session of Camp and I never got to share that full pep talk here. While my focus in April was on rebels and everyone doing something other than a novel, the basics of this talk absolutely apply to everyone...
by Hillary DePiano | Nov 13, 2014 | Living the Writing Life, NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month)
I was in a NaNoWriMo write-in last night when, suddenly, my novel ended. We were doing a word sprint and I couldn’t think of what scene came next (because, while I didn’t outline, I did formulate a list of scenes I thought might appear somewhere just to...
by Hillary DePiano | Nov 11, 2014 | Living the Writing Life, NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month), On Writing: Craft and Commiseration
I don’t know how to write this blog post without sounding like a jerk but here goes. I’m ahead on NaNoWriMo. Like, really ahead. And this is going to sound like bragging but it’s really just a statement of fact: I’m ahead and I’m not even...
Hillary DePiano is a playwright, fiction and non-fiction writer who loves writing of all kinds except for writing bios like this.
