by Hillary DePiano | Oct 27, 2014 | Evergreen, NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month)
You’ll have to make sacrifices and prioritize your writing. This comes as a shock to many people with dreams of writing anything at all so let’s just get this out there right now: Writing is work and it takes time. Maybe you have a job, kids and a variety...
by Hillary DePiano | Oct 26, 2014 | Evergreen, NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month)
Writing is easy. Writing is hard. You’ll hear two different voices throughout the month. “NaNoWriMo is so much fun!” say that people for whom it’s going well. Meanwhile, the people who are having trouble are complaining that NaNoWriMo is stupid,...
by Hillary DePiano | Oct 25, 2014 | Evergreen, NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month)
You’ll probably feel a overwhelmed, especially in the beginning. After all the anticipation, the beginning of NaNoWriMo can sometimes be killer on your creativity. You’ll be staring and that blank page with this feeling that all of your ideas have completely left you...
by Hillary DePiano | Apr 15, 2014 | External Stimuli, NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month), On Writing: Craft and Commiseration
No matter how badly this month is going (and I, too, am oh so behind) you’ve got to stick this Camp NaNoWriMo journey out until the very end because… …my pep talk won’t come out until the end of the month and if you quit early, you’ll...
by Hillary DePiano | Mar 25, 2014 | NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month)
At this point in the year, us NaNoWriMo alumni are all in very different places in our writing life. Some of you are undertaking my Editing Challenge and working towards getting that novel you wrote during NaNoWriMo ready for the world. Others are still finishing...
by Hillary DePiano | Nov 25, 2013 | Evergreen, NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month)
There is less than a week left in November. Thanksgiving is a mere four days away. December starts next Sunday. All of this means that we’re dangerously close to the end of NaNoWriMo. I know that some of you have already passed 50,000 and I want to assure you...
Hillary DePiano is a playwright, fiction and non-fiction writer who loves writing of all kinds except for writing bios like this.
