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December 2016: Tale of Tales / 4th Orange status report & update on personal chaos

December 2016: Tale of Tales / 4th Orange status report & update on personal chaos

by Hillary DePiano | Jan 14, 2017 | Living the Writing Life, My Writing

This is the latest I’ve ever posted one of these monthly updates because life is still a hurricane here in Duckburg but I wanted to pop out of the duck blur for a minute and give you my numbers for December.  Here’s what December 2016 looked like in writing…...
Want to do your own monthly writing recaps in 2017? Free graphics for you to use!

Want to do your own monthly writing recaps in 2017? Free graphics for you to use!

by Hillary DePiano | Jan 9, 2017 | Living the Writing Life, Uncategorized

Regular readers know I do a monthly debrief of how my writing is going and have found it incredibly helpful in auditing my writing work and keeping me on track. I also make a silly little graphic for each month to serve as a title image for easy sharing on social...
Manage multiple writing projects & keep your word count on track with this writers yearly goal system

Manage multiple writing projects & keep your word count on track with this writers yearly goal system

by Hillary DePiano | Jan 3, 2017 | Evergreen, Living the Writing Life, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration

By popular request, I’m reposting this updated for 2017. It’s exactly the same as last year, only the dates are updated in the spreadsheet (I didn’t update the screenshots, so sue me). I do have a slightly different system I’m personally using...
How did 2016 stack up compared to past writing years?

How did 2016 stack up compared to past writing years?

by Hillary DePiano | Jan 3, 2017 | Living the Writing Life

I’ve been setting a writing goal for the year and keeping track of exactly how much I write every day and on what project for six years now. While I’ve changed exactly what I’ve tracked and how I’ve tracked it over the years, the basic day by...
Setting smaller, specific goals with wiggle room is the secret to good writing resolutions

Setting smaller, specific goals with wiggle room is the secret to good writing resolutions

by Hillary DePiano | Jan 1, 2017 | Evergreen, NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month), On Writing: Craft and Commiseration

It’s a brand new year which means it’s the traditional time of setting new goals and resolutions for the year ahead. For us writers, that can mean setting deadlines or striving for new writing habits in the coming year. I think taking a few minutes to...

Amazon Kindle owner? Here’s which of my books you can read for free right now

by Hillary DePiano | Dec 25, 2016 | Announcements, Living the Writing Life

It’s the holiday season, which means many people unwrapped a brand new eReader in the last few days. If one of those gifts was an Amazon Kindle, Fire or a new phone or tablet compatible with the free Kindle App (which is just about all of them), this is your...
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Hillary DePiano is a playwright, fiction and non-fiction writer who loves writing of all kinds except for writing bios like this.

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