by Hillary DePiano | Apr 17, 2017 | Evergreen, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration
One of the first days after my husband’s parental leave ended, my parents offered to come over my house in the morning and watch both kids for me for a couple of hours so that I could have some time to myself. I was very excited. Sure, I’d have to still...
by Hillary DePiano | Apr 10, 2017 | Living the Writing Life, My Writing
Here’s what March 2017 looked like in writing… Total Words Written This Month 50,869 words Average Words Per Day 1,641 words Monthly Goal I didn’t set a goal since this was my first full month with the new baby and setting a goal seemed idiotic. Yearly Goal...
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 | Mar 27, 2017 | Evergreen, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration
Because of the newborn baby in my life, I’ve been looking for unconventional ways to get work done when I’m one-handed because I’m nursing, holding the baby or whatever. One of these experiments is the return of voice-to-text dictation which long...
by Hillary DePiano | Mar 4, 2017 | External Stimuli, Living the Writing Life
I haven’t talked about this online for a variety of reasons but you should know that all this time I’ve been blogging about this insanely stressful series of months I’ve been having, there’s been an additional complication on top of everything...
by Hillary DePiano | Feb 6, 2017 | Living the Writing Life
Welcome to another exciting update in which stuff is going on! Apparently we just blew through a whole month without my noticing which would worry me more if I wasn’t knee deep in the hoopla as those kids from Starship say (and by kids, I mean, probably senior...
Hillary DePiano is a playwright, fiction and non-fiction writer who loves writing of all kinds except for writing bios like this.
